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Threats by members of the Los Angeles City Council to use the city’s pension funds to penalize investors if they sell the Los Angeles Times to Charles and David Koch could be illegal and unconstitutional, experts say.A proposal by councilman Bill Rosendahl would allow the city to yank investments by the city’s three pension funds in the Tribune Co., which owns the Times, if the company opts to sell the paper to someone who does not uphold “the highest terms of professional and objective journalism.”Rumors that libertarian industrialists Charles and David Koch might buy the paper spurred him to propose...

LA City Councilman Bill Rosendahl will address Occupy LA at 11:00 am on Sunday Nov 27th - Marcy Winograd Marcy Winograd, Ocean Park Neighborhood Association Board Member, just tweeted out the invitation 52 minutes ago. (Marcy, @marcywinograd, ran for Congress last year in CA-36). Rosendahl, we believe, is the FIRST AND MAYBE THE ONLY elected city representative to address Occupy Los Angeles in their encampment. Rosendahl will speak just hours before the planned midnight eviction. On Wednesday Nov 23rd the Occupy LA leadership invited the city leaders to speak. During that same meeting Occupy Los Angeles Leader Mario Brito told...