News & Press Releases
Associated Press
A Senate committee has defeated a bill backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would have cut California's long-term pension costs by reducing benefits for newly hired state employees.
LA Times
General Manager Austin Beutner hopes to sell L.A.'s share of a coal-fired generating station in Arizona and is weighing a sale and lease-back deal on the utility's landmark downtown building.
Associated Press
The story behind the legislation reads like a movie pitch.
LAist
When the L.A. City Council boycotted Arizona a month ago -- a move to protest the state's immigration law -- a provision in it banned official travel to there unless not going would do more harm than going.
LA Times blog
A Los Angeles City Council committee Monday raised concerns about a Police Department proposal to shutter several of its small, satellite jails in order to staff a new, central facility.
Sacramento Bee
California is bracing for a big increase in the cost of supporting its public employee pensions.
Washington Post
President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid "massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters" and to support the still-fragile economic recovery.
LA Times
Judges have been intervening in prison management to mandate reforms, taking control from state corrections officials. Overcrowding is at the center of the case.
CalPensions
Police in Vallejo are scheduled to receive a 7 percent pay raise next month, part of a labor contract negotiated after the city declared bankruptcy two years ago.
LA Times
If the team wins the NBA Championship, it will pay for a city parade, sparing the controversy that erupted last year over public funds being used for a celebration.
LA Times
The reduction in overtime expenses for fingerprint specialists has delayed the collection of evidence in crimes such as burglaries by as much as a week or more. Victims are frustrated by the time lag.
Pajamas Media
In criticizing Arizona's new immigration law, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck speaks on behalf of the man who appointed him, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
LA Times
L.A.'s new, showcase downtown community green, which turned brown and died within months, appears to be headed for a renewal.
LA Times
Andre Birotte Jr., an Obama appointee, says the unit's mission will be 'to bring to justice those public officials and public employees who violate the public's trust.'
LA Times
Kayla Woods, 6, was playing near her Lake View Terrace home when suspects fleeing police struck her, pinning her between their car and a wall. Three men are arrested, the driver charged with murder.
LA Times
Officer Tom Coleman died instantly when his motorcycle struck a big-rig. The vehicle he was pursuing left the scene and struck another car before the driver and three passengers were apprehended.
LA Times
Wendy Greuel launched a probe into the agency's accounts after officials refused the mayor's request for $73.5 million. 'The DWP's actions unnecessarily plunged the city into a fiscal crisis,' she said.
LA Times
What was once a lush acre of grass at the new LAPD headquarters withered away within months. Since then, insurers and the city have been arguing over who should fund the replanting.
Sacramento Bee
In an unexpected development, a state agency has rejected California's new methodology for putting condemned inmates to death by lethal injection, and has given corrections officials until Oct. 6 to resubmit their proposal.
LA Weekly
In a bizarre pronouncement, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that 3,500 workers will have been cut from city payrolls come July 1 as City Hall balanced a budget that at one time was recently $585 million in the red.
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