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. Antonio's challenge The city cries out for leadership and commitment. This is not the time for Antonio Villaraigosa Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio (Tony) Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. to try to coast to victory. It is the time for him to step up and meet the challenge. Turning point The change in top management at the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. could be a crisis. Or it could be seen as an opportunity to make real changes at the flagging district. Liability hole The winter storms and the city's lax LAX - LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. record on repaving streets and fixing potholes is hurting resident's vehicles - and their pocketbooks. Case (almost) closed The public-relations firm Fleishman-Hillard has taken responsibility for its part in overbilling the city for services not rendered with an apology apology [Gr.,=defense], literary work that defends, justifies, or clarifies an author's ideas or point of view. Unlike the ordinary use of the word, the literary use neither implies that wrong has been done nor expresses regret. and nearly $6 million in restitution In the context of Criminal Law, state programs under which an offender is required, as a condition of his or her sentence, to repay money or donate services to the victim or society; with respect to maritime law, the restoration of articles lost by jettison, done when the . But integrity won't be restored to City Hall until city officials do the same. |
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