[BurbankKarl]

"Concerns (among local leaders) about the environment and social justice are considered far more important than sustaining job growth and business creation," the report said.

[absalom01]

Ya think?

[bayourod]

"Los Angeles-area leadership, especially the city of Los Angeles, is indifferent if not hostile to business activity. ...Los Angeles city officials were pursuing social measures such as inclusionary zoning, living wages and bans on big-box retailers rather than improved schools and training, lower taxes and a healthier business climate. "

I've been trying to tell the Anti-immigrant FR posters from LA that their problems aren't immigration problems but rather local government problems.

Similarly, their crime problems aren't immigration problems but rather local government problems. LA, which is several times larger than Houston only has a third the number of police officers. LA has severe gang problems, Houston doesn't.

[LaMudBug]

"The study recommends a five-point plan including schooling politicians in basic economics, developing a serious strategy for economic growth and working with local industry to identify job trends and needs."

Why not require that any one running for a political office take this course at their own expense rather than having the taxpayers pay for their education? No Pell Grants....

[Redcloak]

Doncha just love Li'l Jimmy Hahn? When accused of being a socialist, Li'l Jimmy stamps his little feet, shouts "No I'm not!", and then proceeds to tout one of his socialist programs ("Affordable" housing) as evidence that he's not really a socialist. Li'l Jimmy's a dumb as a bag of hammers, and yet, he's one of the LA political scene's brightest minds.

[Clemenza]

The STUPIDEST MOVE that LA is contemplating is restricting activities at the Port of LA-Long Beach due to "emissions" concerns. This is the BUSIEST port in the USA. Don't the morons see that this will only send more business to Oakland, Tacoma, and Seattle? Jim Hahn and his ilk must not be very bright.

[ken21]

Between 1989 and 1995 the region lost 50 percent of its defense and aerospace jobs versus a 33 percent decline for the rest of California and a 20 percent decline nationally.

At the same time, companies most involved with Los Angeles' rise to global prominence -- Broadway stores, Lockheed Corp., Hughes Aircraft Co. and Security Pacific Bank, First Interstate Bank, Great Western Savings, logos that defined the downtown skyline -- had or were about to disappear through mergers.

si. i was there then.

there was another department store that upscale women liked, but can't remember the name--buffums, something like that.

[philetus]

"Our city is a Mexican city, and Mexican Americans have greatly shaped
our cultural, political and commercial landscape."

Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn
November 5, 2001