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CRA Loans On Risky Ground
Agency says repayment takes back seat to ‘public purpose’ of curing blight
November 12, 1995
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ARTICLES
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BUSINESS AND DEFENSE
‘Be Quick, Be Quiet, Be On Time’
A History Of Boom And Bust
A Home For Always
An Opening To Theft
Battling Erupts Over Gulf War Troops Parade
Builders Bulldozed By Thieves
Businesses Revolting Against City Truck Ban
Corporate poachers swoop onto SoCal to steal away firms
Crusader Pushes For Simpler Inheritance Rules
Earth, Wind and Wire: Going Beyond Solar Panels
House Hunting? It’s Not a Buyer’s Market Everywhere
Is Lockheed Corp. Working On A New Secret Stealth Plane?
Let’s Hear It For Tommy’s (Burp)
Not On His Watch
Recession may forge a housing shift in California
Some Ideas On What To Get A Pooch Who Has Everything
State, Hollywood Chamber Near Deal To Retain Landmarks Control
The Full-Employment Act For Spies
Wheel N’ Deal
ENVIRONMENTAL
Air of Deceit. A Cap-and-Trade Fraud Like No Other.
Air Quality Agency Falls Victim To Edifice Complex
Barbecuers Are Doing A Slow Burn
Calls For Reducing Chromium Levels In Water Go Unheeded
Cap and Trade and the Smog Market Ripoff
Clearing The Waters
Defunct Steam Plans Draining MWD
Dropping Science
DWP Failed to Inform Council on Tainted Wells, Lawmakers Say
Garbage Alliances Assailed
Impossible Choices
Keeping Their Distance
Lead-Paint Cleanup Stalled In Boyle Heights
Lockheed Fears Persist
Lockheed Quagmire Grows
Lockheed Resolves Toxic Claims
Memos Detail Lockheed Settlement
MWD Boondoggle
MWD Paid Developer Millions
Par For The Landfill
Rocketdyne Gets Health Study Before Panelists
Rockwell Debacle: How Did it Start?
Score One For The Trees
Smoke And Mirrors
Smoke Screen
Steam Plant Fulled Political Blow-UP
Toxic Law May Have Swayed Lockheed Case
Troubled Waters
Up in Smoke
GENERAL ASSIGNMENT AND POLITICAL
Abuse Inquiry Targets Pasadena’s Ex-Chief
Airport Diplomacy
Bridge To The Past
Chief Says ‘Scoopers’ Not Super
Congestion Forces Change at L.A. Airport
Coping With Death
CSUN Senior Will Put Pleasure Before Business
FBI Probe Follows Tangled Path To Firm Run By Ex-U.S. Treasurer
Frequent Fliers
Got Your Back
Hired Guns Wage County Legal Wars
If Clinton Wins, Could L.A. Cadre Garner Key Positions?
Paid In Full
Parents Quest For The Truth
Pay To Play L.A.
Prepare for a Quake? L.A.’s too busy
Pushing Out Pisano
Riordan’s Downtown Deal
State Of The Union
Taking Care
Tunnel Vision
U.S. Scolds Pasadena Police Over Drug Funds
Who Killed Stephen Ballreich?
Woman Makes Home For Holidays In Her Car
PROFILES AND COLUMNS
A Strong Signal on Global Warming
California’s Solar Scorecard
Does the Climate Bill Have a Chance?
Gone Baby, Gone
His Way (Part II)
MTA Watchdog Makes Inroads On Money Train
New Dad: Everyone’s A Critic
Odd Man In
Return Of The Native
She Speaks Loudly And Carries A Big Stick- Glendale Mayor Virginia Bremberg
The Man Who Would Be King (Part I)
What Does He Want (Fidel Vargas)?
Who’s Been Using My Bin?
REDEVELOPMENT
A House Divided
City For Sale
CRA Cuts $50 Million Deal With Developer Of Hollywood Project
CRA Loans On Risky Ground
CRA’s Forgiveness Pays
Dysfunction Junction
History Of Hollywood Museum Reads Like Horror Movie Script
L.A. Fast-Tracking Recovery Bill Skids In State Legislature
Man In The Middle
Pressure Reportedly Rising To Oust Wood As CRA’s Chairman
The White Elephant
TRANSPORTATION
A Sobering Ride On Line 420
Caltrans Missed Safety Deadline
Freeway Work: A Perilous Paycheck
Homes Owned By Caltrans Not Kept Up, Records Show
Los Angeles plays legal hardball with Santa Fe over railway lines
Metro Rail Cost-Overrun Tab Adds To City Hall Fiscal Woes
Money Train
Moving Down The Road
MTA Spent Big To Sugarcoat Tunneling
No Exit
Problems Pile Up Along Metroline
Some MTA Drivers Get Physical
Subway Tunnel Walls At Risk, Report Warns
The Untouchables- Corridor of Shame
Thunder Road
Transit Commision Auditors Cast Eagle Eye On Tutor’s Costs
Tunnel Visions- Corridor of Shame
VIDEOS
Action Online review of Gordon’s story
