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The Los Angeles Economy, Prop S, and Plastic Bags

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Mayor Villaraigosa’s diverse, blue-ribbon committee wants to make LA more friendly to business by improving LAX and the Port of LA and redeveloping city-owned land in South-Central. We’ll also look at Proposition S on the city ballot: a tax on telephones. On Reporter’s Notebook, why didn’t LA County Supervisors ban plastic shopping bags?

Making News

The Los Angeles Economy and Jobs Committee Releases its Report ()

Los Angeles has lost 30,000 jobs in the past decade and 106,000 in manufacturing alone during the past 17 years.  Those are among the findings of a 26-person committee put together last year by Mayor Villaraigosa. It’s a diverse group, including the President of USC, the Director of the Hammer Museum and the leader of the County Federation of Labor. Today, the committee released its 130-page report on revitalizing the local economy. 

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  • Russell Goldsmith: CEO of City National Bank and Chairman of the Los Angeles Economy and Jobs Committee
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Main Topic

Prop S ()

Los Angeles now has a 10% tax on telephones, but it’s highly likely to be overturned by the courts—at a cost to the city of $243 million dollars. On February 5th, LA voters will be asked to impose a 9% tax on communications devices including cell phones.  It’s an emergency measure, so instead of the usual two-thirds of the vote, it will require a simple majority.

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Reporter's Notebook

LA County’s Board of Supervisors Backs off It’s a Ban Plastic Bags ()

After the City and County of San Francisco banned plastic shopping bags, LA County Supervisors ordered county lawyers to draw up a similar measure along with four alternatives.  That was nine months ago. Yesterday, the Board took action. A ban will not be adopted unless the use of such bags decreases by itself--30% by 2010 and 65% by 2013.

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

 

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