BRIEFLY VALLEY DEM GROUP BACKS HERTZBERG.While other local Democratic Party organizations deadlocked over Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. mayoral endorsements, the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Young Democrats are supporting former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg for the job, a spokesman said Monday. The Valley organization plans to provide volunteers and commit part of its $13,000 annual operating budget to the Hertzberg campaign, said David Phelps, president of the group. Last week the Los Angeles County Democratic Party and the Los Angeles County Young Democrats split over a mayoral endorsement. Hertzberg, a Democrat from Sherman Oaks, is running against Mayor James Hahn, Council members Antonio Villaraigosa and Bernard Parks, state Sen. Richard Alarcon and several minor candidates in the March 8 primary. - Daily News New national park to be considered Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bill Monday to require a study of whether a corridor that includes the mountains around the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys should become a national park. The legislation would direct the Interior Department to study potential effects on the region's landowners and wildlife, including endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. of plants and animals Plants and Animals are a Canadian indie-rock band from Montreal, comprised of guitarist-vocalists Warren Spicer and Nic Basque, and drummer-vocalist Matthew Woodley.[1] They are signed to Secret City Records. . The researchers also would evaluate possible connections for the trail system in the region, known as the Rim of the Valley, and historically significant landscapes, sites and structures. The area includes the mountains surrounding the Simi, La Crescenta and Conejo valleys, as well as the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys. Feinstein said the land is unique because of its Mediterranean-type ecosystem and because of its wildlife corridor, which stretches north from the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. . - City News Service Task force to fight human trafficking A coalition of federal, state and local agencies Monday announced the formation of a task force to battle human trafficking that the Los Angeles police chief, William Bratton, called ``tantamount to slavery.'' The task force was established to ``bring together law enforcement and community-based organizations to put an end to to destroy. - Fuller. See also: End the horrible crime of human trafficking,'' U.S. Attorney Debra Yang said at a news conference in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . - City News Service |
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