Woo hoo and congrats to the Lakers, bringing home the big trophy. What they've come home to [besides the cleanup from the deplorable ''celebration'' mini-riots on Sunday night] is a pretty vinegary debate about whether a city that's got a half-billion-dollar hole in its budget should pony up any dough toward a victory parade.

A parade could cost the city of LA anywhere from, oh, $100,000 up to maybe a million bucks, but the notion of the city putting up a penny at a time when jobs and services are being cut isn't going down well with some people -- among them the head of the LAPD union, and Councilman Bill Rosendahl, both of whom had their say today [and you can cast your virtual vote on this at the Patt Morrison blog at KPCC.org]. The city's casting about for some private business or organization -- maybe Lakers folks themselves -- to shoulder the entire cost.