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03
Apr 2010
Threats this week by Los Angeles' powerful municipal utility to withhold $73 million from the treasury helped reveal a city that has become increasingly dependent on indirect and onetime sources of revenue to pay its bills.
Combined with...
02
Apr 2010
As parts of the San Fernando Valley experience a surge in gang-related killings and car burglaries, an additional 49 police officers were redeployed to the Valley Bureau this week under a citywide shift aimed at maintaining emergency...
02
Apr 2010
A bruising political fight among Los Angeles' top elected leaders over a proposed hike in electricity rates threatened Thursday to deepen the city's financial crisis while suggesting that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had sharply misread the...
02
Apr 2010
The Los Angeles chief of police took the podium at the Galen Center, continuing a conversation he started with the University Park and Exposition Park neighborhoods more than 30 years ago as an officer working his beat.
But Charlie Beck...