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Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles in a run-off election on May 17, 2005, in which he defeated incumbent mayor James Hahn. Prior to his service as mayor, Villaraigosa was the California State Assemblyman for the 45th District, the Speaker of the California State Assembly, and the Los Angeles City Councilman representing the 14th District. Before being elected to public office, Villaraigosa had a long career as a labor organizer.

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Villaraigosa not a bad mayor, but disappointing: Editorial

Source: L.A. Daily News

it a mixed legacy for the man who swept into the mayoralty with star power and history's wind at his back as Los Angeles' first Latino mayor in more than a century. One last time before he leaves office on July 1, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio ...
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LA Mayor Villaraigosa: 'I Want to Run for Governor'

Source: NewsMax

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa can't run for re-election, but he still has his eyes on politics, saying he'd like to be governor of California one day. "I want to run for governor. In fact, I fully expect that I will," Villaraigosa ...
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Car Ownership is Dropping in Los Angeles as Bikes, Trains Grow

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If Los Angeles can do it, any city can - get out of their cars and onto bikes and trains. No other city is so closely associated with the car - when people think of LA, the first thing that pops into their mind is often the network of endless hi ...
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Chief Beck's Hit-and-Run Crisis

Source: LA Weekly

When Alex Thompson, bicycling advocate and founder of BikesideLA.org, read LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's response last week to a citywide hit-and-run epidemic that LAPD had never acknowledged, Thompson was stunned to fi ...
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New Downtown L.A. Park Latest Victory in Mayor's Open Space Initiative

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"Before a throng of office workers and scruffy-faced hipsters, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday opened Spring Street Park in the heart of the city’s rapidly evolving downtown, telling the crowd that there were more parks to come, includin ...
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L.A.'s Villaraigosa (still) wants to be governor: Opinion

Source: L.A. Daily News

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa addresses delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. (File photo) Villaraigosa told KPCC's Larry Mantle: "I want to run for governor. I ...
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140,000 Los Angeles street lights replaced with energy efficient bulbs

Source: Southern California Public Radio

Los Angeles officials expect to save millions of dollars on the city's light bill now that more than 140,000 street lights have been retrofitted with energy efficient bulbs. In a statement Tuesday, Mayor Anto ...
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Immigration Reform Advocates Hail CBO Deficit Score

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By: Christina Bellantoni and Katelyn Polantz A Colombian immigrant takes her oral citizenship test at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in New York. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images Funny thing ab ...
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