Posts Tagged ‘Beverly Hills’


Purple Line Subway Video Calls Out the Beverly Hillbillies

May 17, 2012 at 8:52 pm
la.curbed.com - A mysterious group called LA on the Move has released this video more or less summing up (in song!) Beverly Hills's entertaining/frustrating fight against the Purple Line subway extension and the tunnel that will probably have to run under Beverly Hills High.

BH Vice Mayor John Mirisch Wants Better Metro Transparency

May 17, 2012 at 8:00 am
centurycity.patch.com - The following post first appeared on the website CityWatch and is being republished with permission from the author. WHAT’S METRO HIDING? - James Francis Dolan, PhD. Professor of Earth Sciences at USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. The guy may be tone-deaf, for all I know, but he is literally one of the region’s true [...]

Metro responds to Beverly Hills Courier story alleging large payment to developer

May 16, 2012 at 5:37 pm
38. Century City Station Location Report
thesource.metro.net - TweetThe Beverly Hills Courier on Friday published a story alleging that Metro is preparing to pay $38.7 million to JMB Realty for land to use as part of the Westside Subway Extension project. The Courier said the information came from a Metro report. The Courier also alleged that the large payment is much more than [...]

LA.StreetsBlog Slams Villaraigosa-JMB-Subway Conspiracy

May 16, 2012 at 11:39 am
beverlyhills.patch.com - LA.StreetsBlog.org has debunked the argument that JMB Realty, which has donated to the political efforts of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, is slated to make money off the Westside Subway Extension. Villaraigosa is the chair of the Metro Board of Directors, the body that makes the final decision on the subway route. Articles have been published alleging [...]

Registration Now Open for Beverly Hills Summer Academy

May 15, 2012 at 2:00 pm
beverlyhills.patch.com - Registration is now open for the Beverly Hills Summer Academy, which offers K-12 students enrichment courses in academics, arts and athletics. Proceeds from the summer academy go toward the Beverly Hills Education Foundation, a nonprofit that helps fund extracurricular programs and staff members at all five city schools. To make the summer courses a success, the BHEF [...]

Geotechnical Expert Says Santa Monica Boulevard Has No Active Earthquake Faults

May 15, 2012 at 12:13 am
bhcourier.com - New research claiming Santa Monica Boulevard might be completely devoid of any active earthquake faults was presented to the Beverly Hills Board of Education Monday night at a study session.Research presented by Dr. Miles Kenney of Kenney Geoscience, a geotechnical firm hired by the district, along with Tim Buresh, a consultant of BHUSD who also [...]

$1.4 million insurance fraud by Beverly Hills Dentist and staff

May 6, 2012 at 6:04 pm
www.examiner.com - On Friday, May 4, 2012, the California Department of Insurance announced the arrest of Beverly Hills Dentist, Thomas Kalili, along with his Office Manager, Claudia Ventura.The reason for the arrest of these two individuals is for committing...

Video paints doomsday scenario for planned Westside subway extension

May 6, 2012 at 4:59 pm
www.latimes.com - A video released by the parent-teacher council pairs giant fireballs with students walking the corridors of Beverly Hills High School, which sits above old oil wells. An engineer who appears in the video says parts of it are over the top.Pairing images of giant fireballs with students walking the corridors of Beverly Hills High School, [...]

Rotating Blackouts A Possibility This Summer

May 1, 2012 at 9:57 pm
www.huffingtonpost.com - LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Navy is nearing a first-time agreement to curb electricity use at its sprawling San Diego-area bases if power runs short in Southern California this summer, a deal intended to diminish the threat of blackouts while the troubled San Onofre nuclear plant remains offline. The Navy is San Diego Gas & [...]

Airtalk with Larry Mantle discusses Westside Subway Extension’s Century City station

April 26, 2012 at 8:34 am
Measure R
thesource.metro.net - Tweet   The KPCC show this morning is well worth a listen and is timely: the Metro Board of Directors tomorrow is scheduled to consider the Final Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the project. Guests include Beverly Hills Councilman Barry Brucker and County Supervisor and Metro Board Member Zev Yaroslavsky, who explains why Metro staff recommended [...]

Beverly Hills police say no crime occurred in Whitney Houston’s death

April 11, 2012 at 9:34 pm
www.dailynews.com - Beverly Hills police say they have concluded Whitney Houston's death investigation and found no signs that a crime occurred.

Beverly Hills police say no crime occurred in Whitney Houston’s death

April 11, 2012 at 1:34 pm
www.dailynews.com - LOS ANGELES - Beverly Hills police say they have concluded Whitney Houston's death investigation and found no signs that a crime occurred.