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L.A. Times - Latin America Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Five Los Angeles City Council members this week pledged to donate $2,000 each to help storm victims in El Salvador. Council Members Jose Huizar, Eric Garcetti (council president), Ed Reyes, Tony Cardenas and Richard Alarcon promised a donation totaling $10,000 to a local disaster relief agency focused on El Salvador. Torrential rains in the Central American nation this month triggered...
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Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... councilmember.zine@lacity.org Jose Huizar (213)-473-7014 councilmember.huizar@lacity.org Tony Cardenas (213) -473-7006 councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org Jan Perry (213)-473-7009 Jan.Perry@lacity.org Greig Smith (213)-473-7012 councilmember.smith@lacity.org If you really want to support it, show up Monday, November 16, to ask committee members in person to reject the ordinance, and...
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Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... from a list of three finalists. The other Public Safety committee members are Councilmen Tony Cardenas, Ed Reyes and Dennis Zine, and Councilwoman Jan Perry. Villaraigosa said the 56-year-old Beck, a 32-year police veteran who has been serving as the LAPD's chief of detectives, was "a progressive police reformer" who is "tough on crime" and "a leader with deep respect and understanding...
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Blade Watch (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
... made a world-class decision today to support a state-of-the-art e-mail system,” said Councilman Tony Cardenas who was behind the original motion to make the shift to Google. Despite lobbying by Microsoft, the LA City Council ended months of speculation and debate with a decision to transfer e-mail operations for its 30,000 employees to Google. The deal is significant for public sector...
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Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Los Angeles City Council approved a deal which will roll out Gmail and Google Apps to about 30,000 employees throughout the city. "The City of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the nation, made a world-class decision today to support a state-of-the-art e-mail system," said Tony Cardenas an L.A. City Councilman. Most of the concerns regarding the switch surrounded privacy,...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... for free. "The titans are fighting, and they all want our attention," said Councilman Tony Cardenas, who sponsored the legislation granting the contract to Google. The vote came amid a push by Mountain View-based Google to market its "cloud computing" services – applications that run remotely on the company's own servers instead of users' desktop machines...
