My main complaint with the profession is not the NIMBYs or overzealous developers, they are relatively easy to handle so long as they feel included in the development process. It’s the politicians and bureaucrats – they don’t seem to know when to butt out and let us do our jobs as we know how. So many times, they or they "deputies" have f—-ed things up!
Overall, it’s a great profession – I recomend it to anyone with political or social science leanings.
Hmmm. The Daily Breeze Ed Board might want to reconsider their logic. According to the State Controller’s office, the state levies a flat $.18 per gallon. . .So in actuality, the cheaper gas is, the more of it people will buy. So cheaper gas=more driving/more sales=more gas tax revenue for the state. When gas prices are high, revenue from gas tax suffers both at the state and national level because people buy less fuel and use mass transit. Less driving is better, but the downside is less money for projects. Solutions?
Great, lets say we do bottom out and its at 2001 prices, do people expect the value of their homes to once again rise to 2006’ish and start this mess all over again?
The Times, like most major newspapers, has confused the Op-Ed page with "news" for the past 20 years. If it actually had objective, investigative reporters, it might still be able to sell ads. But instead, it gave us La Opinion, and then Hoy, and acts as a rubber-stamp for the Socialist Worker’s Party.
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Washington Blvd Corridor: Mid-City Attempts New Life
If I could afford it I would buy that Mansfield Motel and turn it into an art gallery complex like 6150 Wilshire. The design is excellent and I’d keep the Mansfield sign. This is historic Ed Ruscha-era LA architecture. I love it!
In LAT’s art critic Christopher Knight’s open letter to MoCA trustees, he does a good job of blasting these cheap, incompetent bastards, but unfortunately he doesn’t list their names. Some of these people, like Steve Tisch, Eugenio Lopez, Eli Broad, and I’m sure others, are BILLIONAIRES!!!! One month of interest from their collective bank accounts could raise enough money to fund MoCA for a generation!!! That they will now ask for some kind of bailout for MoCA from people like us is OBSCENE, like the Big 3 automakers’ CEO’s flying via personal jet to ask for $25 billion in bailout money. It’s time for the wealthy to share in our misery. F**k them all.
From MoCA’s website, here are The Museum of Contemporary Art Board of Trustees:
Board of Trustees
David G. Johnson, Co-Chair
Tom Unterman, Co-Chair
Jeffrey Soros, President
Gil Friesen, Vice Chair
Clifford J. Einstein, Chair Emeritus
Dallas Price-Van Breda, President Emeritus
John Baldessari
William J. Bell
Arthur H. Bilger
Ruth Bloom
Fabrizio Bonanni
Blake Byrne
Charles Cohen
Kathi Cypres
Rosette V. Delug
Betty Duker
Susan Gersh
Barbara Kruger
Wonmi Kwon
Eugenio Lopez
Lillian Pierson Lovelace
Maurice Marciano
Jane F. Nathanson
Douglas R. Ring
Steven F. Roth
Ed Ruscha
Fred Sands
Larry Sanitsky
Jennifer Simchowitz
Beth Swofford
Steve Tisch
Christopher V. Walker
David L. Zimmerman, Jr.
Ex Officio Trustees
Council President Eric Garcetti
Jeremy Strick
The Honorable Antonio Villaraigosa
Life Trustees
Eli Broad
Betye Monell Burton
Beatrice Gersh
Lenore S. Greenberg
Audrey M. Irmas
Frederick M. Nicholas