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Bell, California
Bell is an municipal corporation, incorporated city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located near the center of the former San Antonio Township (abolished after 1960), its population was 33,559 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 35,477 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census. Bell is located on the west bank of the Los Angeles River and is a suburb of the city of Los Angeles. At , Bell is the thirteenth-smallest city in the United States with a population of at least 25,000. In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Bell's land area at 1245 out of 1257 cities (defined as incorporated areas) and two unincorporated areas that had a population of at least 25,000 in year 2000. Ten cities in the list of 1267 cities had no land area data (e.g., Goleta, California). City residents voted to become a charter city in a special municipal election on November 29, 2005. Fewer than 400 voters turned out for that special election. More than half of t ...
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List Of Municipalities In California
California is a U.S. state, state located in the Western United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, most populous state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and of land. California has been inhabited by numerous Indigenous peoples of California, Native American peoples for thousands of years. The Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish, the Russian colonization of the Americas, Russians, and other Europeans began exploring and colonizing the area in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the Spanish establishing its first California Spanish missions in California, mission at what is now Presidio of San Diego, San Diego in 1769. After the Mexican Cession of 1848, the California Gold Rush brought worldwide attention to the area. The growth of the Cinema of the United States, movie industry in Los Angeles ...
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Municipal Corporation
Municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally owned corporations. Municipal corporation as local self-government Municipal incorporation occurs when such municipalities become self-governing entities under the laws of the state or province in which they are located. Often, this event is marked by the award or declaration of a municipal charter. A city charter or town charter or municipal charter is a legal document establishing a municipality, such as a city or town. Bangladesh There are 12 city corporations in Bangladesh. Two of them are located in the capital Dhaka and the remaining 10 are located in the most populous cities of the eight divisions. They carry out major works in the cities and perform socio-economic and civic functions. In addition, there are 330 municipaliti ...
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Bell House
Bell House or Bellhouse may refer to: Places Canada * Bell House (1910), a notable residence in Nutana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada * Bellhouse Provincial Park, British Columbia Ireland * Bell House (Ireland), part of Cambridge House Grammar School's house system named after musician Derek Bell United Kingdom * Bell House Gallery, Buntingford, England * Bell House, Coxwold, almshouse in North Yorkshire * Bell House, Dulwich, England * Ramsden Bellhouse, a village in Essex * Bell House Common, Hanworth, Norfolk, England * Bell House, Milton of Campsie, Stirlingshire, Scotland, a Prospect 100 best modern Scottish building * Bell houses, houses of George Bell United States * Willie Bell House, Mason's Bend, Alabama, a Rural Studio project * Bell House (Prattville, Alabama) * Bell House (Jonesboro, Arkansas) * Lake-Bell House, Prairie Grove, Arkansas * Bell House (Searcy, Arkansas) * James George Bell House, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Los ...
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John Edward Hollenbeck
John Edward Hollenbeck (June 5, 1829 – September 2, 1885) was an American businessman and investor who was involved in the 19th-century development of Nicaragua and the city of Los Angeles, California. Early life J. Edward Hollenbeck was born in Hudson, Ohio, and later moved with his parents to Winnebago County, Illinois. He had limited schooling and, in 1846, decided that he did not wish to be a farmer. With his father's permission, the young man left home to make his own way. After doing day labor for traveling funds, he returned to Ohio and apprenticed himself to learn the machinist's trade with Bell and Chamberlain in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Cuyahoga Falls. He became a master of this trade in three years but declined to join his employers’ business as a partner. In Nicaragua Instead of establishing himself in business in Ohio, young Hollenbeck decided to travel to the California Gold Rush, California gold fields. He took passage on a sailing vessel from New Orleans to Aspi ...
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Rancho San Antonio (Lugo)
Rancho San Antonio is a Spanish land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California that was granted to Antonio Maria Lugo. The rancho included in some part the present-day cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Vernon, Huntington Park, Walnut Park, Cudahy, South Gate, Lynwood, Montebello and Commerce. History Corporal Antonio Maria Lugo, after seventeen years of military service, received his discharge and was granted the Spanish concession Rancho San Antonio in 1810. The grant was confirmed in 1838 to Antonio Maria Lugo by Mexican Governor Juan B. Alvarado. On Rancho San Antonio he built Casa de Rancho San Antonio the oldest home in Los Angeles County, California. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patente ...
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Salinas, California
Salinas (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Salt pan (geology), Salt Flats") is a city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Monterey County, California, Monterey County. With a population of 163,542 in the 2020 Census, Salinas is the most populous city in Monterey County. Salinas is an urban area located along the eastern limits of the Monterey Bay Area, lying just south of the San Francisco Bay Area and southeast of the mouth of the Salinas River (California), Salinas River. The city is located at the mouth of the Salinas Valley, about from the Pacific Ocean, and it has a climate more influenced by the ocean than the interior. Salinas serves as the main business, governmental, and industrial center of the region. The marine climate is ideal for the floral industry, grape vineyards, and vegetable growers. Salinas is known as the "Salad Bowl of the World" for its large, vibrant agriculture industry. It was the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature, No ...
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Mission San Antonio De Padua
Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish missions in California, Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon, California, Jolon. Founded on July 14, 1771, it was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra. The mission was the first use of fired tile roofing in Upper California.Ruscin, p. 196 Today the mission is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Monterey in California, Diocese of Monterey and is no longer active in the Catholic missions, mission work which it was set up to provide. History Beginnings of the Mission Mission San Antonio de Padua was the third Mission to be founded in Alta California, and was located along the very earliest routing of the Camino Real. This mission was located on a site which was unfortunately somewhat remote from the more reliable water source of what later became known as the ...
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Lugo (surname)
Lugo is a Spanish surname named after the city of Lugo in Galicia, Spain. Also Hispanio Celto & Gaulish in orgin ancient Latin. Short for Lugotorix which means Light or Another name for Lughus People with the surname ''de Lugo'' These are patrilineal descendants of the original House of Lugo, a noble family in Lugo. * Álvaro Yáñez de Lugo, Spanish nobleman * Francisco de Lugo (conquistador) (d. 1532), Spanish conquistador, son of Álvaro * Alonso Fernández de Lugo (d. 1525), Spanish conquistador, great-nephew of Álvaro * Pedro Fernández de Lugo (1475–1536), Spanish nobleman, son of Alonso * Francisco Bahamonde de Lugo (d. 1574), Governor of Puerto Rico and Cartagena * Francisco de Lugo (1580–1652) Spanish Jesuit, theologician * John de Lugo (1583–1660), Spanish Jesuit, cardinal, brother of Francisco * Bernardo de Lugo, Spanish linguist, friar and writer from Nueva Granada * Carlos Benites Franquis de Lugo (1691–?), Spanish Governor of Texas * Ron de Lugo (1930– ...
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City Of Bell Scandal
The Bell scandal involved the misappropriation of public funds in Bell, California, United States, over a period of several years in the late 2000s. In July 2010, the ''Los Angeles Times'' published an investigative article on possible malfeasance in the neighboring city of Maywood, revealing that the city officials of Bell received salaries that were reported as the highest in the nation. Subsequent investigations found atypically high property tax rates, allegations of voter fraud in municipal elections and other irregularities which heightened the ensuing scandal. These and other reports led to widespread criticism and a demand for city officials to resign. On August 10, 2010, Standard & Poor's lowered Bell's general obligation and pension bond ratings to BB, two notches below investment grade, and placed the ratings on a watchlist for potential further downgrade. S&P credit analyst Michael Taylor said, "We believe that the recent resignation of the city manager and finance ...
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Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of newspapers in the United States, sixth-largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760. It has 500,000 online subscribers, the fifth-largest among U.S. newspapers. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won over 40 Pulitzer Prizes since its founding. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to Trade union, labor unions, the latter of which led to the Los Angeles Times bombing, bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California and the United Sta ...
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Charter City
Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance (i.e., whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state—typically by legislative action—or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action). Forty of the fifty states apply some form of the principle known as Dillon's Rule, which says that local governments may exercise only powers that the state specifically grants to them, to determine the bounds of a municipal government's legal authority. In some states, known as ''home rule states'', the state's constitution grants municipalities and/or counties the ability to pass various types of laws to govern themselves (so long as the laws do not conflict with the state and federal constitutions). In other states, known as ''Dillon's Rule states'', only limited authority has been granted to local governments by passage of statutes in the state legislat ...
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Goleta, California
Goleta ( ; ; Spanish for "schooner") is a city in southern Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It was incorporated as a city in 2002, after a long period as the largest unincorporated populated area in the county. As of the 2000 census, the census-designated place (CDP) had a total population of 55,204. A significant portion of the census territory of 2000 did not include the newer portions of the city. The population of Goleta was 32,690 at the 2020 census. It is known for being close to the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara). History Early history The area of present-day Goleta was populated for thousands of years by the Chumash people. Locally, they became known, by the Spanish, as ''Canaliños'' as they lived along the coast, adjacent to the Channel Islands. One of the largest villages, ''S'axpilil'', was north of the Goleta Slough, not far from the present-day Santa Barbara Airport. The first known European vi ...
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