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. Great expectations When you strip away the energy Mayor 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. has brought to the job and his outgoing personality, nothing is yet visible to suggest that substantive change is really going to take place. Political madness City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel Wendy Greuel is President Pro Tempore of the Los Angeles City Council representing the 2nd District. Greuel was elected in 2002 to fill the remainder of the term of Councilman Joel Wachs. She was elected in her own right in 2003 and reelected in 2007. is right to demand that city officials commit to ensuring that local projects get the necessary local funding. We can only hope that her calls are heard in City Hall. Financial tsunami The handful of experts who have for years warned about the state of California's public pension system now must feel something like all those long-ignored experts who predicted the destruction in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . A deficit of courage When the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. agreed to give exorbitant pay raises to Department of Water and Power employees, it didn't even pretend to grapple with to enter into contest with, resolutely and courageously.See also: Grapple the issue or show some backbone. |
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