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. Turning L.A. around He still has nearly two weeks to go before he so much as takes office. He still lacks the mayor's staff, power or clout. Yet already, 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. is acting positively mayoral. Corrupting cor·rupt adj. 1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved. 2. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor. 3. influence Why do L.A. politicians and special interests routinely skirt, flout flout v. flout·ed, flout·ing, flouts v.tr. To show contempt for; scorn: flout a law; behavior that flouted convention. See Usage Note at flaunt. v.intr. or outright ignore campaign-finance laws? Because they can. Winner takes all The special election that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (German pronunciation (IPA): [ˈaɐ̯nɔlt ˈaloɪ̯s ˈʃvaɐ̯ʦənˌʔɛɡɐ] has called for Nov. 8 isn't so much about any of the issues on the ballot as it is about the ultimate high-stakes power game going on in Sacramento. Fugitive justice Mexico and the U.S. must revise their extradition extradition (ĕkstrədĭsh`ən), delivery of a person, suspected or convicted of a crime, by the state where he has taken refuge to the state that asserts jurisdiction over him. treaty, with American officials using whatever leverage at their disposal - political, diplomatic or economic - to extract concessions from their Mexican counterparts. |
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