City of Angles

The city is struggling with unprecedented budget problems, but saving money through getting rid of workers is more complicated than it looks.

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To stave off the threat of civic bankruptcy, L.A. needs to cut nearly 4,000 city jobs over the course of 2010.

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The L.A. City Council this week finally approved a new, highly restrictive ordinance on medical pot dispensaries, as police raids continue. Also this week, pro-legalization activists submitted signatures for a full adult tax-and-legalize ballot measure for marijuana.

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With the city budget crisis growing, the Neighborhood Council's are offering a comprehensive set of suggestions for cost-cutting.

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Our governor's budget plans and priorities for his last year in office have unions up in arms.

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New revelations of surprise money shortfalls hit L.A., but among the plans for outsourcing and cutting, Mayor Villaraigosa remains committed to hiring more police.

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The Supreme Court rejected a legal gambit on the part of the governor to overthrow the authority of a judicial panel that was ordering prisoner releases on the grounds that overcrowded prisons resulted in such poor health care that it violated prisoner rights. But Gov. Schwarzenegger will have another chance to halt the releases themselves. Despite the legal victory though, prisoner releases are happening by the thousands anyway in California.

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The City Council finally voted on its very long-debated new ordinance regulating medical marijuana dispensaries--though it failed to earn enough votes to officially pass today, it will almost certainly pass on a second vote next week, requiring a smaller majority. But elements of the bill still have elements of the medical pot community riled.

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Millions of our cash-strapped city dollars are going to unused phone lines, says a new audit from City Controller Wendy Greuel.

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