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KCET Looks at LA Budget Crisis
Thursday night's SoCal Connected hosted by Val Zavala led with Judy Muller's report on LA's budget crisis. Jack Humphreville and Ron Kaye provided the community voices. Here's the video:
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LADOT GM: “City Financial Crisis Dire … City Council in Denial”
CITYWATCH
By Ken Draper
Rita Robinson told it like it is: “The City’s financial crisis is dire … worse than you’re being told … and the LA City Council is in denial.” {youtube}yEZQPsHTsGA{/youtube} The LA Department of Transportation’s general manager was addressing a group of neighborhood council leaders. She had come to tell them that the NC/DOT MOU process was being put on hold, “until I know what my department is going to look like and until I know I can do what I promise in the Memorandum of Understanding.” She laid out the reasons for the delay...
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Hostage City: Free LA from the Union Stranglehold
When I was a young journalist, I got involved in leading my union and fighting for empowerment of journalists in the newsroom, for equal pay for women and for the integrity of the news report. It was a time when corporations were taking over newspapers and eliminating competition which is the key to a free press. I led a strike against Rupert Murdoch when I lived in Australia and he started fabricating the news during the constitutional crisis that followed the ousting of the Labor Party government in 1975. I believe today that unions are vitally important to protect the rights of...
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Parks' Warning: LA Is Going Broke Fast, Faces Layoffs, Cash Flow Crisis, Bankruptcy Threat
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...
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 in West LA, Parks reported the city is spending
$1...
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Bye Bye Nahai -- A Symptom of DWP's Power Outage
For the second time in six months, DWP's demand for a blank check for billions of dollarsfrom ratepayers was rejected.Back in March, voters repudiated the phony Measure B solar plan that wasn't a plan. On Wednesday, the reprocessed Measure B...
For the second time in six months, DWP's demand for a blank check for billions of dollars
from ratepayers was rejected.
Back in March, voters repudiated the phony Measure B solar plan that wasn't a plan. On Wednesday, the reprocessed Measure B came back in the form of giving the DWP authority to impose virtually unlimited rate hikes in...
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Union Power: LACERS Board Moves Toward Approving Risky Early Retirement Deal
Rejecting a staff recommendation and warnings from the City Attorney's Office, a board committee of LACERS -- the city's civilian pension fund -- voted 2-1 Tuesday to allow unions to pay back the costs of the early retirement incentive program (ERIP) for 2,400 of its members over 15 years -- instead of five. The issue -- which threatens to blow up a deal the mayor and City Council offered the Coalition of City Unions -- now goes to the full LACERS board and ultimately the Council.
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Special Report on Planning. 6 Failings, 3 Fixes
Editor’s Note: Dick Platkin is a former L.A. city planner who writes often on planning issues Los Angeles residents who follow local land use issues have a...
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30,000 marijuana plants found at site linked to Santa Barbara County fire [updated]
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, speaking at a news conference today, said investigators believe the La Brea fire was started by Mexican drug traffickers because of the size of the marijuana garden and the equipment found at the campsite...
 Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown, speaking at a news conference today, said investigators believe the La Brea fire was started by Mexican drug traffickers because of the size of the marijuana garden and the equipment found at the campsite where the fire began.
Brown stood...
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