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15
Dec 2008
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - For the first time in 25 years, the city of Los Angeles might lay off workers for budgetary reasons. Raising the fee to spay or neuter pets, adding fewer left-turn arrows on city streets and selling under-used fire...
15
Dec 2008
In another grim economic warning Friday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said an additional $30 million in cuts will be needed this month to balance the city's projected $7.2 billion budget this year.
In a lengthy memo to the City Council...
15
Dec 2008
Villaraigosa is negotiating voluntary retirement plan with L.A. employee unionsThe mayor says he has told the personnel department to come up with a plan for layoffs in case the city and the unions cannot reach a deal.
Hoping to avert...
15
Dec 2008
Two gang members have been arrested in the shooting death of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Abel Escalante, who was gunned down outside his parents' Cypress Park home in August as he prepared to go to work, law enforcement...