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The city currently has a $222 million budget deficit. That number is only expected to rise in the next few years. Something will have to give.
Term limits have certainly not caused all that ails California, but they surely have done little to help.
Women now equal at least half of the population in most institutions of higher learning. We should ask why women have not come close to comprising half of the members of most elected government bodies.
In a seeming paradox, the Los Angeles region has been near the top in urbanization for a long time.
With so little good news, but so much of it feeling predictable, some members of the electorate may feel less than motivated to go to the polls.
In the 1920s, when the size of the city council increased from 9 to 15 members, L.A.'s population was 576,000, less than the size of two of today's 15 city council districts.
Outside MOCA Martin Lopez yells in Spanish at the top of his lungs, "Josefina Vazquez Mota, is the same thing, blood, violence, unemployment."
The Fair Political Practices Commission, the state's political watchdog, is now investigating incidents involving former Bell officials.