CITYWATCH TODAY—I have a small handwritten reminder on my desk. It says: ‘Remember what you stand for … Every Day!’ It’s another way of saying, ‘you have to draw a line.’ There has to be a marker in each of our lives. Nothing is getting past this point. Ever. It’s who I am. It’s what I stand for.
As a nation, one of those lines has to be allowing advertising onto the hills and into rivers and magical beauty that is America’s national parks. No Del Taco billboards in the middle of the meadow. Or, on a Yosemite mountain top. Or, on a Blue Ridge canyon wall.
This is an alert! There are those who don’t stand for much who have secretly passed legislation that will permit advertising in our national parks. Jon Queally explains … in Today’s CityWatch. Read it. Then draw a line!
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Meanwhile, even closer to home, the bill for transforming the LA River keeps spiraling. Now up to $7 billion. That’s a ‘b’. Jack Humphreville wonders who’s in charge? When will the costs stop climbing? Where’s the money? The projection was less than $2 billion just a few short years ago. Jack Humphreville sounds the alarm … in Today’s CityWatch.
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Former HOR Speaker Tip O’Neil is most closely associated with the time-worn advisory: ‘All politics is local.’ But, as it happens, we agree with Mr. O’Neil. Beginning this week, with the help and wisdom of the Publisher of The Neighborhood News, Dianne Lawrence … we will provide a new section in CityWatch … Neighborhood Politics. Want to know what LA thinks? That’s where it’s all happening. In LA’s 126 neighborhoods. Get the lowdown on your town, starting right now … in CityWatch. (Top of right column … front page.) Then … tell us what’s happening in your corner of LA. And, we’ll tell everyone else. It’s what CityWatch does. Provides you with a voice!
Ken Draper-Editor, CityWatch
Editor@CityWatchLA.com
