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Unable to raise taxes, the city is instead increasing parking-related fines, placing a disproportionate share of the burden on the poor.
Folding the Neighborhood Councils into another city agency will likely quiet the clamor being made by local activist groups.
Grim budget fact of the day: the city tacks an additional $350,000 onto it everyday.
Should the money from gov't property sales go to citywide funding? The City Controller certainly thinks so. But others are arguing that the individual districts deserve a say in the matter as well.
The city is struggling with unprecedented budget problems, but saving money through getting rid of workers is still proving complicated.
To stave off the threat of civic bankruptcy, L.A. needs to cut nearly 4,000 city jobs over the course of 2010.
With the city in crisis, neighborhood councils are offering up comprehensive cost-cutting suggestions
Event promoter AEG says the city made $4 million from the Michael Jackson memorial. But no one's really sure.
Who leads in pot clinics: LA or SF? Are the clinics undercutting the Mexican cartels? What's the world saying about our abundance of cannabis parlors?
The LA District Attorney says, in his legal opinion, virtually every medical marijuana clinic in the county is breaking the law.
As a budget cutting measure, L.A.'s City Council reaches a tentative commitment to get rid of nearly a thousand city workers.
I have always wondered how place matters in the shaping of a mind. Is our grand City Hall getting to the Mayor's head?