Renewing elephant battle

Using the 20th anniversary of the acquisition of Billy the elephant for the Los Angeles Zoo, Councilman Tony Cardenas on Wednesday revived the debate over whether the city should exhibit elephants. Daily News.

Joined by actress Mariana Tosca, who serves as an animal-welfare adviser to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, and Catherine Doyle of In Defense of Animals, Cardenas renewed his call for the city to abandon its plans for a $42 million pachyderm forest.