The Shoes Begin to Drop

The first signs of new mayor Villaraigosa's touch on the the Harbor Comission arrived in this morning's L.A. Times. Everyone figured he would shy away from local leadership, in favour of more professional, if less passioned (and connected to the Hahns) members of the Harbor comission. I'm not too familiar with most of the new comissioners, although I'm sure that Joe Radisich will do a good job representing the ILWU on the board, presuming he is named this morning.

I am however really excited to see S. David Freeman, former L.A. DWP head, named to the harbor omission. Freeman was head of the DWP during the Enron (and Bush/Cheney/Rove/assorted oil shills in D.C. bastards) engineered power shortages/rolling blackout festival. Thanks to good management by the DWP during the crisis, L.A. City proper was spared both the rolling blackouts and the insane energy costs that vampired money from Californians. His tenure at the DWP was marked by an increased priority on both energy independence for the City of Los Angeles and greener, cleaner power. So let's see him work some managerial magic on transitioning the Port to a more responisble and efficient operation.

Of course with local educator & community advocate Camilla Townsend going off the board, that will free up her days to put even more hard work on getting the new Maritime Charter High School (can anybody find a website for this new school? How the heck do you find out how to register your kids and whatnot? Google & the LAUSD website are failing me on this one) up and running this fall.

Update! - Looks like Camilla Townsend has handed off the reigns of the Charter High School. So who's running the show there?