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Los Angeles is fatally stalled in a half-finished revolution.
If it's good enough for City Halls... The TTLA blogger wagers with the Boston Globe's great staff writer and Exhibitionist blogger Geoff Edgers.
Mayor Villaraigosa is aiming to close the budget gap through a combination of creative revenue strategies and budget cuts in the vicinity of $300 million.
Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa now believes as few as 750 city employees will need to be let go in the coming year. Could this be the end of the doom and gloom?
A surprise $30 million in property taxes means L.A. won't have to become a partially two-day-a-week city government.
A dramatic battle between the City Council, the mayor and DWP is resolved - for the next three months, that is.
San Jose and Pasadena offer lessons for L.A.'s budget mess, an analyst argues in the L.A. Weekly.
Laws passed by city council often have little to do with the neighborhood they represent and many opinions differ over issues of privacy, parking, and homelessness.President of the Venice neighborhood council, Mike Newhouse mediates these meetings.
A noticeably frustrated Villaraigosa recently berated the political system for limiting his ability to raise revenues. Are the Mayor's hands really tied on the deficit issue?
Local media is slamming the seven city council members that decided against cutting their own salaries. The combined cuts would have saved up to 4,000 city jobs.
Mayor Villaraigosa has asked city agencies to stop purchasing unnecessary items. Examples include furniture, food, and travel.
The budget ax is falling fast, but could these tough decisions eventually repair the Mayor's broken reputation? Or is he already too late?