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environmentalist
New DWP chief David Nahai takes on major challenges
Marc B. Haefele
January 4, 2008
David Nahai is an environmentalist and an attorney, not an engineer, and his major previous management challenge was running a 15-employee law firm. But he is the man Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tapped take on the $304,000-a-year job as general manager of the Department of Water and Power, the nation\’s largest — and frequently troubled — public municipal utility. He\’s also the first ever to helm the DWP without decades of experience in either the utility business or city government.
‘Generation Next’ powow at Professional Leaders Project parley
Danielle Berrin
November 9, 2007
By the end of the Professional Leaders Project gathering in Santa Monica, I walked away with three things: a stack of business cards, some good stories and a condom from KinkyJews.com in a package that featured an Israeli flag on the front and an off-color, yet highly creative tagline we can\’t print here.
Carry On! Venice community gets an eruv approved
Tom Tugend
November 22, 2006
The Shul on the Beach, formally known as the Pacific Jewish Center (PJC), has crowned four years of negotiations to install an eruv along the Pacific shoreline and inland area.The historic Orthodox congregation in Venice finally won approval from the California Coastal Commission to create an unbroken symbolic border to allow observant families to carry basic necessities and push baby strollers beyond the confines of the home on the Sabbath.
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