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"Whitney Houston was the greatest singer I’ve ever heard and she will be truly missed." Are you a fan of Whitney Houston's music? Did you see her live? Leave your tributes in the comments box below:
Antonio Villaraigosa issued the following statement Saturday night on the death of Whitney Houston: “Today, Los Angeles mourns the loss of Whitney Houston, one of the greatest voices of all time. It is with deep sadness that we reflect upon a life taken...
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Lu Parker and mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attends Delta Air Lines Celebrates LA's Music Industry with Getty House reception at The Getty House on February 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. View Photo »
And we expect he’ll be a no-show ... I’d love to invite him once again. We’d love to have him.
And may you be held in the arms of the angels. Please, pray to comfort all those who hold her dear Chris Kattan: I remember how sweet Whitney Houston was [to] us cast members on SNL. The world just lost an incredible boice. Just like that. Tragic. Los...
Assessor Noguez, who lacks a college degree, was elected in 2010 to manage the $1 Trillion LA Assessors office with strong political backing and support of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and California Assembly member Gil Cedillo. Villaraigosa...
Gomez is leaving his post as the head librarian of the city of Los Angeles to become vice dean of libraries USC, it was announced Friday. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in announced Gomez's resignation, said the librarian's three-year tenure at the helm of...
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa arrives at Delta Air Lines Celebrates LA's Music Industry with Getty House reception at The Getty House on February 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. View Photo »
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raised public safety and health concerns in announcing plans for the eviction last week, while Philadelphia officials said protesters must clear their site to make room for a $50 million renovation project.
“We found members of the Morongo Indian Tribe, screenwriters from Universal Studios, a YWCA cruise, people from the exclusive Jonathan Club, UCLA students and dozens of the mayor’s interns,” CBS reports. When asked about some of the people being given...
ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today issued the following statement regarding the resignation of Martin Gomez as City Librarian. Gomez will assume the post of Vice Dean of the University of Southern California...
Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles in a run-off election on May 17, 2005, in which he defeated incumbent mayor James Hahn. Prior to his service as mayor,... Full Article
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa arrives at Delta Air Lines Celebrates LA's Music Industry with Getty House reception at The Getty House on February 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and council member Eric Garcetti arrive for a celebration with opponents of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage bill, at Los Angeles City Hall on February 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. A three-judge...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Opponent of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage bill, actor Robert Reiner (C) speaks as Oscar winning writer Dustin Lance Black (L), for the film 'Harvey Milk' and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) look on during a celebration at Los...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Opponent of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage bill, actor Robert Reiner (C) speaks as Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and council member Eric garcetti look on during a celebration at Los Angeles City Hall on February 7, 2012 in Los...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Opponents of Proposition 8, California's anti-gay marriage bill, actor Robert Reiner (C) writer Dustin Lance Black (2nd L) celebrate with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and councilman Eric Garcetti (L) at Los Angeles City Hall on February 7,...
View Photo »Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa takes to the podium before First Lady Michelle Obama (L) speaks at the future site of a Northgate Gonzales Market to highlight progress of the California FreshWorks Fund, a $264 million public-private financing fund that invests in bringing...
View Photo »US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (C) as Dr. Robert Ross, CEO of The California Endowment (L) speaks in Inglewood, California on February 1, 2012, where she arrived to help showcase tangible changes being made by Northgate Gonzales Markets that...
View Photo »INGLEWOOD, CA - FEBRUARY 01: First lady Michelle Obama speaks with Los Angeles City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and Inglewood Mayor James Butts (L) looking on at the future site of Northgate Market to discuss the California FreshWorks Fund on February 1, 2012 in Inglewood, California.
View Photo »US First Lady Michelle Obama (C) gestures while speaking at the podium between Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) and Inglewood Mayor James Butts (L) in Inglewood, California on February 1, 2012, where she arrived to help showcase tangible changes being made by Northgate Gonzales...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 25: Actor Nick Nolte (L) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa pose at the after party for the premiere of HBO's 'Luck' at the Roosevelt Hotel on January 25, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
View Photo »First lady Michelle Obama, left, and Oscar Gonzalez, co-president of Northgate Markets, listens to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, foreground, at the future site of a Northgate Market in Inglewood, Calif. , Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. Michelle Obama says the proposed new...
View Photo »First lady Michelle Obama talks with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa chat during an event held to showcase efforts being made to draw grocers to low-income neighborhoods at the future site of a Northgate Market in Inglewood, Calif. , Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
View Photo »Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa speaks to the 2012 Winter Meeting of The United States Conference of Mayors in Washington January 20, 2012.
View Photo »New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg(C) speaks at a press conference alongside Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa(R) on January 20, 2012 during the US Conference of Mayors winter meeting in Washington, DC to endorse same sex marriage. A group of 80 mayors announced a campaign Friday to...
View Photo »Porn actors prepare to shoot a scene for a Vivid Entertainment adult film production in the Los Angeles area in this undated photograph, released to Reuters January 26, 2012. Porn actors in Los Angeles will have to use condoms on the set as a condition of obtaining a film permit under a...
View Photo »HOLLYWOOD, CA - JANUARY 14: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (L) and journalist Lu Parker arrive at the 9th Annual G'Day USA Los Angeles Black Tie Gala at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom on January 14, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
View Photo »Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, left, is shown with Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck as he speaks at news conference in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan 5, 2012. Serious crime in Los Angeles dropped for the ninth straight year in 2011 to reach a near-historic low.
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 2: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (C) speaks at a press conference after the arrest of a suspect for dozens of arson fires that were set over the weekend, on January 2, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. Harry Burkhart, 24, allegedly set more than 50...
View Photo »Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charles Beck flanked by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, right, answers questions during a news conference of the joint task force announcing the apprehension of a prime suspect Harry Burkhart in a series of 53 blazes in the Los Angeles Area, Monday,...
View Photo »Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa delivers a statement during a news conference of the joint task force announcing the apprehension of a prime suspect in a series of 53 blazes in the Los Angeles Area, Monday, Jan. 2, 2012.
View Photo »Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, left, smiles at arresting officer 30-year-old real estate attorney and reserve Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Shervin Lalezary during a news conference of the joint task force announcing the apprehension of a prime suspect Harry Burkhart in a series of...
View Photo »Thirty-year-old real estate attorney and reserve Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Shervin Lalezary, left, is applauded by Los Angeles County Sheriff Le Baca, center, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, right, and the rest of the attending officials at a task force news conference for his arrest...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 30: Members of Occupy Los Angeles protesters seated in circle in the middle of their encampment wait to be arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers after LAPD raided their protest campsite on November 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 30: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck (2nd R) and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (R) look over the damage after Los Angeles police officers dismantled the Occupy LA encampment following a raid by LAPD in the early house of November 30, 2011 in Los...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 30: Charlie Beck (C) Chief of Los Angeles Police Department, and California. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (L) speak with officers in the Occupy Los Angeles encampment following a raid by LAPD on November 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. ...
View Photo »LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 09: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa arrives at Delta Air Lines Celebrates LA's Music Industry with Getty House reception at The Getty House on February 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California.
View Photo »And we expect he’ll be a no-show ... I’d love to invite him once again. We’d love to have him.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raised public safety and health concerns in announcing plans for the eviction last week, while Philadelphia officials said protesters must clear their site to make room for a $50 million renovation project.
They can’t cut to the point where they set the economy back again ... We’ve got to cut, there’s no question about it. Our mayors have stood up for the proposition that we’ve got to cut entitlements, we’ve got to make them more sustainable, particularly Medicare. But we’ve also got to close tax loopholes...
By order of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, this notice terminates your tenancy and requires you to attend the Occupy L.A. Eviction Block Party
At approximately 12:30 a.m., the LAPD began enforcing the closure of City Hall Park after giving those in the park a final opportunity to leave without facing arrest ... We have taken a measured approach to enforcing the park closure because we have wanted to give people every opportunity to leave peace...
The LEED ® Gold certification reflects our commitment to contribute to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s vision of making Los Angeles the cleanest big city in America, and is in keeping with a sustainable ‘green’ building policy adopted by our Board of Airport Commissioners that commits us to incorporate LEE...
I couldn't be prouder of what I believe is maybe the finest moment in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department
I saw children there ... and it sent chills up my spine when I thought of what could be there.
These are costs every city is facing ... I expect it will be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even more. But the First Amendment is not cheap. It is messy, but we need to defend it.
Anybody who went through that park, it was and is a public-health hazard
We took a measured approach, we did not dismiss the protesters out of hand
We have taken a measured approach because we wanted to give people the chance to leave peacefully.
I said here in Los Angeles we'd chart a different path and we did
I said that here in L.A. we'd chart a different path, and we did
We have taken a measured approach to enforcing the park closure because we have wanted to give people every opportunity to leave peacefully
The images you’ve seen across the country, people battling the police, you haven’t seen in this city
are in violation of the law but we won't make any arrests until such time as we believe we can do so with a minimum amount of force
Occupy LA has brought needed attention to the growing disparities in our country and I look forward to its ongoing efforts to build an economy that works for everyone ... As we continue to respect the exercise of everyone's First Amendment rights in our Civic Center and throughout Los Angeles, City Hall...
While Occupy LA has brought needed attention to the economic disparities in our country, an encampment on City Hall grounds is simply not sustainable indefinitely
move from holding a particular patch of park to spreading the message of economic Although most protesters showed no signs of moving Monday, a few did seem to support the mayor's I'm going
Though the park will officially close tonight at 12:01 a.m., the department will allow campers ample time to remove their belongings peacefully and without disruption
After this initial success the movement is at a crossroads
In seven short weeks, you have awakened the country’s conscience… You have given voice to those who have not been heard.
The movement is at a crossroads ... It is time for Occupy LA to move from holding a particular patch of park land to spreading the message of economic justice and signing more people up for the push to restore the balance to American society.
We're asking the participants in the Occupy LA encampment to pack their belongings and leave in an orderly manner
