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Here's some free advice to the next mayor of LA,You tell us we need more public safety personel and to some degree I agree, First let's look at the Fire dept what is the percentage of calls do they recieve for fires? let see 80% NO,70%NO,50%NO,40%NO,it's closer to 15-20% the rest are medical aid 75% and the other 5%are rescue/accident. We should do what the County saw coming decades ago and contract out our medical/ambulances services so that we wouldn't have the pension burden that we are faced with in hiring and paying firemen to do medical triadge,and so we can hire more police. I am not attacking our beloved fire dept but someone has to look at the high cost of public safety pensions, at the cost of other city services we can save. I have alot more free advice so give me a call Mr or Mrs mayor.

Today is Nov 14 and this headline article was first posted on Nov 2. How many more days are you going to keep this as news?

Martin can you please get this to the sports desk:

Friday's schedule said the Laker game would be coverd on kcal. it wasn't.

In one relatively insignificant money-grabbing move, the LAT has changed the landscape of it's online identity.  After the FB partnership, and this repugnance, I'm done.

"Sports Illustrated BIKINI MODEL sparks a debate..."

no duh, and keeping this fluff at the top of your headlines does too...

what a rag....

 CA puclic records box...now it is Rizzo and his cohorts. you know i really don't have time to waste on this but it seems like such a bad choice, like using FB on your comment space. get with it LAT! i'm outta here, you guys offer no response where there is overwhelming support or outcry, or a simple common sense decision goes awry like a bad headache. it is a shame to have just you, one person trying to handle all the outpouring over the silly decisions the Times makes. best of luck to you, you're tough as nails and they are lucky to have you but what a bunch of losers you represent! best,

STeve

HI Martin, 

the photo of Rizzo is back on the Public Records box. what

s that about?

I too don't trust Facebook and their weak apology isn't enough to satisfy me! Keep up the great work on Sheriff Baca and the corruption. We citizens would have never found out without you guys staying with this story

PLEASE, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ... THANK YOU !  !  !

SF DEAN

The Times continues to allow blatant racist comments in stories related to Latinos. Seems like there are no moderators to prevent it. I go less and less to the comments section when Latinos are the focus of the story.

From what i've seen Fox News will turn on their own moms.I was luky enough to fool them once and get on their radio station and talk about the guy's that built an apparatus that made their cars get 100 to 150 miles to the gallon.Over a hundred mil people heard these claims on their local news stations at one time or another,but the following days they heard no more about it.One of the guy's was from the 50's and the other i heard on our local tv station was just a couple of years ago.This last one had a 396 SS Chevel super sport that got a hundred mile to the gallon.He is a million aire now,the other guy got killed.Fox news got so made at me i though they were going to have a heart attack.They asked me how i got on their station.That day they were for the oil companys.Two days later they will be for the consumer.You never know which way they are leaning.I told them to watch Gas Hole on Hula or Youtube and i bet they did after they got home.To much information to be made up.

Mr Beck,

Not sure if you're aware, but the LA Times has patterns that erode your professionalism & readership.

1) Crime reports. A distinct lack of describing suspects, via text, sketches or photos, unless they're white or Asian. Here's a story about a man shot in south central LA, 'the suspect first punched the victim's girlfriend, and when he came to her aid, the suspect shot him.'

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/smurf-shot.html

Obviously the witnesses saw enough to offer descriptions, but the LA Times refuses to print them. If your intent is to sway (white) readers that black & Hispanic males do not commit more crime than others, you failed, since most whites left LA. The effect is to let these criminals roam free, where they most often victimize others of their same races. Happy now?

2) Political/Election stories. Stop the Lefty smear campaign. Every story you write about a Repub or that party is framed negatively, also Libertarians & conservative Independents.

Conversely, Obama & most Dem's have halos over their heads, to your writers, who bend over backwards to spin away Dem problems of union corruption, illegal alien pandering, incompetence (Obama), mis-statements (Biden) & policy disasters (Fast & Furious), etc.

The LA Times is bankrupt because of leftist groupthink that slants info. I'll be surprised if this comment lasts a week.

I want to comment on this:http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/10/us-iran-central-bank-sanctions.html

But it's a Facebook only club. How long is this going to take before it's changed exactly?

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LA Times is WAY out of line, demanding that readers post on Facebook.  Believe or not, Times editors/publishers, not all of us are on social media.

Some with deeper pockets than mine ought to sue you!

I've got a bone to pick about the Facebook only posts as well.

I feel like I'm being funneled into something I just want no part of.

Other than that, I think you folks are doing a great job.

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