Oct 25 2011
Welcome to Civic Circus, This is Ankur Patel breaking down local politics, going to three hour meetings so you don’t have to. Each week on uprising I’ll bring you a report on City, County, and State Bureaucracy.
President Obama has been talking about maintaining bridges and building roads on a regular basis, but the reality of crumbling infrastructure is felt at the local level. Los Angeles …
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Oct 18 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Most Angelenos know how it feels to get a ticket – it sucks. But worse than moving violations or fix-it tickets are parking tickets. It’s how the City lets you know there are a bunch of bureaucrats in charge and they can’t …
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Oct 11 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
If you want to follow the money, you have to look at pensions. The largest public pension fund in the United States of America is the California Public Employee Retirement System (CALPERS), valued at $235,800,000,000 as of July 2011. California is …
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Oct 04 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
There were about two thousand of people at Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday. 328 spent the night. The numbers weren’t as large on Sunday with about 150 people sleeping on the sidewalks surrounding Los Angeles City Hall.
Occupy LA was sparked by …
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Sep 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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Sep 13 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Even though most of us aren’t elected officials, we, as a citizenry have the ability to pass laws through ballot measures, propositions, initiatives, and referenda. In the end, it is the same at all levels of government: If you can get enough …
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Aug 30 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Most issues aren’t confined to a specific location or level of government, but legislation is often done piecemeal; individual cities, counties, and states develop different policies to tackle the same problem. The environment is such an issue; it bleeds through jurisdictions.
Last …
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Aug 23 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Status-quo power structures don’t want to deal with an engaged, educated, and informed citizenry… that’s one reason why public education suffers. The 6,190,425 k-12 students in 9,888 public schools in the state of California… are organized through the 1,047 school districts, each …
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Aug 16 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
Organize, Organize, Organize.
Because Los Angeles City has nearly 4,000,000 people, it isn’t surprising that there is a different organization holding a meeting or protesting something every day. Veterans for Peace, PETA, Bicycle Collectives, Third Parties, Farmers Markets, The Bus Riders Union, PTAs, …
Aug 09 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.
The media used terms like “financial apocalypse” to sensationalize the national debate over the debt-ceiling, but one point that has been crystallized is the fact that we, the United States of America, spend more money than we make. However, State, County, and City governments are not allowed to do the same. Instead, …
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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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