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Article: Villaraigosa sworn in with festivities in Los Angeles
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- July 5, 2005
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Robert Faturechi
University Wire
07-05-2005
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- Antonio Villaraigosa urged Angelinos to dream big and come together after he was sworn in Friday morning as the new mayor of Los Angeles on the steps of City Hall, becoming the city's first Latino mayor in more than a century.
"We need to start thinking big again and facing up to our biggest challenges," Villaraigosa said, energetically addressing a crowd of a few thousand spectators gathered on the City Hall lawn. "I intend to be a mayor who confronts those challenges."
The former teachers' union organizer and UCLA alumnus promised to make the city's faltering K-12 schools a priority during his time in ...