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. Hahn's 'outrage' The federal grand jury indictment of recently discharged Fleishman-Hillard executive John Stoddard seems to have surprised no one but 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. 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 . Bad investment There's a reason why developers want a $160 million subsidy to build a Convention Center hotel in downtown L.A., and that's because they know a bad investment when they see one. Why don't city leaders? Pageantry and protest Inaugural festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. and protests both serve important purposes, but once the dust has settled, 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 to lay the gloating, the sour grapes Grapes - A Modula-like system description language. E-mail: <peter@cadlab.cadlab.de>. ["GRAPES Language Description. Syntax, Semantics and Grammar of GRAPES-86", Siemens Nixdorf Inform, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-8009-4112-0]. and everything in between to rest. Political vipers In the theater of Los Angeles politics, it's much more instructive to pay attention to what politicians do than to what they say. The city's approach to financing the hiring of some new cops is a case in point. |
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