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COUP? Several League of Cities officers say...

By Jeffrey Perlman, Helene Elliott and Tom McQueeney

COUP? Several League of Cities officers say privately they want to oust county transportation czar Stanley T. Oftelie and bus chief James P. Reichert, and they’ll get their chance next year when the new Orange County Transportation Authority absorbs both men’s agencies. . . . Tollway director William C. Woollett Jr. is being mentioned as a possible new czar. Says Transportation Commissioner Dana W. Reed: “The cities can do this if they want, but that’s not in the interest of the commuter.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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