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. Overlooking oversight Members of the Los Angeles Unified School District's bond oversight committee get no respect from school officials who leave them out of the process. But they haven't done much to deserve any. Airport Arrogance State Sen. Richard Alarcon has come up with an LAX plan that's ambitious, bold and forward-thinking. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , a plan that's nothing like Mayor James Hahn's. Hahn's shortfall Of all the problems that Los Angeles faces, the most serious in terms of its impact on the lives of ordinary people is the squandering squan·der tr.v. squan·dered, squan·der·ing, squan·ders 1. To spend wastefully or extravagantly; dissipate. See Synonyms at waste. 2. of the public treasury during the tenure of Mayor James Hahn. R.I.P. Rampart The last chapter in the overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. Rampart police scandal ended when prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against three officers. Still, the taint taint an unpleasant odor and flavor in a human foodstuff of animal origin. Caused by the ingestion of the substance, commonly a plant such as Hexham scent, or while in storage, e.g. milk stored with pineapples, or as a result of animal metabolism, e.g. boar taint. of the scandal will live on through the consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. . |
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