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Garcetti and Greuel's Worst Days in Power

Setting aside promises, how have they behaved?

Wendy Greuel's Inside Game

The controller's union ties could be her biggest advantage in the race for L.A. mayor — or her biggest liability

On The Heels of Water Rate Increase For L.A., Report Says Average Water And Power Worker Makes Nearly $100,000 a Year

Craig Bennett​You think times are hard? Try being an average-salaried Department of Water and Power worker, who takes home $96,805 a year of public money, according to a recent analysis by Bloomberg. Can you even, like sustain a Whole Foods-stocked pantry on that kind of money? Really, that's ... More >>

Getting Solar for $69 a Month

Mar Vista duo forms collectives of homeowners to lease panels cheap

Destruction of Fish Sucked Into L.A. Power Plant Cooling Systems to Continue Under California Ruling

Tim PearceTake us to your power plant.​Imagine a world in which seawater and sea life are sucked into a coastal power plant in order to cool its generators. In the process 30 billion larval and adult fish are destroyed. Well, you don't have to imagine. That's life at the city of L.A.'s three ... More >>

Oscar Night Marred by Big Sinkhole on Highland Avenue in Hollywood

oceanUPJustin Bieber and Selena Gomez at the Vanity Fair party Sunday.​Update: The water-main break was fixed and traffic was reopened in time for the morning rush -- about 6 a.m. -- the DWP reports. The eyes of the world are on L.A. Sunday night and we give them ... ... a giant sinkhole. Y ... More >>

Only 24 Hours Left To Apply As Official Blurb Artist For L.A. City Council's Voter Information Pamphlet

The Columbus DispatchYour chance to guide voters​Are you one of those rare municipal geeks who always seems to know what the F is going on at City Hall? Have you always dreamed of seeing your street savvy in mass print? Are you woefully unemployed and have nothing better to do for the next 24 ... More >>

L.A. Has a Jammed 2011 Ballot

Residents will be asked to rein in DWP, save libraries from Villaraigosa's pen

Rushed and Confused L.A. City Council

Library, weed, DWP measures aimed for ballot all get short shrift

Hush-hush at the Los Angeles DWP

Promising "transparency," chief Austin Beutner paints the tarnished utility even darker

DWP: Reservoir Dogs

Can Austin Beutner negotiate a DWP swamp protected by top belligerent Raman Raj?

Breaking: Permanent Electricity Hike For L.A. Residents Slides By (Updated)

Councilwoman Jan Perry.​Despite attempts by Councilwoman Jan Perry on Tuesday to get the rest of the City Council to join her and amend a planned electricity rate hike to make it last only three months starting July 1, a permanent increase slid past today's deadline and into the record books. ... More >>

Beutner's Top Job Is To Find Someone to Replace Beutner

​Austin Beutner, who as deputy mayor already oversees 13 agencies at City Hall, now has one more in his portfolio: the DWP.Beutner, who just came on board three months ago, was introduced today as the Department of Water and Power's interim general manager, the second straight interim GM and the n ... More >>

City Hall's 2010 DWP Debacle

How Beutner, Carr, Carson, D'Arcy, Freeman, Greuel, Raj, Santana, Szabo, Villaraigosa & Co. pushed L.A. to the cliff edge

Villaraigosa Can't Impose Three-Day Work Week; City Credit Gets Another Wall Street Downgrade

​It turns out Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was more bark than bite Tuesday when he announced that he would pursue putting most city services on a three-days-a-week schedule to take a bite out of Los Angeles' deficit. The city's chief legislative analyst, Gerry Miller, said Wednesday that the ma ... More >>

City Gets Slapped By Credit Rating Agency Over Budget Mess

​Fitch Ratings withdrew its AA- grade for $720 million worth of bonds issued by the Department of Water and Power after the City Council last week rejected any increases in electricity rates for DWP customers. The result is that the department will have to pay more to borrow money to maintain ... More >>

City Increased Workforce, Handed Out Raises In Face Of Budge Crisis

​The Los Angeles Times over the weekend looked at how the city of Los Angeles continued to add employees, dole out raises, and pad pensions even as today's budget crisis -- L.A. is headed for a nearly $700 million deficit in summer -- loomed. (And last week, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa tried un ... More >>

Councilman Calls B.S. On Mayor Villaraigosa's Utility Hikes

Councilman Greig Smith.​In a rare rebuke of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa by a Los Angeles City Council member, Valley representative Greig Smith characterized the mayor's recent plan to raise Department of Water and Power rates by as much as 28.4 percent as a disingenuous rush job. In an open l ... More >>

Smaller DWP Increase To Be Proposed By L.A. Councilman Garcetti

​As the city is poised to vote Tuesday on whether or not to hike Department of Water and Power rates by 0.8 cents a kilowatt hour starting April 1, Councilman Eric Garcetti says he's going to introduce a competing proposal for an even smaller rate increase. Garcetti's plan might echo the 0.5 ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Complains About Not Being Able To Tax Residents More

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa decried the hurdles involved in raising city taxes during a discussion about the sources of the city's huge deficit, which will grow to nearly $700 million in July. In an interview with National Public Radio published over the weekend, the two-thirds vo ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Proposes $2.50 Per Month Water-And-Power Rate Hike

​As expected, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday proposed a $2.50 per month rate hike for customers of the city's Department of Water and Power as part of a "carbon surcharge" that would have the DWP buy solar power and retrofit L.A. businesses and homes with energy efficient ele ... More >>

Amid Budget Crisis, Some L.A. City Employees Get Raises

​No, we're not talking about the two- to four-percent raises given to some Department of Water and Power workers late last year as the City Council knew the budget crisis was looming. Rather, a handful of employees who transferred to the DWP in order to save their jobs and shave money off the ... More >>

Cirque Du DWP

Nahai gets $82K via immaculate conception as Freeman tries not to step in it

L.A. mystery: Fountain of Youth natural spring in Griffith Park?

By Donna BarstowDid Fern Dell residents living along the southern edge of Griffith Park find a Fountain of Youth? The neighborhood's mysterious water problem could turn out to be a relatively rare natural spring that no amount of Los Angeles development and urbanity can kill.The mystery surfaced in ... More >>

Dog Trainer Dodges Eviction from DWP Land -- For Now

Last Friday's Daily Breeze brings us up to date on an overlooked but compelling story of animals, public use of city property and -- of course -- eviction. For a good background read, see a March Coast Gopher report. Nearly a quarter-century ago Peter Burmeister and a band of volunteers received per ... More >>

Los Angeles' Bungled Solar Plan

How D'Arcy and Villaraigosa turned clean energy into a dirty dispute

L.A. City Council Makes Solar Look Bad

Shenaningans taint a clean-energy plan, and the council lays it all on voters

Shock Therapy

DWP’s powerful union sues over control issues

Uprising in the Water Colonies

DWP board goes in search of peace in Owens Valley

All Charged Up

What it will take to save L.A.’s troubled utility?

The Hidden Empire

What DWP’s massive raise says about L.A.’s leadership

DWP Dirt

Longtime worker swept away after raising questions about multimillion-dollar cleaning contract

DWP’s Salary Shock

Sweet contract proposal once again raises questions about who’s running L.A.’s public utility

Seeking Council

Will neighborhood power grow or go in the new regime?

Where’s the DWP’s $12 million

Two secret training institutes remain unaccountable to the public

The Lid Comes Off

Secret memo to Mayor Hahn lays blame for DWP’s woes on union control

Tapping Pension Funds

DWP may end up giving less to workers’ retirement plan

The Rise of Empire

The DWP has hired private eyes to follow janitors who complain about shoddy cleaning supplies — and a $25 million monopoly contract

Dirty Laundry

DWP’s deep cultural problems get a public airing, but who will fix them?

Not in My Neighborhood Council

What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

Out of the Darkness

Some city leaders call for DWP to shed light on secret settlements. . . some don’t

Letters

The Black Avenger

Milton Crawford exposes the DWP’s big whitewash... racism, intimidation and harassment

Deluged

The larger lessons of the DWP’s bad day at City Hall

Not Such a Hot Deal

L.A.’s school district pays $19.3 million for zero air conditioners

A Case of Water Carrying

The DWP’s unlikely choice to work with Sacramento

Universal Lifeline

The power of Hollywood keeps lights on

Power Ranger

DWP chief plans to hitch horses, 'pull this wagon out'

Power to the People

Why David Freeman is smarter than Dick Riordan

Daily Drips

Or, the power of a few ill-chosen words