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23
Mar 2010
Despite persistent concerns over its performance, the company that operates Los Angeles' red-light camera program won preliminary approval Monday for a three-month contract extension.
The City Council Public Safety Committee reluctantly...
23
Mar 2010
Welcome to the University of Police Academy 2010.
A City Council panel ordered the LAPD on Monday to study the creation of a program at the Police Academy that other agencies could use as a way to generate revenue.
The proposal by the...
23
Mar 2010
In an effort to corral mounting pension costs for employees, Ventura on Monday became the first city in Ventura County to call for a two-tiered pension system that would scale back benefits to future retirees.
Existing employees would...
23
Mar 2010
Since the "Summer of Love" more than 40 years ago, this liberal city and its legendary Haight-Ashbury neighborhood have been magnets for the young, the alienated, the down-and-out and the stoned - and for tourists eager to watch them....