The Mayor’s budget came out Friday, and with it a series of proposed pension reforms for new hires. It’s a starting point for a conversation that needs to be had, but on one issue I’m ready to disagree: An increase in the retirement age to 67 is too high. Read more »
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In the last 26 days, since I published an analysis of Los Angeles Fire Department emergency response-time performance, and a candidate for Mayor cited a statistic that inadvertently led to the discovery of falsified and misleading LAFD data, the light’s been shined on a problem that appears to have been building for a decade or more. Read more »
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You can read their editorial here. I’d like to see the city study a borough system for Los Angeles, too, also in the interest of making government more responsive and bringing decision-making closer to the people.
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At the end of the day, it seems to be all about incumbents protecting their turf. That explains the current concocted campaign finance ‘crisis’ … driven by electeds who are content to browbeat and mislead commissioners in order to solve their problem. Read more »
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