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city attorney
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Only 41 Pot Dispensaries Legal, City Insists
Post date:The L.A. city attorney's office says it has done all its research on how many existing pot dispensaries are still legal under the new June ordinance, which allows 70 to exist, and found only 41. And instead of waiting to be sued over this conclusion, t...
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pensions
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Radical Action Plan for Pension Crisis
Post date:The Daily News has found enormous citizen dissatisfaction over employee pay and pensions in city government, and offers some difficult but likely necessary solutions.
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Teachers Unions Miffed at L.A. Times
Post date:The L.A. Times is publishing a series that attempts to link specific teachers performance to elementary students test scores--and local teachers unions got so mad they called for a boycott of the paper.
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Renewable Energy
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Villaraigosa's Green Initiatives: Failing, Or Just Slow?
Post date:Mayor Villaraigosa promised when first elected to turn L.A. into "the greenest big city in America," but it isn't looking like he's succeeded, at least not yet.
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bell
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The State Tries to Crack Down on Exorbitant Local Official Salaries
Post date:In the wake of the city of Bell's salary scandal, California's State Assembly is considering a bill that would punish localities that give their local officials pay that the attorney general considers unreasonable.
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Commentary
Villaraigosa's Staff: Big, and Not Shrinking
Post date:Mayor Villaraigosa has an office staff more than 70 percent larger than his predecessor James Hahn.