EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past weekSeize away The L.A. City Council has decided that the best way to fight various social ills - drug use, prostitution prostitution, act of granting sexual access for payment. Although most commonly conducted by females for males, it may be performed by females or males for either females or males. , dumping trash, street racing and now drunk driving - is to seize property and trample the Bill of Rights. Strike two Questions about the Hahn administration's ethical failings won't end with the long-overdue departure of ex-Airport Commissioner Ted Stein or the mayor's belated be·lat·ed adj. Having been delayed; done or sent too late: a belated birthday card. [be- + lated. embrace of fund-raising fund-raising, large-scale soliciting of voluntary contributions, especially in the United States. Fund-raising is widely undertaken by charitable organizations, educational institutions, and political groups to acquire sufficient funds to support their activities. reforms. Paying for pensions The numbers behind the state pension crisis are staggering, and they make for a telling tale about the blunders of the administration of Gov. Gray Davis - blunders that will burden taxpayers for decades. Hahn's folly folly In architecture, an eccentric, generally nonfunctional (and often deliberately unfinished) structure erected to enhance a romantic landscape. Follies were particularly in vogue in England in the 18th and early 19th century. Apparently Mayor James Hahn's office is a protected lair, utterly detached from reality. How else can one explain his cockamamie, $9.1 billion plan to ``modernize'' Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX ? |
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