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Beyond the Ballot Box: Neighborhood Council 2012 Election Wrap-Up 31 Dec 2012 | 03:28 pm
CityWatch, Dec 4, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 97 EMPOWERMENT REPORT - It was just over six months ago that LA’s City Council passed Ordinance #182128, authorizing the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to...
Neighborhood Council Elections: Beyond the Ballot Box 31 Dec 2012 | 03:25 pm
CityWatch, Aug 10, 2012Vol 10 Issue 64 RETHINKING LA-Voters in the Northeast Valley turned out for the first of 11 regional Neighborhood Council elections, exceeding expectations and raising the stand...
My First Nurse-In and the Right to Breastfeed in Public Places 31 Dec 2012 | 03:23 pm
CityWatch, July 24, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 59 RETHINKING LA - My wife Enci and I have marched in the streets, we’ve turned out with signs and picketed, we've Stormed the Bastille, ridden Critical Mass, an...
Rumors of the Brown Act’s Demise are Greatly Exaggerated 31 Dec 2012 | 03:21 pm
CityWatch, July 17, 2012Vol 10 Issue 57 NEIGHBORHOODS LA - California’s financial woes resulted in a state budget that failed to fund the Brown Act mandate that specifies 72 hour posting of agendas, ...
LAPD Chalks Its Rubber Bullet Behavior Up to Vandalism 31 Dec 2012 | 03:20 pm
CityWatch, July 17, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 57 HOW LA’S DOWNTOWN ARTWALK BECAME A CRIME SCENE - When Lance Armstrong came to Los Angeles for a bike ride with 700 of his closest friends, the streets ran yell...
What NCs Learn from City Council: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Illegal 31 Dec 2012 | 03:18 pm
CityWatch, July 13, 2012Vol 10 Issue 56 RETHINKING LA - Neighborhood Councils learn much from watching LA’s City Council in action, some of it good, some of it bad, and some of it illegal. For examp...
Want Better Press? Be Better Press 31 Dec 2012 | 03:16 pm
CityWatch, July 10, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 55 NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS - Jim Newton’s recent editorial in the LA Times paid tribute to a decade of Neighborhood Council struggle and stirred two responses from ...
Tweeting, Texting, Liking and Other Weapons of Mass Distraction 31 Dec 2012 | 03:15 pm
CityWatch, July 6, 2012Vol 10 Issue 54 RETHINKING LA’S NC’S - If a group of Neighborhood Council leaders got together at the local library to discuss public business without inviting the public, it w...
LA Municipal Election Field Flooded with Neighborhood Council Veterans 31 Dec 2012 | 03:13 pm
CityWatch, July 3, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 53 RETHINKING LA - Jim Newton, Editor at Large of the LA Times, contends that Neighborhood Councils “have yet to prove either as revolutionary as their backers hop...
Neighborhood Councils: Death by Meeting! 31 Dec 2012 | 03:12 pm
CityWatch, June 29, 2012 Vol 10 Issue 52 RETHINKING LA - Neighborhood Councils face many obstacles as they set out to “promote more citizen participation and make government more responsive to local n...
