October 2009 Archives
Citizen Activists Win With Council
A proposed fee hike to $500 for citizens challenging development decisions before the City Council seems to have been derailed for now.
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Can Our Legislature Improve Itself?
CA's Committee on Improving State Government has its first meeting, as the legislature struggles to show an angry state populace that it can reform itself.
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L.A. Medical Marijuana Scene in Tumult
Things get more uncertain, with judges knocking down the existing moratorium, the city attorney threatening a crackdown, and the city council ready to act on restrictions.
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Angry About Supergraphics
City Attorney Trutanich threatens City Councilwoman Jan Perry with possible jail time over a big billboard on the Regal Cinemas in the downtown L.A. Live complex.
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Chief Bratton's Awkward Goodbye
Police Chief Bratton finally leaves L.A. for New York, amid recriminations over police hiring and the actual use of a trash fee hike that citizens believed was meant to hire new cops.
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L.A. Schools Fall Back on Federal Money
L.A. Unified School District expects to use federal stimulus money to make up for a $400 million shortfall in money they expected from the state.
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Villaraigosa Agrees to Police Hiring Freeze
Mayor Villaraigosa does a turnaround on his stance that L.A. needs more cops pronto and agrees to a cost-conscious hiring freeze.
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D.A. Declares War on Marijuana Dispensaries
L.A. D.A. Cooley decides the way almost all medical dispensaries do business is illegal.
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California Seen as a "Failed State"
California's fiscal, governing, and economics problems have the UK's Guardian newspaper declaring that we might end up American's first example of a "failed state."
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Nahai Out at DWP; Will Still Get Paid
The embattled David Nahai has resigned from his post as chief at the Department of Water and Power; he'll still draw the same exec salary as a consultant for the rest of the year.
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