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. Sane reaction NIMBYism is a sane reaction to powerlessness. And 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. , neighborhoods learned years ago that there was little else they could do when capricious capricious adv., adj. unpredictable and subject to whim, often used to refer to judges and judicial decisions which do not follow the law, logic or proper trial procedure. A semi-polite way of saying a judge is inconsistent or erratic. decisions came down from City Hall. Security concerns In the three years since the 9-11 terrorist attacks shook our sense of security, the federal government has doled out Adj. 1. doled out - given out in portions apportioned, dealt out, meted out, parceled out distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up billions to state and local governments across the county. Much of it has been misspent mis·spend tr.v. mis·spent , mis·spend·ing, mis·spends To spend improperly or extravagantly; squander: misspent the funds; misspent their youth. . Traffic crisis It's long past time that Southern California's political leaders showed that they are willing, ready and committed to dealing with the region's ever-worsening traffic crisis. Another 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 raid Once again, officials in L.A. City Hall find themselves short on cash to fulfill their responsibilities to the public, and, once again, they're making up for it by raiding the Department of Water and Power. |
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