This keyword cloud analyzes the text of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first State of the City speech, delivered April 18.

What are keyword clouds? You've seen these on Flickr and some blogging sites. They list commonly-occurring words in a body of text, giving greater visual weight to those that appear more often. They're used for distilling a large amount of text into something that can be processed in a glance. Of course, they lack any kind of context, but who needs that? (We're kidding.)

Hold your mouse over a word for a moment to see how many times it appeared in the text of the speech.

State of the City Address
April 18, 2006 [full text]
accelerate accelerated account accountability ambitions angelenos angeles budget build change choices city communities community crime day elected face funding future give global great la leaders los million neighborhood officers parents people pick plan power program public put reform school schools single south state system teachers time tough traffic work years
Length: 3,587 words










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