Tag Archives: budget

Catch 22: The Greuel, Garcetti Challenge from Parks’ Budget Talking Points on Reining in Spending, Restoring Services

Posted on March 7, 2013 by

Herb Wesson forfeited all credibility when he failed in his blatant attempt to squeeze $216 million out of taxpayers to please his labor union bosses and the assorted greed merchants who have gotten so rich off of City Hall’s dirty … Continue reading →

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LA’s Budget: Next Year Is Going to Be Worse and So Is the Year After … and the Year After … and the Year After

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana presented a dark and gloomy picture to the City Council Tuesday of the city’s finances with massive deficits totaling more than $1 billion over the next four years. In this the fourth year since the … Continue reading →

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The Billionaire Boys Club Know What’s Best

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

Eli Broad and such stars of the billionaire boys club as Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and investor Nicolas Berggruen have a great idea on how to save California from sinking into an ocean of debt and failed public policy — … Continue reading →

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Don’t Sit Silent: Let City Hall Know You Want the Budget Problem Fixed

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

The City Council takes up the city budget for 2011-12 at 9 a.m. today and the only questions to be resolved is who will be hurt the worst, whose lives will be put at the greatest risk. It would be … Continue reading →

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Previewing Antonio’s New Budget: New Tricks for Old Problems — No Magic, No Solutions

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

Long before Antonio Villaraigosa led LA down the path toward ruin, city leaders papered over its structural deficit — costs exceeding revenue by more than $200 million a year — by borrowing, juggling funds from one account to another and … Continue reading →

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Beutner’s Agenda: No Power Rate Hikes, Less Money for Solar, Recyled Water

Posted on June 14, 2010 by

For all his dismissive talk about “moving forward…not looking back,” Austin Beutner’s DWP budget proposals appear to be an attempt to start cleaning up the past and restoring trust in a rogue agency that has lost all credibility. Billions of … Continue reading →

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The Great Houdinis of City Hall — The Incredible Vanishing Deficit Trick

Posted on May 15, 2010 by

The Great Houdini was the master of illusion, performing magic tricks like no one before or since, exciting the imaginations of the gullible and even the skeptical by escaping from handcuffs, strait jackets and especially from his “Chinese Water Torture … Continue reading →

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Dancing for Dollars — Pratfalls and Missteps of the Budget Ballet

Posted on April 29, 2010 by

Hour after hour, department after department, the worst show on earth — City Hall’s Dancing for Dollars Budget Ballet — is playing out on Channel 35 this week. Just as they have for the past 10 months, City Council members … Continue reading →

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Trutanich Explodes over Mayor’s Budget

Posted on April 22, 2010 by

In a devastating six-page letter Thursday afternoon, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich   accuses Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of “a remarkable lack of leadership and imagination,that puts “public safety and the protection of taxpayer dollars at substantial risk.”Responding to the mayor’s budget proposal … Continue reading →

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Antonio’s Budget Fairy Tale –

Posted on February 28, 2010 by

It is a sign of the times that the mayor has actually been forced to engage the public in discussions, preliminary as they might be, about how LA is going to survive as a city even as it brings spending … Continue reading →

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