Which Way, L.A.?
The Los Angeles Economy, Prop S, and Plastic Bags
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?
By Warren Olney • • 30m ListenMayor 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?
In this episode
3 storiesThe 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 .
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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.
Read the story4 minLA 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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