EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Poverty capital While the latest numbers reflect increasing poverty nationwide, nowhere is the problem more severe or pronounced than in 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. . And that's the result of city policies that have subsidized destitution des·ti·tu·tion n. 1. Extreme want of resources or the means of subsistence; complete poverty. 2. A deprivation or lack; a deficiency. Noun 1. for decades. 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 housecleaning house·clean·ing n. 1. The cleaning and tidying of a house and its contents. 2. Informal Removal of unwanted personnel, methods, or policies in an effort at reform or improvement. The Department of Water and Power is the people of Los Angeles' most valuable asset, but the political process has corrupted the DWP to the point that a complete overhaul is in order. Who's laughing now? The nation cheered and applauded California's governor Wednesday night, just as it laughed at him, the state and the recall campaign last fall. What a difference a year makes! A hopeful America Like all political conventions, the Republicans' gathering in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of last week was designed to put their candidate in the best possible light. And on Thursday, they achieved their goal. |
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