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A Job Seeker’s Lament: L.A.’s ARRA Arithmetic — Some Things Just Don’t Add Up

Posted on September 17, 2010 by

By CHELSEA CODY Numbers have long been thought of as a universal language. The vast majority of cultures today use the exact same numeric symbols to communicate quantities of goods and wealth. Mind you, this was a long-drawn-out process, the … Continue reading →

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How City Hall Cuts Costs: Workers Transfered to DWP Get Raises Up To 50 Percent, THE LIST

Posted on March 19, 2010 by

EXCLUSIVE AT OURLA.ORG For all the talk about cutting costs by laying off 4,000 workers, the mayor and City Council arranged to transfer as many workers as possible first from positions paid out of the general fund to proprietary departments … Continue reading →

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Somebody Has Got to Pay for This DWP Outrage

Posted on February 27, 2010 by

EDITOR’S NOTE: Read the consultant’s report recommending massive DWP electricity rate hikes at OurLA.org. You don’t know nothing if you didn’t know this was coming: Massive DWP rate hikes.   How else did you think they were going bail out … Continue reading →

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DONE is Done: Mayor Abolishes Dept. Of Neighborhood Empowerment, Dismantling Starts Next Week

Posted on February 20, 2010 by

At the meeting Friday with Neighborhood Council leaders, Deputy Mayor Larry Frank announced that the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment will be abolished and nearly all its staff eliminated. DONE Commissioner and NC leader Al Abrams sent out an email Saturday … 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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City Pensions Since ERIP: The Facts, The Figures, The List

Posted on February 6, 2010 by

In the first six months after City Hall offered the Early Retirement Incentive Pprgram, 625 workers have actually retired with pensions averaging more than $1,000 a week with 32 of them getting pensions in excess of $100,000 a year, according … Continue reading →

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ERIP, Final Tally: Over-Subscribed by Nearly One-Third

Posted on December 17, 2009 by

The deadline for applying for the city’s costly Early Retirement Incentive Program passed at 5 p.m. Wednesday with more than 3,100 workers seeking the deal limited to 2,400. Read the full story at OurLA.org — the community-based news and information … Continue reading →

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Nuch and the Lemmings: Marijuana and the Selective Enforcement of Laws

Posted on November 18, 2009 by

UPDATE: The City Council delayed a vote for a week and probably longer on a new ordinance implementing the 13-year-old state medical marijuana law. Councilman Ed Reyes and others proposed a long series of amendments intended to gut the City … Continue reading →

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Parks’ Warning: LA Is Going Broke Fast, Faces Layoffs, Cash Flow Crisis, Bankruptcy Threat

Posted on September 5, 2009 by

In a Special Report on OurLA, LA Councilman Bernard Parks portrayed the city’s financial condition in dire terms Saturday, warniing of “severe pain” that is coming.Speaking for more than two hours to the LA Neigbhorhood Council Coalition at a meeting … Continue reading →

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