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 dailynews.com. Bonds bonanza After years of bonds in 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. , we're mortgaged to the hilt, and borrowed money isn't free. Clearing the streets It's ironic, even a little sick, how Los Angeles leaders prattle on about the need to take care of the homeless - while at the same time having the denizens of Skid Row skid row a run-down area frequented by alcoholics. [Am. Culture: Misc.] See : Alcoholism Skid Row district of down-and-outs and bums. [Am. Usage: Brewer Dictionary, 1008] See : Failure arrested in order to chase them out of downtown. Saving the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) 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 put forward the first genuine LAUSD reform measure, moving the debate forward. Working for peanuts The elephants at the L.A. Zoo do better under the mayor's new budget plan than do the people of Los Angeles. |
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