EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past week Ten years after In the 10 years since the Rodney King Rodney Glen King (born April 9, 1965 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an African-American taxicab driver who was beaten by Los Angeles Police Department officers (Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno and Sargent Stacey Koon) after being chased for speeding. riots, both South Central 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. and the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. have experienced a remarkable renewal. We still have a ways to go, but we've come a long way since April 29, 1992. Hahn's 10th month In April, Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California showed he has a sense of the sort of large, systemic reforms L.A. needs. Yet so far he seems interested only in taking baby steps. The grade on his monthly report card: C. Kids pay the bill LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Superintendent Roy Romer helped engineer the district's current fiscal crisis by dishing out excessive and expensive pay raises during most of his first two years in office. Now the LAUSD is short on cash and it's the kids who are paying the price for his mistakes. Sign language What the City Council is trying to pass off as a ``ban'' on new billboards is little more than a new set of loopholes. |
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