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 got even brighter on the 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.  Department of Building and Safety after the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
 reported that the former president of the Board of Building and Safety Commissions had voted three times to approve permits for an engineering firm that was paying at least $10,000 annually to a company he headed. Critics said that Efren Abratique should have recused himself from the votes involving Psomas Inc. over an apparent conflict of interest. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872.  had already promised to review unrelated reports that the department was giving special treatment to political insiders by speeding their projects through the review process.
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Title Annotation:News of the Week
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1U9CA
Date:Aug 14, 2006
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