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Metro board approves Crenshaw Line's Leimert Park Village station
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved $80 million for an underground train station in Leimert Park Village along the Crenshaw Line, ending two years of uncertainty over the station's future. The motion, sponsored by L.A....
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles International Airport
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City Council approves final Villaraigosa budget of $7.7 billion
The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday unanimously approved Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s final budget, expanding key services as several members acknowledged that many city workers will likely get a 5.5% raise in eight months. Councilman Eric...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Eric Garcetti, Medical Procedures and Tests, Bankruptcy, Collective Contract
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L.A. mayor: Villaraigosa, Garcetti promise 'seamless transition'
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa began the formal transition of power to his successor Thursday, hosting Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti for breakfast at Getty House, where he told reporters that the city councilman had his “full support.”...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Wendy Greuel, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Local Government
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RPT-Los Angeles' new mayor: hipster, Rhodes Scholar, budget fixer?
Reuters(Repeats with no changes to story) By Sharon Bernstein and Tim Reid LOS ANGELES, May 22 (Reuters) - A Rhodes Scholar and urban planning wonk in a city that generally prefers its politicians to be less eclectic, Los Angeles mayor-elect Eric Garcetti will...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Budgets and Budgeting, Local Elections, Eric Garcetti, Civil and Public Service
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Carmen Trutanich's defeat sown in a broken pledge
The seeds of one-term Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's resounding election defeat Tuesday were planted in his ill-fated run for district attorney last year. The candidate himself acknowledged that with less than a quarter of the ballots counted....
Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Eric Garcetti, Carmen Trutanich, Justice System
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Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor
In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, Civil and Public Service, Paul Koretz
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Monica Ratliff, the 5th-grade teacher who schooled L.A.'s campaign 'experts'
The Times' editorial board endorsed 5th-grade teacher Monica Ratliff for a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District board -- twice -- but that doesn’t mean we expected her to win. Ratliff went into Tuesday dubbed the underdog by a mile,...
Tags: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Political Fundraising
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Los Angeles mayor-elect vows to put recession in rear-view mirror
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Councilman Eric Garcetti declared victory Wednesday in his bid to become the next mayor and vowed to put the city's economic slump "in the rear-view mirror," capping a race shaped by dire fiscal forecasts and...Tags: Lawyers, Eric Garcetti, Ethics, Values, Carmen Trutanich
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L.A. Mayor-elect Garcetti to put laser focus on economy
In his first public appearance post-victory, Los Angeles Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti thanked voters for believing “that an independent mayor was worth voting for.” "Real grass-roots enthusiasm trumps money, trumps endorsements, trumps...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Local Government
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Monica Ratliff's election to L.A. school board is 'huge upset'
On its face, the election this week of a Los Angeles fifth-grade teacher to the Board of Education was a stunner. Monica Ratliff's low-budget effort included her boyfriend, a film school instructor, as her campaign manager. She had no paid staff and no...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Michael Antonovich , Eli Broad, Minority Groups, Finance
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Antonio Sanchez concedes L.A. school board race to Monica Ratliff
Antonio Sanchez has conceded to Monica Ratliff in the contest to represent the east San Fernando Valley on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Sanchez congratulated Ratliff in a Facebook posting. "Her commitment to the children of this district is...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Bell City Council
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Mayor's race: Garcetti's lead over Greuel widens to 8 points
With more than half of precincts reporting, City Councilman Eric Garcetti's lead over mayoral opponent Wendy Greuel widened to 8 points in the early hours of Wednesday morning. As of 1 a.m. PDT Wednesday, Garcetti led Greuel 54% to 46% in the race to...
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