Showing posts with label Govt. Spending: "Let them eat cake". Show all posts
Showing posts with label Govt. Spending: "Let them eat cake". Show all posts
April 21, 2011

Here we go again?

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This is starting to become a problem. Now that city budgets are getting tight in the downturn the ugly truth is coming out: mismanagement or...
September 14, 2010

Getting out while the getting is good... Howard Chambers finally calls it quits

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You have to hand it to Howard for great timing. 34 years as city manager must be a state or national record. He has stress? Well no doubt th...
September 3, 2010

State Controller's revised Local Government Compensation Report (LGCR) due Oct. 2010

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On the heels of LAAG's PRA (public information request) to the city of Lakewood regarding salaries of all top Lakewood city employees in...
August 20, 2010

City of Lakewood responds to LAAG's public records request on city employee salaries

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We find it sad and disheartening that Lakewood did not step forward right after the City of Bell scandal broke like so many other cities did...
August 6, 2010

LA City Salary posting and Public Records Act request to Lakewood for same

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The City of LA in response to the Bell scandal has posted a 547 page pdf document that is supposed to represent all the salaries of curren...
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City of Bell..the salaries are only the tip of the Iceberg (and the taxpayers are on the Titanic)

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We read these two articles below and became even more outraged at the Bell scandal, which really is only just beginning from what we hear fr...

City manger compensation in LA County 2009

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Well this is a bit of an eye popping chart but again hats off to the LA Times for compiling this info so quickly in light of the Bell scand...
August 3, 2010

State Controller Takes Quick Action to Prevent Another City of Bell Debacle

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We applaud State Controller John Chiang's move as reported in the LA Times below (as well as the Controllers own press release below) as...
August 2, 2010

Property Tax Rate Comparisons in LA County Cities 2010

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This was a very interesting chart from the LA Times this week. (you can sort using column headers at the top) What was most interesting was...
July 29, 2010

The Real lessons from the City of Bell Debacle

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We Don't disagree with the points raised by the LA Times editorial of 7/23 below however there is a broader message: Never trust local p...
April 19, 2010

L.A. County budget shortfall at more that $500 million

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Read the headline below closely..."layoffs POSSIBLE". What private employer in the US would have a $500 million loss and not lay o...
October 30, 2009

Trick or Treat from the Lakewood Sheriff's Department

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The Press telegram reports that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's station in Lakewood is hosting a "Haunted Jail," complete wit...
July 18, 2009

Water costs to increase 109% in Lakewood

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Just as LAAG was getting ready to write an article on what a poor job cities like Lakewood are doing on water conservation and recycling (ot...
January 16, 2009

Pain at the Mall likely to last all of 2009

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As can be seen from the article blow these are going to be trying times for shopping malls. 2009 will be the true test of just how strong yo...
December 10, 2008

Sheriff Baca road trip to the Inauguration

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I really hope Sheriff Baca is kidding. Really the best thing we could have happen is Obama appointing a new Sheriff for LA County that actua...