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What’s Really Behind the Collusive Settlement of LAUSD Strike

FIRST PERSON-The collusive settlement of the UTLA-LAUSD strike just announced on the morning of January 22 by LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner, UTLA's President Alex Caputo-Pearl, and LA Mayor Eric Garcetti predictably fails to consider the real reasons for LAUSD's longstanding failure to educate its predominantly minority and still segregated student population.

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David Ryu vs City Hall Corruption

CORRUPTION WATCH--Before the FBI's widening corruption probe of L.A. leaders erupted, Los Angeles City Councilmember David Ryu tried two years ago to cripple the undue influence of developers at City Hall -- by banning campaign cash developers give to the City Council. 

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Venice Blvd Reconfiguration is ‘Decided Behind Closed Doors’ ... By Those Who Promised Transparency

ALPERN AT LARGE--The other shoe has dropped. After more than a year of Mar Vistans asking, begging, and sending motion after motion for data, open houses, the ability to address the issues, it was announced in a very private meeting with the leaders of the Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC) and a few key CD11 staffers that the Venice Blvd. Reconfiguration is FINAL. 

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The Wall the Wuss, and the Deal

EASTSIDER-If the President is going to shut down the entire government over a Wall, he faces two problems. First the wall isn’t big enough, and second, he is a provably incompetent negotiator. As for the Wuss part... 

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