Tag Archives: city budget

Moment of Truth: Coming Together to Fix L.A.

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Residents across Los Angeles are fed up with City Hall’s mishandling of our tax dollars and the dangerous elimination of essential services, including cuts in police and fire staffing that endanger the public safety. Neighborhood Councils, resident groups … Continue reading →

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Antonio’s Vanishing Layoff List — Forget 4,000, Forget 2,000 even 1,000; 750 Now Face Transfer or Layoff

Posted on April 19, 2010 by

For all the mayor and City Council’s threat to lay off up to 4,000 city workers on top of the 2,400 paid off to retire and the 400 or so who got transferred to non-general fund jobs, the mayor sent … Continue reading →

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Terms of Endearment: Do You Trust City Hall?

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

“A love cannot be an irresponsible love. It can’t be an easy love. where we say we’ll do whatever even if that’s going to hurt more next year and the year after because it feels easy now.” — Eric Garcetti, … Continue reading →

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Play Now, Pay Later — The Road To Ruin

Posted on August 3, 2009 by

UPDATE: The LACERS pension board delayed a vote today on the city’s planned early retirement program as union leaders stepped up their campaign to derail a controversial proposal for making the city pay off the program’s cost 10 years sooner … Continue reading →

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The Sweetheart Deal: City Hall Will Beg, Borrow and Steal to Protect Unions

Posted on July 3, 2009 by

Here’s the deal (Union-mou-Letter_of_Agreement_2009-06-26_TA[1].pdf) your elected city officials have cut to protect union jobs no matter what the cost to the public, and to the future of the city. It’s eight pages of giveaways and promises to protect union jobs … Continue reading →

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City Budget Mysteries: Dire Consequences of City Hall’s Nasty Money Games

Posted on June 18, 2009 by

Here’s a job for incoming City Controller Wendy Greuel that will test her commitment to fill the shoes of Laura Chick: Give us a full accounting of all the finagles, deceits, borrowings, outright thefts, supplanting of funds and other dirty … Continue reading →

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Blueprint for Bankruptcy: Hearings Start on City Budget, LA’s Future at Stake

Posted on April 26, 2009 by

The future of LA hangs in the balance of 12 days of City Council budget hearings that get under way at 9 a.m. Monday but only a fool like me would hold any hope that the nation’s highest paid — … Continue reading →

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Antonio’s Budget, Part Two: When a Plan Is Not a Plan

Posted on April 21, 2009 by

Contrary to his previous statement, the mayor has proposed cutting the city’s payroll by 10 percent across the board — the “meat cleaver” approach that lets him avoid some of the hard choices between basic city services and social welfare … Continue reading →

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