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Posted 2004-02-06: Wehbe Honored at Luncheon Ferris Wehbe, member of the Hollywood Media District's Board of Directors, was honored Friday, Feb. 6 at a luncheon sponsored by the Hollywood Coordinating Council. Posted 2003-05-05: Hahn, Delgadillo and Chick Propose Fundamental Reforms To City's Contracting And Procurement Process City officials seek to cut red tape and make contracting process friendlier to businesses Posted 2003-04-08: The US 101 Freeway Corridor Improvement Study Did you know that the 101 Freeway Corridor is one of the most congested freeways in the nation? Posted 2003-04-08: Survey on city's Hollywood Service Center The Mayor's office is relocating some city services from downtown to a Hollywood Service Center. Posted 2003-03-18: Street Closures for the Academy Awards (Mar. 19-24) We have collected a list of street closures for the 75th Annual Academy Awards being held at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland (courtesy of oscars.org). Posted 2003-02-14: Hollywood Schoolhouse founder Ruth Pease turns 95! Ms. Pease's 95th birthday was marked recently with a schoolwide celebration and a LA Times article. Posted 2002-11-07: Mayor Hahn Unveils New System to Improve Accessibility to City Services 3-1-1 "One Call to City Hall" Provides LA Residents, Businesses and Visitors with Quick Access to 1,400 Non-Emergency City Services Posted 2002-11-06: LA Times: Secession's Legacy May Benefit L.A.'s Businesses Secession was poised to lose on Tuesday's ballot, but all of Los Angeles owes a vote of thanks to the people of the San Fernando Valley who carried the flag of independence. Posted 2002-11-06: Daily News: Breakup movements fall short at the polls In a historic election over the future of Los Angeles, secession of the San Fernando Valley was soundly defeated Tuesday despite leading by a narrow margin in the Valley itself. Posted 2002-11-04: LA Times: Secessionists Ponder Life After Election Day With the election just one day away, some proponents of San Fernando Valley and Hollywood secession are laying the groundwork for life after Nov. 5 -- whether or not the ballot measures pass. Posted 2002-11-01: LA Times: Last-Minute Blitzes Planned as Secession Decision Nears Backers and foes of Valley and Hollywood cityhood schedule a flurry of activities aimed at getting voters to the polls on Tuesday. Posted 2002-10-29: LA Times: All Reform Measures Have Failed, Secessionists Say San Fernando Valley and Hollywood secession leaders told a debate audience Monday night that breaking up Los Angeles is necessary because all other attempts to reform city government have failed. Posted 2002-10-27: Daily News: Support local control -Vote yes on Measure H, Hollywood independence Although usually lumped together, there are many important differences between the Hollywood and San Fernando Valley secession movements. Posted 2002-10-24: LA Times: Secession Leaders Fear City Hall Revenge If Bids Fail While expressing confidence of a victory, secession leaders say they still worry that city officials will take a range of punitive actions if the measures fail -- from cutting funds for pro-breakup groups to keeping secession supporters off city commissions to rolling back services in the Valley and Hollywood. Posted 2002-10-14: Daily News: One shot at breakup? Hahn wants law change to delay future secession bids Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn said Monday that if secession fails to pass Nov. 5, he will seek a state law barring new cityhood efforts in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood for a "reasonable amount of time." Posted 2002-10-13: LA Times: L.A. Lags Behind Largest U.S. Cities in Basic Services Los Angeles trails the other four largest U.S. cities in key measurements of many municipal services, including police and fire protection, a record that secessionists say boosts their cause as residents prepare to vote on the breakaway measures for the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood. Posted 2002-10-12: LA Times: 15 Economists Say Secession Would Aid All - Cal State Northridge group argues breakup would boost economies of L.A., the Valley and Hollywood If the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood seceded from Los Angeles, the economy of all three cities would improve, 15 economists from Cal State Northridge said Friday. The economists, who include the current and past chairmen of the university's economics department, the former dean of the business school and the founder of the San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, released a statement they said was meant to debunk claims by Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn and others that secession would hurt the economy. Posted 2002-10-03: LA Times: Secession - A Tale of New Cities - There's no plot, just government reorganization (commentary by Joel Fox) Ballot measures allowing Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley to break away from Los Angeles have stirred colorful analogies to bygone periods from our history. Some use the term "secession" and conjure up pictures of 140-year-old battlefields. Others talk about "independence" from "King James" Hahn in the same fervent tones as did the patriots of 1776. The unglamorous truth is that the breakup of Los Angeles is neither a rebellious secession nor a revolution dethroning a king. Measures F (the Valley city measure) and H (the Hollywood city measure) amount to a reorganization of government. Posted 2002-10-02: LA Times: Counting on Airport Ire for Votes - Proponents of Valley and Hollywood independence are hoping the city's coastal residents, angry over management of LAX, will support breakup Every few minutes, another airplane slices through the Westchester sky. Twenty miles away, secessionists in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood are counting on those jets, buzzing into Los Angeles International Airport like angry bumblebees, to help carry them to victory in November. Posted 2002-10-01: LA Times: New Alliance Rises to Fight Secession - The coalition of council members and lobbyists is called a 'city hall power elite' that the breakup movement is trying to defeat Los Angeles City Council members have joined prominent local lobbyists, the city's police union and a leading developer in the fight against secession?raising ethics concerns and long-term implications for governing the city. Posted 2002-09-20: Daily News: Hahn returns $25,000 - Anti-secession donation $15,000 more than previously claimed Mayor James Hahn acknowledged Friday he solicited $25,000 - not $10,000 as previously claimed - for his anti-secession campaign from the Entertainment Industry Development Corp. and was returning the money to end the distraction of L.A.'s burgeoning "filmgate" scandal. Posted 2002-09-19: Daily News: Hollywood's latest drama -- Scandal and intrigue at the EIDC In Episode I, we learned that the EIDC - a nonprofit, public corporation dedicated to keeping TV and film productions in Los Angeles - was being used as a piggy bank for its executives and the public officials who sit on its governing board. Posted 2002-09-16: LA Times: TV Ads Will Press Hollywood Secession A pair of commercials running on Adelphia cable channels focus on key issues identified in survey: love of diversity and dislike of filthy streets. Posted 2002-09-16: Daily News: Study finds the city trails others in funds, services Los Angeles fares poorly compared with other nearby cities on spending to fight violent crime and attract business, and gets less per person in state and federal funds than most large cities in California, according to a draft of a comprehensive study to be released today. Posted 2002-08-23: Daily News: Study finds L.A.'s clout minimal in D.C., capital For its size, the city of Los Angeles has relatively little clout in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., according to a study released Thursday that undercuts one of the arguments against San Fernando Valley secession. Posted 2002-07-26: Needle exchange spurring crime, neighbors complain The City Attorney's Office is investigating a city-funded needle exchange program operating near the intersection of Santa Monica Blvd and Highland Ave, as neighbors complain the program has exacerbated already existing drug use and prostitution in the area. Posted 2002-07-17: $160,000 Raised for Hollywood City Campaign LA Times article -- Hollywood secession leaders said Tuesday that they raised nearly $160,000 at their first fund-raising meeting, mostly from within their own ranks. Posted 2002-06-06: Hollywood Secession Will Join Valley's on the Ballot LA Times article -- The Local Agency Formation Commission votes 6 to 2 to put the Hollywood secession measure on the Nov. 5 city ballot, alongside the Valley cityhood plan. Posted 2002-05-29: Support for Hollywood Secession LA Times article -- Breakup: LAFCO chief will urge that cityhood plan, like Valley's, be sent to the voters in November. Harbor area will likely have to wait. Posted 2002-05-25: Welcome to the grand-opening of FerrisWehbe.org! Thank you for visiting. We hope you'll find this site useful for keeping up to date about issues that affect the Hollywood area and Los Angeles as a whole. Posted 2002-05-23: History in the making DailyNews.com Opinion piece about a vote for Valley secession. Posted 2002-05-23: In Denial: As Mayor Jimmy fiddles with the NFL stadium plan, the Valley burns with resentment NewTimesLA.com feature on Valley secession. Posted 2002-05-22: Local Agency Formation Commission votes Wed, May 22, to allow Los Angeles voters to determine in November whether the sprawling San Fernando Valley, home to 1.3 million people, should be allowed leave the nation's second-largest city. If approved by a majority of all Los Angeles voters, a new city of 1.3 million would come into being on July 1, 2003. Posted 2002-05-07: The world-famous Hollywood sign, until recent years an apt symbol of Los Angeles' neglect towards this area of the city, is now the center of some secession controversy. Who's sign is it anyway? Perhaps the city's whose namesake it proclaims to the world... Posted 2002-05-01: According to a March 2002 poll by the Los Angeles Times, nearly half of city voters (46%) now favor Valley secession, as opposed to only 38% which oppose, with 16% still undecided. These results demonstrate a significant upward trend for pro-secessionists from a year prior. |
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