November 16, 2025 • 32 mins
LA's city controller says he's no longer a Democrat and looks forward to other progressive leaders being elected in the city, specifically calling for more like New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani; the LA city council has tightened its rent control ordinance to the chagrin of landlords; the city council voices its opposition to a proposed Gondola between Dodger Stadium and Union Station; and Michael Monks gets a new cat from the streets of Skid Row.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
This is Michael Monks Reports on Michael Monks from KFI
News with you for another hour here on this rainy
night in southern California. The Ohio State Buckeyes really rained
down on the UCLA Bruins in Columbus that game, just
wrapping up the number one Buckeyes, crushing the Bruins forty
eight to ten, so that kills the hopes of UCLA
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clawing into a ballgame this year. After a rocky start
of the season, they put together a three game winning
streak that feels like a lifetime ago now though as
they fall to three and seven on the season. The
Trojans of USC, however, seventeenth ranked, had no problem in
the rain today, taking care of Iowa twenty six to
twenty one. USC is now eight and two, with their
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long shot hope to make the college football playoff still alive. Meanwhile,
here in Los Angeles, outside of the sports realm, in
the political world, there are some folks who are very
excited about an election that took place on the other
side of the country in New York City, where Zoran
Mamdani was elected mayor now you have probably heard of
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this guy because he got a lot of press coverage.
And that's because he identifies, at least in part, as
a socialist, and some of his policies are connected to
socialist ideology, and that fires people up in the political
commentary sphere, and it also excites some folks who agree
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with those sentiments. And there are people in the city
of Los Angeles who are already elected to city office
who are sympathetic to that point of view. In just
this week, city Controller Kenneth Mahea, who had previously run
two failed congressional campaigns as a Green Party candidate, one
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office in Los Angeles as a Democrat, and now he
says he is no longer a Democrat. And in a
separate post he talked about the Mom Donnie effect here
in La. Here's City Controller Kenneth Mahea talking about leaving
the Democratic Party and then talking about how LA already
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has some Mamdanni types. This is again the city Controller,
Kenneth Mahiah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have a.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Confession to make. I know this may be controversial, especially
here in Los Angeles, but I am not a Democrat
and I will not be seeking the endorsement from politicians
oh No. In twenty twenty two, our underdog grassroots campaign
received the most votes ever in City of La elections,
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over five hundred and thirteen thousand votes, without the support
of the political establishment. It wasn't an easy decision for me,
but in January twenty twenty four, I decided to the
Democratic Party. I decided I could no longer be part
of a party that pays for bombs to be dropped
overseas while people here in America and in La are
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struggling to put food on the table and a roof
over their head. As city controller, it's my job to
show you where your tax dollars are going, how they're
being spent, provide recommendations how we can spend it better,
even if it makes those in city hall uncomfortable. City
elections are actually a nonpartisan That's why as your city controller,
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I will remain your independent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Check in city hall.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Will the City of La elect their owns or amandani well,
the way the City of La government is structured, La
has elected many Zorans already, starting in twenty twenty, when
Angelino's elected council member Nittia A. Raman in District I
audisis Hernandez in District I google to nineteen, is in
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District thirteen, and Isabelhado in District fourteen, and of course
yours truly can't me here for a city controller.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Now on June second, twenty twenty six, you will actually
have the opportunity to elect more so on type progressive candidates.
There are eleven elections up for grabs. All the odd
numbers for council districts are upper grabs, which there are fifteen.
The mayor, the city Controller, myself and your city attorney.
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So there are so many opportunities y'all to get involved.
You just have to get involved now because time is ticking.
And of course, as your city controller, I'm going to
continue to provide the transparency, the accountability and give the
recommendations that might not make those in city hall happy,
but we need people in office who are going to
take the work that we do and carry out those
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recommendations and use and act upon the work that we
do to make good things happen for you all, all right,
so please get involved. June second, twenty twenty thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That is City Controller Kenneth Mahia, who announced that he
is no longer a Democrat, and also that he is
looking forward to more Mom Donnie type politicians being elected
in Los Angeles, noting that there are already some in office,
including himself and four members of the LA City Council
he named checked Nythia Rahman, Unsses, Hernandez Hugo Soto Martinez
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and Isabelle Herado. There was a watch party covered by
the La Times on election day where Democratic Socialists in
this city waited for election returns in that city, New York,
and excitedly watched the returns favor Zoron Mamdani and what
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you have heard from the Democratic Socialists of America according
to this reporting from the LA Times is the mayor's
office is perhaps not as important in LA. It doesn't
have the same level of executive authority as it is
getting a full control of the city council. There are
fifteen city council seats. The DSA aligned elected officials currently
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have four of them. That they could get eight. Then
they've completely tipped the scales in their favor, and that
seems to be the goal of the Democratic Socialist in
Los Angeles. They recognize that the real power in the
city lies with the legislative body rather than the executive.
There is a DSA aligned individual who was announced a
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campaign against Mayor Bass. However, the LA Times reports that
Ray Hwang that is a female spelling of Ray R.
She's a forty three year old community organizer, a minister,
and a dues paying member of the LA chapter of
the Democratic Socialists of America. She's not known, according to
this reporting, never heard of her either, but is currently
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the deputy director of Housing Now California, which is described
as a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the
state and local levels. She plans to launch her campaign tomorrow.
This reporting says that she is shying away from comparisons
to Mom Donnie, the Democratic Socialist who was elected mayor
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of New York City last week. She has not been
endorsed by DSA LA, but says she hopes to be,
and what she has told the LA Times is that
we are in a place in our country and in
our political environment where folks feel stuck and afraid. They
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feel like nothing is going to change, and the things
that are changing are making things even worse. Meanwhile, back
at that watch party where local officials celebrated the election,
of Zoron Mamdani in New York, Councilwoman Unsices Hernandez told
New York's Excuse Me, told the La Times, what New
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York City is saying is that the rent is too
damn high, that affordability is a huge issue, not just
on housing, but when it comes to grocery shopping, when
it comes to daycare. These are the things that we're
also experiencing here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So there are.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Obviously direct comparisons to what the goal of the new
mayor in New York City is and what are the
policies that are being fought for already in Los Angeles.
And we saw that happen just this week at LA
City Hall, where DSA Ligne City Councilwoman Nythia Rahman pushed
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for tighter rent control in the city and that is
upset local developers. In fact, one landlord called out the
Democratic Socialist in LA for guiding the council down this road.
I'll take you back to LA City Hall coming up next,
so that you can hear from Councilman Ramin about why
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she thinks it's necessary to tighten rent control in the
city of Los Angeles and why landlords say this is
going to kill their business and maybe development of further
housing in the city of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, you've probably
heard of that alternative form of transportation that could take
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people to Dodgers' games from Union Station. It's not a bus,
it's not a car, it's not a train, it is
a gondola. The DSA aligned council woman Unices Hernandez let
a fight at city Hall to get the entire city
council on record against that. You'll hear from her a
little bit later right here on Michael Monk's reports when
we continue.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And Michael Monks from KFI News, thank you for being
with us on this rainy Saturday night across southern California.
In our previous segment, you heard talking about City Controller
Kenneth Mohea, who says he's no longer a Democrat. He
can't be a part of a party that supports dropping
bombs on places while people here go hungry, that sort
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of thing, and also to express his support for the
newly elected mayor of New York City, Zorn mom Donnie,
who is identified with the Democratic Socialist of America, so
it is Kenneth Bia. He also named checked for members
of the local city council in LA who are also
affiliated with this group, and basically says he hopes for
more to get elected at La City Hall.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
One of the priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Of the Democratic Socialist is a stricter rent control ordinance,
and the city council adopted one just this week, much
to the chagrin of landlords. DSA affiliated City councilwoman Nithia
Rahman led the charge on this. Here's what she said
about rent control.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
We have had a system that has allowed rent to
rise above inflation year after year, in fact, from more
than twenty of the past forty years that we've had
this ordinance in place, and because we've had vacancy decontrol
and half of units turn over every four to five years,
rents in our rent stabilized housing stock have risen a lot,
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part and parcel of the skyrocketing cost of rents across
the entire city. Only greater supply will sustainably reduce costs
for all renters in LA. But I also believe that
our rent stabilization formula is overdue for a change. And
while I believe there is widespread agreement on this body
that a change is needed at this time. I also
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know that there are real differences around this horseshoe in
how we make those changes today. Those were apparent even
in committee.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What the council woman there is talking about our rent
stabilized units. This is not rent control just outright across
the entire city. So if you're paying three or four
thousand dollars for your apartment, you still will be. These
are units that have been designated as rent stabilized, means
their rent can only go up a designated amount at maximum.
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Prior to the vote this week, that was about eight percent,
which could seem like a lot, especially if you're paying
three thousand dollars, but these folks are not. You might
have some folks who are paying eight hundred and fifty
dollars a month in Los Angeles or one bedroom apartment,
which is quite a steal. The plan, as presented by
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Councilman Rahman, was to change that maximum increase to three percent,
but also to allow only for an increase at sixty
percent the rate of inflation. So when it came time
for an annual rent increase for rent stabilized units, a
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landlord had to consider three percent of the rent or
sixty percent the rate of inflation, which ever one is
less and you could go no higher. But you heard
the councilman there say, she knows that the entire council
seems to be in favor of some sort of reform
of the original formula. But they're not completely sold on
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that three percent slash sixty percent the rate of inflation
proposal that was before them. Here's Councilman John Lee.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
This sends the message, do not build here, do not
invest in Los Angeles, do not keep your units on
the market. We've seen what happens in cities that have
taken this similar approach. In places like San Francisco, Berlin, Stockholm,
strict ren control measures led to fewer available homes as
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property owners sold, converted, or withdrew their units from the market.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
The result was the.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Same each time, fewer rentals and longer waitless.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So one of the concerns that housing advocates in LA
have expressed is that there's not enough housing here to
begin with, and that rent could be cheaper if there
were more supply. The councilman there says, if we endorse
this type of policy stricter rent control, there will continue
to be less supply, further constricting the market. The negotiations
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on the floor of the City Council led to a
bit of a compromise. They have capped the allowable rent
increase at four percent and ninety percent the rate of inflation.
So whichever one is less a four percent rate increase
or an increase at ninety percent the rate of inflation,
that is what landlords of rent subsidized units will be
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allowed to do. That there is a floor, they call
it of one percent. Previously the recommendation was no floor
at all, so there could be some years where landlords
would not be able to raise the rents one cent.
That really upset landlords. We're not always sympathetic figures, let's
be clear, but not all landlords are massive conglomerates. Some
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of them own a fore family and maybe wanted to
participate in the rent stabilization program out of the goodness
of their hearts. One of those landlords who spoke at
City Hall is Danielle Moskowitz.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
There's no urgency to change the CPI or other other
than the false one that's created by the DSA and
the Coalition to redistribute private property from landowners to the
land list. This is on their website. That is clearly
stated here. Also, their goal is to live where they want,
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with whom they want, and how they want. So they
are using you, ladies and gentlemen to meet their ends
by creating a problem to exploit which will never be solved.
In this way, there is no there is no need
to reduce the CPI doesn't work and doesn't cover landlord
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cost Anyways, California's rental housing is undergoing major shifts, some
of uhis are devastating. The current rental housing situation in
Los Angeles is that rents are resetting. The rents have
declined eight percent in twenty twenty five. It is the
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steepest drop since twenty oh nine. Vacancy rates are over
four percent, with property owners having to offer free pre
parking and other incentives.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You heard that landlord Danielle Moscowitz call out the Democratic
Socialists of America directly saying that they are the ones
guiding the city council down this path and that it
would be damaging.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Here's more.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Current inflation is only three percent yet March twenty twenty five.
Costs to reduce my electrical system in my building was
twenty three thousand in October, the same work is forty thousand.
Insurance if you can get it has increased to almost double.
You can't offer a negative return of inflation plus costs
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and expect me to continue to provide a service that
is a violation of the thirteenth Commandment, which is abolished
slavery and involuntary servitude.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So that may be a little bit over the top,
but the point is taken right. I mean this is
it's an expensive time to do anything. You heard the
price that she named there to redo her electric in
one of the buildings. So the costs are going up
for landlords, and now the revenue that they're able to
extract from these properties through rent has been capped, and
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that makes the investment less attractive. So we'll have to
see how this plays out. As this city needs more housing.
There are many rules around rent stabilized units that are
not attractive to investors. Not the least of wishes the
fact that there is a limit on how much money
they can make down the road. But did you know
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that if you are a developer and Let's say you
buy a property that has four apartments in it, but
it has a little bit of land, and you want
to tear down that four family and build thirty units
on the land. All of the new units have to
be rent stabilized, not just four that you need to
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replace all of them. So it's a difficult city to
build in. The City of Los Angeles has a proposal
before to build a gondola between Union Station and Dodger Stadium.
This is former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who still owns
the parking lot up there at the stadium. He wants
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this aerial transit program in place. This is not a
decision that the LA City Council will make, but they
made a decision about it this week. Anyway, you will
hear from the council woman representing that district in Chinatown
about why she hates this idea very much. That is
next here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
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This is Michael Monk's Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
We got a about a half hour left together here
on this Saturday night. By the way, the California High
Way Patrol says that pursuit we reported on at the
end of Tiffany Hobbs's program and at the beginning of
this one, that pursuit has ended and they did not
catch the person who was driving a suspected stolen Toyota Sedan.
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It was believed to have been stolen at Ward Avenue
and Cyprus Street in the Compton area. And then we
watched this freeway pursuit on the ninety one. It appears
to have stopped on a neighborhood street somewhere and the
driver got out and the air unit lost sight of
the suspect, and so the police say that there were
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no units on the ground pursuing this car at that point.
So a victory for the bad guys apparently in this
particular chase, as it does happen sometimes. Speaking of crime,
Ellie Metro says it is bringing back its tap to
exit program. If you've ever ridden the train or the bus,
you know you got a little card. You've got to
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tap it to get on the bus or on the train.
Metro earlier this year, in an effort to stop bad
guys from riding the system, implemented a tap to exit program.
So you had to tap your card to leave the
train station, and if you were unable to do so,
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you would be cited. They have found that nearly all
of it, I mean almost one of the violent crime
and even patty crime on the train system in Los
Angeles County is committed by people who did not pay
their fare. So they implemented this tap to exit program
at the North Hollywood station at the end of the
B line and at Union Station where the B and
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the D line go. So they had to remove them
when the LA Fire Department came to them and said,
we weren't really consulted on this, and you know, there
may be fire emergencies that were not taken into consideration,
and so we've got to review this. And what I've
been told is that the LAFD was not really interested
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in doing that. They were prompted by some LA Bus
Riders union, these folks that are affiliated with the DSA
who say all of the transit should be free, and
so they found this little loophole here that was not
followed and got the Fire department to shut this thing down.
Well it's coming back. Long story short, it's coming back.
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Tap to exit. All of those issues have been resolved
and Tap to Exit is not only coming back to
Union Station and North Hollywood, so from the start of
the B Line to the end of it. This line
used to be known as the Red Line. They're adding
it to the Brand News station on the A Line
in Pomona, so that starts Monday. Tap to Exit back
on the La Metro system. La Metro will also have
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the final say over whether there will ever be a
gondola connecting Union Station to Dodger Stadium. This is a
project that's been pushed by Frank McCourt who used to
own the Dodgers. He still owns the parking lot around
Dodger Stadium, so he's still making some money and he
has an idea that this gondola would transport thousands of
folks eight cars off the street and be an interesting
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tourist attraction, but have a couple of different stops. If
you don't know what a gondola is, it's basically like
a ski lift with these little cars on the wires
that people would be at to go from Union Station
to Dodger Stadium. Well, the La City Council is now
on the record officially opposing this project. Here as councilman
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Unices Hernandez.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
The so called gondola. This is not a regional transit solution.
This is not a series proposal to move Angelinos. This
is not public transportation. It's a half a billion dollar gimmick.
It's a private, unsolicited proposal by Frank mccorp. To take
public land to ferry ticket holders to a stadium that's
empty most of the year. They told us this would
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solve traffic at Dodger Stadium, but a UCLA study found
it would reduce traffic by only zero point nine percent,
just six hundred cars. And what is the price for
this zero point nine percent? Permanently removing two acres of
open space at State Historic Park, removing over one hundred
and sixty trees, gondola's forty feet above Chinatown and Solano
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Canyon homes flying twenty six feet above the La State
Historic Park, adding electric billboards in historic areas, and all
of these impacts for what, so a private parking lot
owner can funnel more money into his portfolio.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It was a unanimous vote by the city council. Now,
the city council does not have jurisdiction over the project exactly,
so what they voted on was a resolution mostly symbolic
urging the board of La Metro, which has a couple
of city council members on it, who recused themselves from
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this vote to their credit to say, do not support
this project any further. You heard council woman Hernandez. There
note that a study by UCLA says it would not
do much for traffic. That report from UCLA came out
in twenty twenty two. It did find the UCLA Mobility
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Lab did find that the gondola likely would take only
around six hundred and eight cars off the road. They
say it is unlikely to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and traffic overall. This study directly says contrary to claims
from La Art, the organization that is formally pushing for
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the gondola, researchers found that the gondola would not significantly
reduce tra around Dodger Stadium. Results showed the gondola would
likely slightly reduce traffic on some roads around the stadium
for a sold out night game and increase traffic on others,
leading to little reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers
also say they found it's unlikely the gondola would contribute
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to a significant net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. Approximately
six hundred and eight cars would be taken off the
road not nearly closed to the three thousand la Art claims,
and they also say that it would carry fewer passengers
than projected by la Art. La Art has originally claimed
that the gondola would carry up the five thousand passengers
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per hour on game days, but these researchers found that
the gondola is likely to carry fewer than a total
of five thousand passengers to Dodger Stadium in total four
six hundred and ninety according to a simulation, even when
the service is provided free with a game ticket for
a sold out night game like the playoffs. A recent
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study by la Art revised its claim, claiming that six
thousand would ride the gondola to games by twenty twenty six,
with four three hundred and fifty arriving to the gondola
via public transportation. The project's draft Environmental Impact Report contains
the same estimate, which corroborates the UCLA estimate of ridership.
If the gondola were in operation today, the la Metro
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board will take up this item soon and will continue
to follow that. There are thousands of people in those
neighborhoods that the councilwoman talked about who do support this project.
By the way, they have signed the petition. Business owners
and residents alike who want this to go forward. Will
continue to well, we'll finish up this program next. A
little Christmas story for you. I have a new member
of my family thanks to a weird turn of events.
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This week on skid row you'll hear about this furry
little punk coming up.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is Michael Monk's reports on this Saturday night in
southern California. I am Michael Monks from kf I knew
so great to be with you again this week. There's
a Christmas tree in this studio and it's November fifteenth.
It's a beautiful tree, kind of a vintage style. Ornaments
of Santa Claus heads, little bears wearing scarves, and little
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Christmas houses and Christmas trees hanging from the Christmas tree.
And you know, I am a firm believer in putting
up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. I'm committed to
that because I believe Thanksgiving is an underrated holiday. It
deserves its own run up. And I'm just not ready
for this, but it is a beautiful tree. And the
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other thing is yesterday I had the great honor of
filling in for Shannon Fair. And I know a lot
of fans were disappointed not to get to see her
at Luchador Brewery and Chino Hills, but I had to
fill in for her at that live event with Gary Hoffman,
and it was so great to meet so many people
on the way driving out there. Our sister station, Coast,
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which plays Christmas music for the season every single year,
flip the switch at eight o'clock yesterday, and I wanted
to hear that switch. I'd never listened to it live.
It's like just a listener before, and I was going
into it kind of cynically, and I'm not really ready
for this, but I'm just curious about what it sounds like.
And they flipped the switch and they played the Christmas
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music and I was kind of vibing with it for
a minute. It's also playing here in the building. Usually
here in the building, the house speakers will rotate between
the various iHeartRadio stations in LA. So you hear a
little KFI, you hear a little LA sports A five seventy.
You'll also hear Coast or MYFM, or Kiss or Real
or Alt. But right now it seems to be just
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completely stuck on Coast and the Christmas music, and it's
just happening. It is Christmas, and I guess I'm okay
with it. It's nice to know that it's coming. There's
no doubt about it. Now you can see it. But
there is a Christmas tree three feet from me right now,
and there's Christmas music playing in the office. And I
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accidentally got a Christmas present for myself on Monday. The
spouse that I have been talking about getting a second cat.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We have a cat. His name is Mitel Frijolees.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's a lovely little kiddie and he's about three and
a half years old now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He's been great.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And we live in a loft apartment downtown though so
a loft is just one big room.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's a thousand square feet. It's lovely. We love our apartment.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But when you get a second cat, all of the
advice is keep these cats separated for a while, let
them start to sniff each other, maybe through a towel
or through a door, and then introduce them slowly. We
don't have that option. We also didn't have any time
to plan for a second cat, even though we wanted one. Incidentally,
on Monday afternoon, he texts me a picture of a
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group of baby little kittens, including a couple of baby
orange kittens in the It's kind of what I wanted,
and we were going to go check these cats out.
So we were moving forward on this. But I got
home Monday night, pulled it into the parking lot, and
for the third day in a row, I saw this
poor little, pathetic gray cat meowing, searching for anything, food, attention, love, somebody.
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And we had fed it the day before, but it
was very scared of us, so we let it be
and we just, you know, went away about our business,
let it go about its business. When I fed it
that night on Monday, it ate so much food so fast,
I knew it was starving. And it came up to
me and started to rubb on my leg, and it
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was so tiny, and I said, this is the one.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Forget the orange kitten. We're taking this one home.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And we got the little kiddy box and we took
it up, and Milo is not all that thrilled when
we bring this cat in.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So we bought a pen, kept the.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Cat in that for a while.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And here we are.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Six days, five days since Dos, as we have named her,
came into our lives, and they're starting to sniff each
other a little more calmly.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Milo was hissing at her.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
She has a little bit back, but you can tell
she's so grateful to be there in the loft.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
We took her to the vet.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She's got her shots, she's been cleaned, and she's not
a kitten. She's just very small. They estimate her age
to be about fifteen months. But now I have two cats,
Milo and Doss, and we are one big, happy family
in downtown Los Angeles. As of today, Milo and Dos
are sniffing each other's faces a little bit without hissing
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at each other. And I bet by this time next
week I'll let you know that we find them cuddled
up together. How's that for a cozy Christmas tale. Thanks
for being with us on this Saturday night. All always
appreciate you appreciate Oliver Boone working the board forest night
as our technical director, Brigitta Tia Gastino in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom is always a great pleasure to
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spend time with on a Saturday night as well, And
I'll be back all next week, of course, bringing you
the news on all of your favorite programs here on KFI,
and then next Saturday, another edition of Michael Monks Reports
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News with you for another hour here on this rainy
night in southern California. The Ohio State Buckeyes really rained
down on the UCLA Bruins in Columbus that game, just
wrapping up the number one Buckeyes, crushing the Bruins forty
eight to ten, so that kills the hopes of UCLA
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clawing into a ballgame this year. After a rocky start
of the season, they put together a three game winning
streak that feels like a lifetime ago now though as
they fall to three and seven on the season. The
Trojans of USC, however, seventeenth ranked, had no problem in
the rain today, taking care of Iowa twenty six to
twenty one. USC is now eight and two, with their
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long shot hope to make the college football playoff still alive. Meanwhile,
here in Los Angeles, outside of the sports realm, in
the political world, there are some folks who are very
excited about an election that took place on the other
side of the country in New York City, where Zoran
Mamdani was elected mayor now you have probably heard of
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this guy because he got a lot of press coverage.
And that's because he identifies, at least in part, as
a socialist, and some of his policies are connected to
socialist ideology, and that fires people up in the political
commentary sphere, and it also excites some folks who agree
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with those sentiments. And there are people in the city
of Los Angeles who are already elected to city office
who are sympathetic to that point of view. In just
this week, city Controller Kenneth Mahea, who had previously run
two failed congressional campaigns as a Green Party candidate, one
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office in Los Angeles as a Democrat, and now he
says he is no longer a Democrat. And in a
separate post he talked about the Mom Donnie effect here
in La. Here's City Controller Kenneth Mahea talking about leaving
the Democratic Party and then talking about how LA already
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has some Mamdanni types. This is again the city Controller,
Kenneth Mahiah.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I have a.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Confession to make. I know this may be controversial, especially
here in Los Angeles, but I am not a Democrat
and I will not be seeking the endorsement from politicians
oh No. In twenty twenty two, our underdog grassroots campaign
received the most votes ever in City of La elections,
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over five hundred and thirteen thousand votes, without the support
of the political establishment. It wasn't an easy decision for me,
but in January twenty twenty four, I decided to the
Democratic Party. I decided I could no longer be part
of a party that pays for bombs to be dropped
overseas while people here in America and in La are
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struggling to put food on the table and a roof
over their head. As city controller, it's my job to
show you where your tax dollars are going, how they're
being spent, provide recommendations how we can spend it better,
even if it makes those in city hall uncomfortable. City
elections are actually a nonpartisan That's why as your city controller,
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I will remain your independent.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Check in city hall.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Will the City of La elect their owns or amandani well,
the way the City of La government is structured, La
has elected many Zorans already, starting in twenty twenty, when
Angelino's elected council member Nittia A. Raman in District I
audisis Hernandez in District I google to nineteen, is in
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District thirteen, and Isabelhado in District fourteen, and of course
yours truly can't me here for a city controller.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
In twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Now on June second, twenty twenty six, you will actually
have the opportunity to elect more so on type progressive candidates.
There are eleven elections up for grabs. All the odd
numbers for council districts are upper grabs, which there are fifteen.
The mayor, the city Controller, myself and your city attorney.
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So there are so many opportunities y'all to get involved.
You just have to get involved now because time is ticking.
And of course, as your city controller, I'm going to
continue to provide the transparency, the accountability and give the
recommendations that might not make those in city hall happy,
but we need people in office who are going to
take the work that we do and carry out those
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recommendations and use and act upon the work that we
do to make good things happen for you all, all right,
so please get involved. June second, twenty twenty thank you.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That is City Controller Kenneth Mahia, who announced that he
is no longer a Democrat, and also that he is
looking forward to more Mom Donnie type politicians being elected
in Los Angeles, noting that there are already some in office,
including himself and four members of the LA City Council
he named checked Nythia Rahman, Unsses, Hernandez Hugo Soto Martinez
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and Isabelle Herado. There was a watch party covered by
the La Times on election day where Democratic Socialists in
this city waited for election returns in that city, New York,
and excitedly watched the returns favor Zoron Mamdani and what
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you have heard from the Democratic Socialists of America according
to this reporting from the LA Times is the mayor's
office is perhaps not as important in LA. It doesn't
have the same level of executive authority as it is
getting a full control of the city council. There are
fifteen city council seats. The DSA aligned elected officials currently
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have four of them. That they could get eight. Then
they've completely tipped the scales in their favor, and that
seems to be the goal of the Democratic Socialist in
Los Angeles. They recognize that the real power in the
city lies with the legislative body rather than the executive.
There is a DSA aligned individual who was announced a
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campaign against Mayor Bass. However, the LA Times reports that
Ray Hwang that is a female spelling of Ray R.
She's a forty three year old community organizer, a minister,
and a dues paying member of the LA chapter of
the Democratic Socialists of America. She's not known, according to
this reporting, never heard of her either, but is currently
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the deputy director of Housing Now California, which is described
as a coalition that fights displacement of tenants at the
state and local levels. She plans to launch her campaign tomorrow.
This reporting says that she is shying away from comparisons
to Mom Donnie, the Democratic Socialist who was elected mayor
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of New York City last week. She has not been
endorsed by DSA LA, but says she hopes to be,
and what she has told the LA Times is that
we are in a place in our country and in
our political environment where folks feel stuck and afraid. They
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feel like nothing is going to change, and the things
that are changing are making things even worse. Meanwhile, back
at that watch party where local officials celebrated the election,
of Zoron Mamdani in New York, Councilwoman Unsices Hernandez told
New York's Excuse Me, told the La Times, what New
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York City is saying is that the rent is too
damn high, that affordability is a huge issue, not just
on housing, but when it comes to grocery shopping, when
it comes to daycare. These are the things that we're
also experiencing here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
So there are.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Obviously direct comparisons to what the goal of the new
mayor in New York City is and what are the
policies that are being fought for already in Los Angeles.
And we saw that happen just this week at LA
City Hall, where DSA Ligne City Councilwoman Nythia Rahman pushed
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for tighter rent control in the city and that is
upset local developers. In fact, one landlord called out the
Democratic Socialist in LA for guiding the council down this road.
I'll take you back to LA City Hall coming up next,
so that you can hear from Councilman Ramin about why
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she thinks it's necessary to tighten rent control in the
city of Los Angeles and why landlords say this is
going to kill their business and maybe development of further
housing in the city of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, you've probably
heard of that alternative form of transportation that could take
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people to Dodgers' games from Union Station. It's not a bus,
it's not a car, it's not a train, it is
a gondola. The DSA aligned council woman Unices Hernandez let
a fight at city Hall to get the entire city
council on record against that. You'll hear from her a
little bit later right here on Michael Monk's reports when
we continue.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
You're listening to KFI Am six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And Michael Monks from KFI News, thank you for being
with us on this rainy Saturday night across southern California.
In our previous segment, you heard talking about City Controller
Kenneth Mohea, who says he's no longer a Democrat. He
can't be a part of a party that supports dropping
bombs on places while people here go hungry, that sort
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of thing, and also to express his support for the
newly elected mayor of New York City, Zorn mom Donnie,
who is identified with the Democratic Socialist of America, so
it is Kenneth Bia. He also named checked for members
of the local city council in LA who are also
affiliated with this group, and basically says he hopes for
more to get elected at La City Hall.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
One of the priorities.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Of the Democratic Socialist is a stricter rent control ordinance,
and the city council adopted one just this week, much
to the chagrin of landlords. DSA affiliated City councilwoman Nithia
Rahman led the charge on this. Here's what she said
about rent control.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
We have had a system that has allowed rent to
rise above inflation year after year, in fact, from more
than twenty of the past forty years that we've had
this ordinance in place, and because we've had vacancy decontrol
and half of units turn over every four to five years,
rents in our rent stabilized housing stock have risen a lot,
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part and parcel of the skyrocketing cost of rents across
the entire city. Only greater supply will sustainably reduce costs
for all renters in LA. But I also believe that
our rent stabilization formula is overdue for a change. And
while I believe there is widespread agreement on this body
that a change is needed at this time. I also
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know that there are real differences around this horseshoe in
how we make those changes today. Those were apparent even
in committee.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
What the council woman there is talking about our rent
stabilized units. This is not rent control just outright across
the entire city. So if you're paying three or four
thousand dollars for your apartment, you still will be. These
are units that have been designated as rent stabilized, means
their rent can only go up a designated amount at maximum.
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Prior to the vote this week, that was about eight percent,
which could seem like a lot, especially if you're paying
three thousand dollars, but these folks are not. You might
have some folks who are paying eight hundred and fifty
dollars a month in Los Angeles or one bedroom apartment,
which is quite a steal. The plan, as presented by
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Councilman Rahman, was to change that maximum increase to three percent,
but also to allow only for an increase at sixty
percent the rate of inflation. So when it came time
for an annual rent increase for rent stabilized units, a
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landlord had to consider three percent of the rent or
sixty percent the rate of inflation, which ever one is
less and you could go no higher. But you heard
the councilman there say, she knows that the entire council
seems to be in favor of some sort of reform
of the original formula. But they're not completely sold on
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that three percent slash sixty percent the rate of inflation
proposal that was before them. Here's Councilman John Lee.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
This sends the message, do not build here, do not
invest in Los Angeles, do not keep your units on
the market. We've seen what happens in cities that have
taken this similar approach. In places like San Francisco, Berlin, Stockholm,
strict ren control measures led to fewer available homes as
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property owners sold, converted, or withdrew their units from the market.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
The result was the.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
Same each time, fewer rentals and longer waitless.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
So one of the concerns that housing advocates in LA
have expressed is that there's not enough housing here to
begin with, and that rent could be cheaper if there
were more supply. The councilman there says, if we endorse
this type of policy stricter rent control, there will continue
to be less supply, further constricting the market. The negotiations
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on the floor of the City Council led to a
bit of a compromise. They have capped the allowable rent
increase at four percent and ninety percent the rate of inflation.
So whichever one is less a four percent rate increase
or an increase at ninety percent the rate of inflation,
that is what landlords of rent subsidized units will be
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allowed to do. That there is a floor, they call
it of one percent. Previously the recommendation was no floor
at all, so there could be some years where landlords
would not be able to raise the rents one cent.
That really upset landlords. We're not always sympathetic figures, let's
be clear, but not all landlords are massive conglomerates. Some
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of them own a fore family and maybe wanted to
participate in the rent stabilization program out of the goodness
of their hearts. One of those landlords who spoke at
City Hall is Danielle Moskowitz.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Here's part of what she had to say.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
There's no urgency to change the CPI or other other
than the false one that's created by the DSA and
the Coalition to redistribute private property from landowners to the
land list. This is on their website. That is clearly
stated here. Also, their goal is to live where they want,
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with whom they want, and how they want. So they
are using you, ladies and gentlemen to meet their ends
by creating a problem to exploit which will never be solved.
In this way, there is no there is no need
to reduce the CPI doesn't work and doesn't cover landlord
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cost Anyways, California's rental housing is undergoing major shifts, some
of uhis are devastating. The current rental housing situation in
Los Angeles is that rents are resetting. The rents have
declined eight percent in twenty twenty five. It is the
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steepest drop since twenty oh nine. Vacancy rates are over
four percent, with property owners having to offer free pre
parking and other incentives.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You heard that landlord Danielle Moscowitz call out the Democratic
Socialists of America directly saying that they are the ones
guiding the city council down this path and that it
would be damaging.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Here's more.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Current inflation is only three percent yet March twenty twenty five.
Costs to reduce my electrical system in my building was
twenty three thousand in October, the same work is forty thousand.
Insurance if you can get it has increased to almost double.
You can't offer a negative return of inflation plus costs
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and expect me to continue to provide a service that
is a violation of the thirteenth Commandment, which is abolished
slavery and involuntary servitude.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
So that may be a little bit over the top,
but the point is taken right. I mean this is
it's an expensive time to do anything. You heard the
price that she named there to redo her electric in
one of the buildings. So the costs are going up
for landlords, and now the revenue that they're able to
extract from these properties through rent has been capped, and
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that makes the investment less attractive. So we'll have to
see how this plays out. As this city needs more housing.
There are many rules around rent stabilized units that are
not attractive to investors. Not the least of wishes the
fact that there is a limit on how much money
they can make down the road. But did you know
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that if you are a developer and Let's say you
buy a property that has four apartments in it, but
it has a little bit of land, and you want
to tear down that four family and build thirty units
on the land. All of the new units have to
be rent stabilized, not just four that you need to
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replace all of them. So it's a difficult city to
build in. The City of Los Angeles has a proposal
before to build a gondola between Union Station and Dodger Stadium.
This is former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, who still owns
the parking lot up there at the stadium. He wants
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this aerial transit program in place. This is not a
decision that the LA City Council will make, but they
made a decision about it this week. Anyway, you will
hear from the council woman representing that district in Chinatown
about why she hates this idea very much. That is
next here on Michael Monks Reports.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
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This is Michael Monk's Reports on Michael Monks from KFI News.
We got a about a half hour left together here
on this Saturday night. By the way, the California High
Way Patrol says that pursuit we reported on at the
end of Tiffany Hobbs's program and at the beginning of
this one, that pursuit has ended and they did not
catch the person who was driving a suspected stolen Toyota Sedan.
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It was believed to have been stolen at Ward Avenue
and Cyprus Street in the Compton area. And then we
watched this freeway pursuit on the ninety one. It appears
to have stopped on a neighborhood street somewhere and the
driver got out and the air unit lost sight of
the suspect, and so the police say that there were
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no units on the ground pursuing this car at that point.
So a victory for the bad guys apparently in this
particular chase, as it does happen sometimes. Speaking of crime,
Ellie Metro says it is bringing back its tap to
exit program. If you've ever ridden the train or the bus,
you know you got a little card. You've got to
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tap it to get on the bus or on the train.
Metro earlier this year, in an effort to stop bad
guys from riding the system, implemented a tap to exit program.
So you had to tap your card to leave the
train station, and if you were unable to do so,
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you would be cited. They have found that nearly all
of it, I mean almost one of the violent crime
and even patty crime on the train system in Los
Angeles County is committed by people who did not pay
their fare. So they implemented this tap to exit program
at the North Hollywood station at the end of the
B line and at Union Station where the B and
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the D line go. So they had to remove them
when the LA Fire Department came to them and said,
we weren't really consulted on this, and you know, there
may be fire emergencies that were not taken into consideration,
and so we've got to review this. And what I've
been told is that the LAFD was not really interested
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in doing that. They were prompted by some LA Bus
Riders union, these folks that are affiliated with the DSA
who say all of the transit should be free, and
so they found this little loophole here that was not
followed and got the Fire department to shut this thing down.
Well it's coming back. Long story short, it's coming back.
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Tap to exit. All of those issues have been resolved
and Tap to Exit is not only coming back to
Union Station and North Hollywood, so from the start of
the B Line to the end of it. This line
used to be known as the Red Line. They're adding
it to the Brand News station on the A Line
in Pomona, so that starts Monday. Tap to Exit back
on the La Metro system. La Metro will also have
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the final say over whether there will ever be a
gondola connecting Union Station to Dodger Stadium. This is a
project that's been pushed by Frank McCourt who used to
own the Dodgers. He still owns the parking lot around
Dodger Stadium, so he's still making some money and he
has an idea that this gondola would transport thousands of
folks eight cars off the street and be an interesting
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tourist attraction, but have a couple of different stops. If
you don't know what a gondola is, it's basically like
a ski lift with these little cars on the wires
that people would be at to go from Union Station
to Dodger Stadium. Well, the La City Council is now
on the record officially opposing this project. Here as councilman
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Unices Hernandez.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
The so called gondola. This is not a regional transit solution.
This is not a series proposal to move Angelinos. This
is not public transportation. It's a half a billion dollar gimmick.
It's a private, unsolicited proposal by Frank mccorp. To take
public land to ferry ticket holders to a stadium that's
empty most of the year. They told us this would
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solve traffic at Dodger Stadium, but a UCLA study found
it would reduce traffic by only zero point nine percent,
just six hundred cars. And what is the price for
this zero point nine percent? Permanently removing two acres of
open space at State Historic Park, removing over one hundred
and sixty trees, gondola's forty feet above Chinatown and Solano
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Canyon homes flying twenty six feet above the La State
Historic Park, adding electric billboards in historic areas, and all
of these impacts for what, so a private parking lot
owner can funnel more money into his portfolio.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It was a unanimous vote by the city council. Now,
the city council does not have jurisdiction over the project exactly,
so what they voted on was a resolution mostly symbolic
urging the board of La Metro, which has a couple
of city council members on it, who recused themselves from
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this vote to their credit to say, do not support
this project any further. You heard council woman Hernandez. There
note that a study by UCLA says it would not
do much for traffic. That report from UCLA came out
in twenty twenty two. It did find the UCLA Mobility
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Lab did find that the gondola likely would take only
around six hundred and eight cars off the road. They
say it is unlikely to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and traffic overall. This study directly says contrary to claims
from La Art, the organization that is formally pushing for
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the gondola, researchers found that the gondola would not significantly
reduce tra around Dodger Stadium. Results showed the gondola would
likely slightly reduce traffic on some roads around the stadium
for a sold out night game and increase traffic on others,
leading to little reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The researchers
also say they found it's unlikely the gondola would contribute
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to a significant net decrease in greenhouse gas emissions. Approximately
six hundred and eight cars would be taken off the
road not nearly closed to the three thousand la Art claims,
and they also say that it would carry fewer passengers
than projected by la Art. La Art has originally claimed
that the gondola would carry up the five thousand passengers
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per hour on game days, but these researchers found that
the gondola is likely to carry fewer than a total
of five thousand passengers to Dodger Stadium in total four
six hundred and ninety according to a simulation, even when
the service is provided free with a game ticket for
a sold out night game like the playoffs. A recent
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study by la Art revised its claim, claiming that six
thousand would ride the gondola to games by twenty twenty six,
with four three hundred and fifty arriving to the gondola
via public transportation. The project's draft Environmental Impact Report contains
the same estimate, which corroborates the UCLA estimate of ridership.
If the gondola were in operation today, the la Metro
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board will take up this item soon and will continue
to follow that. There are thousands of people in those
neighborhoods that the councilwoman talked about who do support this project.
By the way, they have signed the petition. Business owners
and residents alike who want this to go forward. Will
continue to well, we'll finish up this program next. A
little Christmas story for you. I have a new member
of my family thanks to a weird turn of events.
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This week on skid row you'll hear about this furry
little punk coming up.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
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Speaker 2 (27:00):
This is Michael Monk's reports on this Saturday night in
southern California. I am Michael Monks from kf I knew
so great to be with you again this week. There's
a Christmas tree in this studio and it's November fifteenth.
It's a beautiful tree, kind of a vintage style. Ornaments
of Santa Claus heads, little bears wearing scarves, and little
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Christmas houses and Christmas trees hanging from the Christmas tree.
And you know, I am a firm believer in putting
up Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. I'm committed to
that because I believe Thanksgiving is an underrated holiday. It
deserves its own run up. And I'm just not ready
for this, but it is a beautiful tree. And the
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other thing is yesterday I had the great honor of
filling in for Shannon Fair. And I know a lot
of fans were disappointed not to get to see her
at Luchador Brewery and Chino Hills, but I had to
fill in for her at that live event with Gary Hoffman,
and it was so great to meet so many people
on the way driving out there. Our sister station, Coast,
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which plays Christmas music for the season every single year,
flip the switch at eight o'clock yesterday, and I wanted
to hear that switch. I'd never listened to it live.
It's like just a listener before, and I was going
into it kind of cynically, and I'm not really ready
for this, but I'm just curious about what it sounds like.
And they flipped the switch and they played the Christmas
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music and I was kind of vibing with it for
a minute. It's also playing here in the building. Usually
here in the building, the house speakers will rotate between
the various iHeartRadio stations in LA. So you hear a
little KFI, you hear a little LA sports A five seventy.
You'll also hear Coast or MYFM, or Kiss or Real
or Alt. But right now it seems to be just
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completely stuck on Coast and the Christmas music, and it's
just happening. It is Christmas, and I guess I'm okay
with it. It's nice to know that it's coming. There's
no doubt about it. Now you can see it. But
there is a Christmas tree three feet from me right now,
and there's Christmas music playing in the office. And I
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accidentally got a Christmas present for myself on Monday. The
spouse that I have been talking about getting a second cat.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
We have a cat. His name is Mitel Frijolees.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's a lovely little kiddie and he's about three and
a half years old now.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
He's been great.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
And we live in a loft apartment downtown though so
a loft is just one big room.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
It's a thousand square feet. It's lovely. We love our apartment.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
But when you get a second cat, all of the
advice is keep these cats separated for a while, let
them start to sniff each other, maybe through a towel
or through a door, and then introduce them slowly. We
don't have that option. We also didn't have any time
to plan for a second cat, even though we wanted one. Incidentally,
on Monday afternoon, he texts me a picture of a
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group of baby little kittens, including a couple of baby
orange kittens in the It's kind of what I wanted,
and we were going to go check these cats out.
So we were moving forward on this. But I got
home Monday night, pulled it into the parking lot, and
for the third day in a row, I saw this
poor little, pathetic gray cat meowing, searching for anything, food, attention, love, somebody.
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And we had fed it the day before, but it
was very scared of us, so we let it be
and we just, you know, went away about our business,
let it go about its business. When I fed it
that night on Monday, it ate so much food so fast,
I knew it was starving. And it came up to
me and started to rubb on my leg, and it
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was so tiny, and I said, this is the one.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Forget the orange kitten. We're taking this one home.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
And we got the little kiddy box and we took
it up, and Milo is not all that thrilled when
we bring this cat in.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So we bought a pen, kept the.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Cat in that for a while.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
And here we are.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Six days, five days since Dos, as we have named her,
came into our lives, and they're starting to sniff each
other a little more calmly.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Milo was hissing at her.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
She has a little bit back, but you can tell
she's so grateful to be there in the loft.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
We took her to the vet.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
She's got her shots, she's been cleaned, and she's not
a kitten. She's just very small. They estimate her age
to be about fifteen months. But now I have two cats,
Milo and Doss, and we are one big, happy family
in downtown Los Angeles. As of today, Milo and Dos
are sniffing each other's faces a little bit without hissing
(31:46):
at each other. And I bet by this time next
week I'll let you know that we find them cuddled
up together. How's that for a cozy Christmas tale. Thanks
for being with us on this Saturday night. All always
appreciate you appreciate Oliver Boone working the board forest night
as our technical director, Brigitta Tia Gastino in the KFI
twenty four hour newsroom is always a great pleasure to
(32:08):
spend time with on a Saturday night as well, And
I'll be back all next week, of course, bringing you
the news on all of your favorite programs here on KFI,
and then next Saturday, another edition of Michael Monks Reports
Speaker 1 (32:21):
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