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. Self-serving council While the L.A. City Council won't put street repairs that affect everyone on the November ballot, it leaped to ask L.A. voters to water down council term limits, something that affects only its members. Power freaks Apparently token community empowerment is more democracy than the City Council can stomach. For the kids' sake Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. can spend his last few weeks as 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. superintendent helping to shape reform for the benefit of parents, students and teachers. City Hall's fig leaf Given how easily the City Council has thwarted thwart tr.v. thwart·ed, thwart·ing, thwarts 1. To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of: They thwarted her plans. 2. the City Ethics Commission In the United States, an Ethics Commission is a commission established by State law to discourage dishonest practices by their public employees and elected officials. Almost all American states have such a commission. , it seems pointless to even have the agency at all. |
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