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At the heart of the current controversy involving free tickets at Los Angeles City Hall, one question stands out: If Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attended big-time entertainment events because he was conducting city business, why did he not keep better records of those public duties? For weeks, Villaraigosa has argued that he appeared in an official capacity at dozens of concerts, sporting events and awards shows since 2005, from sitting in box seats at Dodger Stadium to attending a 2007 performance by R&B singer Mary J. Blige at L.A. Live. Those duties, he said, exempted him from the law that would...

<p>Sources tell CBS NEWS that Congressman William Jefferson (D-LA) will be indicted this afternoon on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption. Jefferson has been the subject of a ongoing probe in which FBI agents allegedly found more than 90-thousand dollars in cash in his freezer. The Justice Department is expected to unveil the charges later today... Developing...</p>

POLL HERE: http://www.wwltv.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25953 Please excuse the subject, this is a call to action, it was meant to get YOUR attention. Read on while witholding judgment. Citizens of Louisiana, WE THE PEOPLE need easier and more effective methods and administrative and legal procedures and remedies to remove elected, appointed and other public officials and employees, IN ALL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT, from their positions of trust (GIVEN TO THEM BY THE PEOPLE of our good and historic state) when they are involved of suspected or proven undesirable activity. The endless days of graft, corruption, miscondcut, looking the other way, making perpetual excuses...

IEM Inc., a Baton Rouge, La.-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, announced it will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane...