Tag Archives: layoffs

Rude Awakening: City Hall Discovers How Much Money It Wastes

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

One of the more fascinating aspects of City Hall’s disastrous handling of the budget crisis our public servants created is the mayor and City Council’s sudden discovery that waste, efficiency, mismanagement, incomprehensible policies are major problems they never addressed. Sure, … Continue reading →

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(Ir)Rationalizing City Government: An Exercise in the Pretense of Democracy

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

Three (Bronx) cheers for Antonio Villaraigosa — he boasts today that his decision to kill the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, the central reform that went into the new City Charter a decade ago, will save $2 million. Only $210 million … Continue reading →

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Would Walter Moore or Zuma Dogg Be a Better Mayor?

Posted on February 19, 2010 by

So it’s come to this: Would we better off if Walter Moore or even Zuma Dogg bad beaten Antonio a year ago? I can say with certainty that we wouldn’t be worse off.Think about it: The Mayor with 10 times … Continue reading →

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Panic at City Hall — Start the Recall Petitions!

Posted on February 18, 2010 by

They have gone too far this time — now it’s not 1,000 or 2,000 or even the mayor’s 3,000 layoffs. It’s 4,000 — fully one-third of the narrow band of the 12,000 workers who they have deemed eligible for job … Continue reading →

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No Layoffs, No Payoffs, No Selloffs — Real Budget Solutions, Not Gimmicks

Posted on February 14, 2010 by

The clock is ticking on the mayor’s plan to gut city services and sell its assets, and every day the City Council dawdles revenue falls and the budget deficit grows by nearly $340,000. On Saturday, activists at the Saving LA … Continue reading →

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Antonio Faces the Council: The Movie

Posted on February 9, 2010 by

The mayor can speak for himself and so can the city financial consultants. The crisis could come to head this summer unless a long series of measures proposed by City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana because massive borrowings will be needed … Continue reading →

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1,000 Layoffs — Who Gets Axed? The List

Posted on February 8, 2010 by

The City Council takes up CAO Miguel Santana’s three-year plan to restructure city government Tuesday to reorganize departments, possibly eliminating Human Services, Neighborhood Empowerment and other agencies. He sent his list of the 1,000 positions to be eliminated with some … Continue reading →

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Antonio’s Phantom Layoffs: Eliminating Jobs Doesn’t Mean Eliminating Workers

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

For a moment there, he had me — I thought the Antonio Villaraigosa I had hoped five years ago would save LA from misrule and mismanagement had awakened from his amnesia and was stepping forward to provide the city with … Continue reading →

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Believe It or Not: They Blinked at Budget Cuts and Increased the Deficit

Posted on February 3, 2010 by

At the moment of truth, the nation’s highest paid city officials blinked Wednesday. They blinked at layoffs. They blinked at eliminating or slashing funding for the disabled, for  the elderly, for Neighborhood Councils, for Environment Affairs, Arts, Culture, for just … Continue reading →

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Compounding a Felony: Antonio’s ERIP Caused Chaos and Now His Layoff Plan Is Worse

Posted on January 25, 2010 by

The word is leaking out of City Hall from all directions: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is moving swiftly to get rid of 1,000 or more of the youngest and lowest-paid city workers without a strategic plan to preserve services or get … Continue reading →

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