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Feb 2010

Los Angeles budget cuts may end some city attorney programs

Raymond Chavez sat down at a legal clinic at the Midnight Mission on skid row Wednesday afternoon with two jaywalking tickets in his hand. Chavez, 56, who is homeless, said he didn't have the cash to pay the citations when they were issued...

24

Feb 2010

Schwarzenegger, Whitman back away from ballot measure to cut pension costs

Despite their full-throated support for cutting public employee pension costs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the leading GOP candidate to replace him, Meg Whitman, have backed away from supporting a ballot measure that would do just that...

24

Feb 2010

Revenue concerns prompt another L.A. bond-rating downgrade

The last of the nation's top financial credit agencies took action Tuesday to lower Los Angeles' bond rating, which will likely cost the city millions of dollars more when it borrows in the future. City Administrative Officer Miguel...

24

Feb 2010

California prison health care cuts -- a closer look

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative Democrats are backing an $811 million cut to prison medical costs in 2010-11, contained in a bill the Legislature sent the governor Monday. Democrats have included that cut as part of their $5...