PUBLIC FORUM AFTER THE ELECTION.I think that if secession fails on Nov. 5, I still believe people living in the Valley would have done a lot to make our city a strong force. First of all, they will have five city council seats located entirely in the Valley. There will still be Neighborhood Councils Neighborhood councils are governmental or non-governmental bodies composed of local people who handle neighborhood problems. They can be found in many cities throughout the world. in which they should enlist and present a strong and active civic presence. After all, the new charter movement was basically an attempt by the rest of 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. to assuage as·suage tr.v. as·suaged, as·suag·ing, as·suag·es 1. To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. See Synonyms at relieve. 2. the unhappiness of the Valley people. I just can't believe that with council and neighborhood groupings, it would not have enough power to be really heard. The Valley should organize and protest and demand just like the Westside, the Eastside and the South Side have done for years. - John F. Mendez Los Angeles DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection spending Sometimes I find it hard to believe the L.A. Department of Water and Power lives in the same universe. They spend more than $6 million a year of our money on public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most ? To what end? According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. DWP's Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive , Frank Salas, DWP is worried it may lose its monopoly, so they must tax us through higher utility rates to make sure we dumb ratepayers know that having a choice of providers would be a bad thing? Is this from an episode of ``The Twilight Zone twilight zone - [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live. An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". ?'' - Joel R. Price Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Wrong project Re ``Ahmanson report pleases developer'' (Sept. 25): Ventura County and Ahmanson Ranch consultants have projections of 37,500 new car trips on the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. . You think traffic is already heavy? This was the projection in 1992. Come on, Ventura County supervisors. Make a decision with all the facts. With hundreds of new homes in Camarillo, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks, Westlake, Agoura, Calabasas and the West Valley, traffic on the 101 Corridor is already saturated. Your decision affects all of us. Ahmanson Ranch is simply the wrong project at the wrong place at the wrong time - affordable housing at $500,000 a home. - Alan Heukrodt Calabasas Importing poverty Re ``Poverty soars 56% in Valley'' (Sept. 25): Until recently, I resided for 41 years in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . I am no expert on economics nor demographics, but I have news for Daniel Flaming, the economics expert. Since 1965, the U.S. has been importing poverty legally and illegally from Third World countries by millions every year. One does not need to be an expert to realize that poverty will take hold in U.S. communities with mass immigration immigration, entrance of a person (an alien) into a new country for the purpose of establishing permanent residence. Motives for immigration, like those for migration generally, are often economic, although religious or political factors may be very important. of poor people. Jobs are being sent out overseas, we buy everything from China and other countries, while we are importing poor people. Why can't anybody connect the dots in this problem? The San Fernando Valley is not the only place in the U.S. where poverty is increasing. - Haydee Pavia Laguna Woods Crowded classrooms I attended an elementary school elementary school: see school. Back to School night which is supposed to outline the hope and promise for the upcoming school year. I have a child in fourth grade. I was informed that all fourth- and fifth-grade classes in LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) with fewer than 30 to 36 students will be dissolved and folded into other classrooms to maximize budget constraints by Oct. 4. Learning in a classroom of that size is unrealistic at best. Why is the district promoting overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. in classrooms? Children are enthusiastically settling into the school year. Don't turn their world upside down for a few temporary absent students. Please revisit your $500 million budget surplus and put some common sense on your solution. - Elizabeth Jayson Lake Balboa Change in operators Re the letter from Councilwoman Ruth Galanter (``Kids are too important'' Public Forum, Sept. 22): The Madrid Theatre sits in an area that is undergoing a long overdue face lift, the Sherman Way corridor of Canoga Park. I have been disappointed by the lack of smooth operations and productions from the Madrid and its current city management. Currently, three community nonprofits are involved in the process of deciding who will operate the facility on a yearly basis. Recently I attended the opening of the Canoga Park Arts Center, less than a block away from the Madrid, which supports youth-orientated programs. A revitalized Madrid Theatre will only enhance such efforts in my district. My goal is to improve the quality of life in the 3rd District, and a change in operators at the Madrid Theatre will accomplish just that. - Dennis P. Zine Dennis P. Zine is a Los Angeles City Councilman of Lebanese descent and represents the city's 3rd Council District. The 3rd District includes: Woodland Hills, Tarzana, Reseda, West Hills, Winnetka and Canoga Park. Councilman Los Angeles Bush's media blitz President Bush is on a media blitz with ``smoke and mirrors'' saying that Saddam is our biggest threat to our homeland security. You don't have to be a Harvard military genius to figure out that half the countries in the Mideast are training or financing terrorist cells against the U.S., the biggest country being Saudi Arabia. So why are we getting ready to deploy all our resources on one overt action against a small target like Iraq? We should be keeping our military mouth shut and covertly go after all the bad guys, no matter what country they're in, just like Bush said right after 9-11. - Ted Pearson Valencia Not stand idle Since when is a leader of a country not granted the right to freedom of speech? Expressing a feeling about something as important as war should not have punishing consequences. President Bush is acting childish to be so peeved peeve tr.v. peeved, peev·ing, peeves To cause to be annoyed or resentful. See Synonyms at annoy. n. 1. A vexation; a grievance. 2. by German Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder's criticism of his war plans. When Dick Cheney stated his plans for war in late August, I felt as if I were a German in the late 1930s seeing his country changing and not knowing what to do to stop it. I am not taken by Bush's phony nationalism. My nation does not destroy countries without provocation. I will not stand idly by as Bush and Cheney try to take over the world. - Mary Moody Los Angeles Ignoring facts Re Rick Kellis' Sept. 26 Public Forum letter ``People's Choice'': I have just about had it with these liberals who seem to ignore the facts. Al Gore did not win the election. George Bush won the election. The Supreme Court did not ``select'' our president. President Bush won the election through the electoral college electoral college, in U.S. government, the body of electors that chooses the president and vice president. The Constitution, in Article 2, Section 1, provides: "Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, system. Yet, you liberals still ignore the facts, even though all the recounts confirmed the result. Get over it. I thank God Gore did not win. He does not even know who he is. He does not even come close to having the character and resolve of our president. - Robert Kunz Canoga Park Third choice Yikes yikes interj. Used to express mild fear or surprise. [Origin unknown.] , the two major candidates for governor are unappealing. If only there were a third choice, someone who cares more for the voters than the corporate donors. Oh, wait. There is. His name is Peter Miguel Camejo of the Green Party. A poll in Sacramento says that 69 percent of the voters want to hear Camejo in the gubernatorial debate. Whatever happened to letting the people decide? - Patrick Meighan Los Angeles Symptoms and causes Early in my life I entered into a career of trouble shooting. And early on I learned of the pitfalls of mistaking surface symptoms for basic causes. Curing a symptom is sometimes politically attractive but is mostly ineffective and can be costly. In a war it can be catastrophic. Query: Is Saddam Hussein a symptom of an underlying cause? Of course he is, and we better make very, very sure what the underlying cause is and fix it before we get into a hideous situation. - Gene Lica Tarzana |
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