Jan 31 2012
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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. This week on Uprising I’ll cover last weeks LA County Board of Supervisors meeting where item number 19 dealt with many issues surrounding our current prison system.
The initial tone of the meeting was about implementing alternatives to …
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Jan 26 2012
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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. This week on Uprising I’ll take a close look at Joe Buscaino the newest City Councilmember for the city of Los Angeles.
Council District 15, which includes San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles, was previously represented by …
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Jan 24 2012
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
An error occurred today and this week’s Civic Circus was not heard. It will be broadcast on Thursday January 26th during Uprising.
This week on Uprising I’ll take a close look at Joe Buscaino the newest City Councilmember for the city of Los Angeles.
Council District 15, which includes San Pedro and …
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Jan 17 2012
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
The LAUSD is the second largest school district in the United States with a K through 12 enrollment of 664,000 and a total enrollment of 919,000 students. The general fund for this fiscal year 2011/12 totaled $6.5 billion. That is after …
Jan 10 2012
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Massive budgetary holes are nothing new to Angelenos: two years ago the $450 million budget gap was addressed through the Early Retirement Program (ERIP), which allowed 2,400 city workers to retire up to 5 years early. That was supposed to save …
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Dec 20 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. …
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Dec 06 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
A little bit of background: The UC system comprises of 10 campuses and has about 220,000 students, while the CSU system is made up of 23 campuses and has about 440,000 students. The decision making body for the UC System is the …
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Nov 29 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Welcome to Civic Circus, this is Ankur Patel breaking down local politics, going to three hour meetings so you don’t have to. This week I am going to give you a report on the municipal elections held on November 8th.
Some people …
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Nov 08 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
You may have heard about the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission, the 14 member citizen body that drew the lines for the State Senate, State Assembly, Board of Equalization, andCalifornia’s House of Representatives. They had dozens of public meetings across the state, took input …
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Nov 01 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Elections are next week! Over a hundred local elections within Los Angeles County are scheduled for November 8th, 2011. There are about 80 school district elections ranging from Antelope Valley Joint Union High and Whittier Union High to Santa Clarita Community College …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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