Mike Roos

Former Assemblyman Mike Roos donated his political papers to the Center for the Study of Los Angeles on Monday, dramatically swelling the archives at Loyola Marymount University's year-old policy institute. The papers--notes, appointment books and pending legislation files collected over Roos' 14-year tenure with the Assembly--have been held for the last 5 1/2 years in a far less glamorous rental storage facility.

In response to pressure from a key Democratic leader, a joint state legislative conference committee has voted to eliminate two staff positions from the California Arts Council, designating those funds to ethnic-minority programs. Late last month, Assembly Speaker Pro-Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles), a long-time arts supporter, charged that the council's administration was "bloated at the gills."

The attorney for Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles) on Thursday said the U.S. Justice Department has decided not to prosecute Roos in connection with a profitable investment arranged by convicted fireworks magnate W. Patrick Moriarty. "The only thing I can tell you," said John J. Quinn, "is that I have heard the government, after a lengthy investigation, has concluded there is no reason or basis to proceed with the investigation and that there is nothing there."

The Assembly on Thursday narrowly passed legislation aimed at preventing the city of Irwindale from building a football stadium and "giving it" to the Los Angeles Raiders. A 44-29 vote sent the measure to an uncertain fate in the Senate. It is sponsored by Assembly Speaker Pro Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles), who is fighting to keep the Raiders in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Finalists for Los Angeles' top public school post will face the community at three large open forums later this month, the school board decided Monday, adding them to eight smaller invitation-only events. The decision was unanimous, despite a rowdy protest at Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters by Latino activists and others who want to see Deputy Supt. Ruben Zacarias promoted. The job will become open at the end of June, when Supt. Sid Thompson retires.

The state has the power to unilaterally sell the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports Arena, as long as it compensates Los Angeles city and county and bond holders for their shares, according to a state legislative counsel's opinion released Tuesday. The opinion, signed by Legislative Counsel Bion M. Gregory and deputy Alvin D.

Seeking to prevent suggestions of conflict of interest in the continuing W. Patrick Moriarty public corruption probe, U.S. Atty. Robert C. Bonner revealed Thursday that he has removed himself from any decisions on whether to prosecute Assembly Democratic Leader Mike Roos on possible criminal charges in connection with the case. Roos, one of several California politicians under investigation in the continuing probe of Moriarty's activities, is represented by Los Angeles attorney John J.

A legislative attempt to block the Los Angeles Raiders from moving to a new Irwindale stadium gained ground Wednesday when the Assembly Ways and Means Committee approved two bills that would strike at the heart of the proposed financing plan.

Two bills that would have blocked public financing for the proposed Raiders stadium in Irwindale in hopes of keeping the football team in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum were abruptly dropped Thursday by their sponsor, Assemblyman Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles). But Roos said he will seek to advance the same legislation soon by incorporating the provisions in amendments to other bills.

One of the state Assembly's Democratic leaders has blasted the staff of the California Arts Council for spending money on itself that it could be spending on the arts. "The council's administration is bloated at the gills," Speaker Pro-Tem Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles) charged at an Assembly subcommittee hearing here Wednesday. "And its mission has become how can we make life easier for the bureaucrats, instead of how can we fund" artistic achievement.