Jack Humphreville
DWP Transfer Fee Doomed?
L.A. Watchdog -- On Jan. 22, Los Angeles City Councilman Felipe Fuentes introduced a motion calling for a ballot measure to reform and to...
DWP Has Been Transparent, but City Has Not
L.A. Watchdog -- Our Dept. of Water and Power cannot get out of the spotlight these days as it has proposed to raise our...
Common Sense Uncommon to Garcetti, Wesson
L.A. Watchdog -- The primary goal of the ballot measure to reform and restructure the governance of our Dept. of Water and Power is...
Is Chief Beck Impediment to Progress?
L.A. WATCHDOG -- At the Tuesday morning meeting of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, Police Chief Charlie Beck told Mitch Englander and his...
Mr. Wesson and a Message About Hell
L.A. WATCHDOG -- On Saturday, the Neighborhood Council DWP Memorandum of Understanding Oversight Committee unanimously approved the following resolution:
"The DWP Oversight Committee calls on...
Convention Center Unaffordable
L.A. WATCHDOG -- The City of Los Angeles is embarking on an ambitious, $470 million plan to modernize and expand the Convention Center so...
Two Rivals Line up for Garcetti
L.A Watchdog -- Although the mayoral primary for the City of Los Angeles is over 400 days away, two credible candidates have surfaced to...
Is IBEW Bo$$ d’Arcy’s New Deal in the Best Interests of...
LA Watchdog – In a front page article in last Friday’s Los Angeles Times, Jack Dolan exposed the systematic abuse of the Dept. of Water and Power’s sick day policy. This is both good news and bad news. The bad news is that ratepayers have been soaked for $35.5 million over the last three years to fund this abuse by a very small minority of DWP employees who took advantage of an overly generous sick leave policy that was not...
Narrow Eyes, Open Window and Slyly Pitch $1 Billion to, Uh,...
Since the beginning of the year, the politically ambitious Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and his Energy and Environment Committee have approved over $1 billion in programs and policies that are the pet projects of the campaign-funding unions and the political powerful environmental lobby. Unfortunately, DWP Ratepayers and hard-working Angelenos once again are going to be stuck with...
It’s Time to Sell the Convention Center
The odds that an NFL team will relocate to Farmers Field in downtown Los Angeles are better – but not much – than slim to none, given the avarice of the self-centered owners and their New York-based mercenaries. As a result, the city is considering forming a Technical Advisory Panel to “evaluate the various options the city may have for the re-use of the West Hall site in connection with the expansion and improvement of the Convention Center.”
