Silver Lake is once again a lake! Excellent News!
Late this afternoon a state official called to tell me LADWP has promised to start refilling Silver Lake at 8 AM on Wednesday. There will be a press conference. Why? Self-aggrandizement.
I was very happy to get the news, but you heard it here first: I predict (very unhappily) that they will drag out the refilling until it finishes on their all important target date of June 1. That way, they can spin H. David Nahai as a winnah twice: for doing such a great favor to the community as giving back the emergency water he took out, and for being a man of his word who sets and keeps his own deadlines. Not in my book, feller.
And Los Angeles Times, thanks for not helping with any investigation or insight of any kind on this. Was it too local for you? My Paypal donation button is on the bottom of the right column. Do the right thing.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.
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