aggregated from: LAist

There's a reason people refer to Los Angeles County Supervisors as kings and queens. Until recent years, the position had no term limits and the powerful job, which reigns over millions of residents each, usually went unchallenged. Filing to run in...

topics: budget, campaign, los-angeles, politics

aggregated from: LAist

At a L.A. City Council committee meeting last Friday, city budget officials announced that Los Angeles has received around $591 million from 84 grants in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. That's out of 150 applications put forth so far, a...

topics: budget, city-council, committee, los-angeles

aggregated from: LAist

If you love a piano as much as Tony Bennet does, then you're in for a treat. Joanne Pierce Martin, pianist for the LA Phil, is performing a program for Piano Spheres this Tuesday at 8 PM at Zipper Hall. The program includes pieces by Ligeti and Anthe...

topics: budget, premiere

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will not be opposed in his bid to win election to a fourth term, a department spokesman said Friday.As of the 5 p.m. Friday filing deadline for the June 8 primary, no one other than Baca had completed the necessary...

topics: budget, castaic, east-los-angeles, election, los-angeles

aggregated from: The Daily Mirror

Uh-oh. Mash Notes and Comments Dear Paul, Ever ask yourself WHY so many women look worse after they return from the powder room than they did before they entered? Ask Ed Cabrera, the lighting specialist whom architects...

topics: budget, business, hollywood, parade, running

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

Los Angeles Times editorial writer Robert Greene has been awarded this year's Walker Stone Award for outstanding achievement in editorial writing by the Scripps Howard Foundation. The award announced Friday is one of several accolades presented...

topics: awards, budget, government, los-angeles, political

aggregated from: LAist

With the budget shortfall--estimates now have it up to $700 million for the rest of this fiscal year and next year--and massive city layoffs--up to 4,000 over the next year--city services will start dwindling. The one we'll feel (literally) the mos...

topics: budget, city-council

aggregated from: LAist

With the budget shortfall--estimates now have it up to $700 million for the rest of this fiscal year and next year--and massive city layoffs--up to 4,000 over the next year--city services will start dwindling. The one we'll feel (literally) the mos...

topics: budget, city-council

aggregated from: Money & Co.

Robust investor demand allowed California to increase the size of a bond offering to $2.5 billion from $2 billion in a deal that wrapped up Thursday.The tax-free general-obligation bonds, which will fund voter-approved infrastructure projects, attrac...

topics: budget, tax

aggregated from: LAist

Photo by hall.chris25 via LAist Featured Photos on Flikcr The $484-million shortfall the city of Los Angeles is experiencing has forced the hands of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Controller Wendy Greuel to issue a memo to department heads t...

topics: antonio-villaraigosa, budget, food, lapd, los-angeles