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Category Archives: Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles Stadium
With the opening of the Los Angeles Auto Show this weekend, I expected more discussion of the impact of football games on future attendance. The auto show occupies the Convention Center over two weekends in the heart of the NFL … Continue reading
The end of rail transit in Los Angeles
A few months ago Los Angeles celebrated the opening of the Expo line from downtown toward the ocean (it will take a few more years). Now, in an effort to reduce the number of free riders (the subway and surface … Continue reading
Shootings in Auroura CO and elsewhere
The tragic shootings in Colorado once again bring violence to the forefront of the daily news cycle, but the daily shootings all across the country go on without much real notice. There are a few examples where people are trying … Continue reading
Maintenance cost for Los Angeles Blue Line
The Blue Line (light rail from downtown LA to Long Beach — 55min trip, one way via Blue Line) is about 20 years old is experiencing an increase in maintenance costs. No one should be surprised that the Blue Line … Continue reading
California Bullet Train
The long saga of the California Bullet train continues. A little history: CA passed a bond issue to borrow to build a very specific version of a high speed train, primarily between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The original presentation … Continue reading
Obama, Los Angeles, and Traffic
Obama made a brief visit to Los Angeles (actually mostly he was in West Hollywood, which is a different city) and the local news mostly focused on traffic issues. This happened one day after many more streets were closed for … Continue reading
Amazon and Sales Taxes (California Edition)
While Amazon might have an argument about its presence in California when talking about its association to a web site hosted in Ohio owned by a resident of California, once it has entered the California referendum process its presence in … Continue reading
James “Whitey” Bulger arrested in Santa Monica
James “Whitey” Bulger was hiding in plain sight for maybe the last 15 years in Santa Monica, not far from the Los Angeles office of the FBI. The parallels with the last top 10 most wanted to be found (Osama … Continue reading
Lack of Answers to Questions About a Downtown NFL Stadium
The failure of the Los Angeles city analysts to answer some of the questions from Councilman Rosendahl before contract negotiations may be understandable, but the inability to answer one particular question is absurd: What other convention centers have stadiums attached? … Continue reading
Supreme Court Orders Reduction in California Prison Population
It really isn’t an order to release 33,000 inmates, it is an order to reduce the population over the next 2 (or more) years. The real problem is that California has to release 33,000 more inmates over a short time … Continue reading