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. Don't blame teachers If, as school board President Marlene Canter suggests, the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) isn't to blame for its woes, then who is? Teachers? We think not. Tough sell 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. is going to have a tough time convincing L.A. homeowners that more than doubling trash-collection fees is a good idea. Fare hoax Talk of fare hikes has no place in the discussion over the future of mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a in L.A. Less for more 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. City Councilmen Tony Cardenas and Greig Smith couldn't have picked a worse time to announce their plans for a property-tax hike to fund road repairs. |
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