EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past week: Remembering 9-11 It shouldn't take a high-powered investigation to show us that the government dropped the ball on terrorism before 9-11; that's obvious. And the purpose of the 9-11 Commission isn't to discover the obvious - or to politicize po·lit·i·cize v. po·lit·i·cized, po·lit·i·ciz·ing, po·lit·i·ciz·es v.intr. To engage in or discuss politics. v.tr. tragedy. City Hall shake-up Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California might not be able to recognize the recent rash of resignations among his office staff as a sign of things going wrong in his administration, but clearly this is more than just a bump in the road. Clean house 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. City Council's decision to halt a proposed DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection water rate hike - for now - amounts to a vote of no confidence in the utility's management. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for the council to begin fixing what's broken at the DWP. Passing the buck Mayor Hahn's attempt to blame all of the city's budget problems on cuts in state funding is disingenuous at best, and a flat-out lie at worst. |
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