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Economic Stimulus

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Day In Shockers: UC Berkeley Makes You Liberal, Fox News Makes You Dumb

    College OTRWatchin' some C-Span from our Berkeley-ass van​Great. Now liberals at UC Berkeley have sta-thith-tics to drop into their rants on the intolerable ignorance of middle-Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and jerk off to Sarah Palin, like they aren't guilty of the same: A new study proves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    7,000 Los Angeles Jobs Will Vanish Unless Congress and Washington Step In Very Soon

    ​We can't emphasize this enough: The economy sucks, especially in L.A., where the number of folks without jobs overshadows the unemployment stats in most other cities aside from Detroit. Even though the recession is officially over (experts say it ended June, 2009), it sure feels worse than w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    City Of L.A. Has Hard Time Spending Free Stimulus Money -- 'Cause That's Hard Work Indeed

    Wendy Greuel.​An audit by City Controller Wendy Greuel finds that key L.A. departments have only created about 55 jobs out of $111 million in federal stimulus money, her office announced Thursday. The departments include transportation and public works, the latter of which created the most jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    L.A. Leads Nation When It Comes To Library Closures

    Ted Soqui​In Thursday's LA Weekly staff writer Patrick Range McDonald takes a look at the city's decision to shut down all its libraries twice a week in the face of a historic budget deficit. The closures make L.A. the only major American city besides Detroit to make such a move. And in a sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Mayor Villaraigosa Licks Chops Over President's $50 Billion Public Works Plan

    ​At least some people in Los Angeles were happy we laid out the red carpet for President Obama last month (despite the traffic his motorcade created). The prez over the weekend announced a $50 billion economic stimulus plan aimed mainly at transportation improvements. Few regions of the coun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    Villaraigosa Cites Girlfriend's Expertise on Pay Cuts

    ​At a press conference this morning to announce new stimulus spending, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa renewed his call for the City Council to act quickly to address next year's $485 million deficit.Villaraigosa, who has called for 1,000 layoffs, suggested that outcome could be avoided if unions agree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Schwarzenegger's Budget Is A Cry For Federal Help

    Arnold.​Facing a near $20 billion state deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding health-care and programs for needy children hostage in an effort to get the federal government to kick in nearly $7 billion. Of course, don't call it a bailout. Under Schwarzenegger's budget plan, which he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    L.A. Could Be Looking At 'Two-Year Jobless Recovery'

    Los Angeles, home to a near 14 percent unemployment rate, could be in the midst of "a two-year, jobless recovery," Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Larry Frank told Reuters. That's some hard medicine to swallow, but the city has received about $44 million in federal stimulus funds intended to train workers ... More >>

  • News

    November 13, 2009

    Hollywood's Catered Stimulus

    Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Flea to Obama: "Give Me Your Pennies!"

    ​CNN recently interviewed Flea about his wonderful nonprofit The Silverlake Conservatory. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist gives a moving testimonial to the saving power of music education for children and teens. "I was heading for a disaster, I was on drugs, I was robbing people's houses, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Laura Chick Finds Half A Mil In Bad Federal Spending

    Laura Chick, the former city controller who tried to account for tax dollars penny by penny, putting many council members on notice, is the new sheriff in town in Sacramento as a state inspector charged with keeping tabs on federal stimulus money headed to the Golden State.Laura Chick​ She's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    I'll Be Working on the Railroad: California's Bullet Train Gets on Track

    The on-again, off-again bullet train connecting San Diego to Sacramento and San Francisco is on again -- for now. Today the state of California formally applied for $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money to construct the line in several segments. (The two-pronged route roughly resembles the constell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    L.A.'s Homeleand Security Spending Spree

    In 2004 the L.A. Weekly examined the free-spending ways of the Department of Homeland Security, calling DHS largesse to academia and local law enforcement agencies "a 21st-century New Deal for the military-industrial complex." Now, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a report is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Angeles National Forest Wildfire Rages

    Google Maps/InciWebSite of Morris Fire​Many Los Angeles residents awoke this morning to blue skies whose horizons were muddied  by smoke from the Angeles National Forest wildfire 22 miles to the east. The air also bore a campfire scent. The latest wildfire broke out near Morris Dam in San Gab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Lemonade Initiative Rallies for L.A. Schools

    Embedded video from CNN Video Valley parents, fed up with the fractious fighting between the L.A. Unified School District and union leaders of the United Teachers Los Angeles, have recently formed a third-force movement called the Lemonade Initiative. ("When you're given lemonades," etc.) This morni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Union Teachers Roil School Headquarters

    UTLAScene in front of LAUSD HQThe announcement on this morning's United Teachers Los Angeles Web site had sounded low-keyed enough: Bowing to a court decision barring the teachers union from staging a one-day strike today, UTLA members would confine their activities to rallying before and after clas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Gun Suit Shot Down A Ninth Circuit Appeals panel has rejected a lawsuit, filed against gun manufacturer Glock, related to the 1999 Granada Hills shooting at a Jewish community center and the subsequent murder of a letter carrier. Two judges ruled that Glock cannot be held responsible for the illegal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2009

    Sunset Strip Strippers Return to the Body Shop

    Nick Ut/APIn one of the most heart-warming narratives yet to emerge from our economic recovery, Associated Press announces that the Body Shop will begin hiring about 500 strippers. AP quotes owner Salah Almudarris as saying his club will re-open tonight, nearly five months after an electrical fire t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Phil Spector Found Guilty Famed music producer Phil Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 death of sometime actress Lana Clarkson. He faces a prison sentence of 18 years to life. L.A. DailyUrban League The L.A. Dodgers' opening home game was marked by a parking-lot stabbing and v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    School Board Saves 2,000 Teachers' Jobs With Fed Money

    School Superintendent Ray Cortines and the school board today announced they were saving about 2,000 elementary school teachers' jobs, thanks to federal stimulus money. It sort of reminds one of the finale of Threepenny Opera, when Macheath's bail money arrives to save him from the gallows -- or, as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Laura Chick to Fill New State Inspector General Post

    L.A. Controller Laura Chick has been named by Governor Schwarzenegger to the newly minted office of Inspector General that will oversee the spending of the state's $50 billion of federal stimulus money. The job will make her a supercharged magnet for both media attention and political supplicants. C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    LAUSD Meets to Finalize Layoffs -- Unions Will Protest

    All the drama about Los Angeles Unified School District's cutting of nearly 8,600 jobs seemed to peak last week, when school superintendent Ray Cortines made his final recommendation for the cuts. Today, however, is the moment when LAUSD will actually vote to approve the layoffs, which inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Ah, Wilderness! The House of Representatives has passed a massive conservation bill that would declare as wilderness almost as much land as George W. Bush did during  eight years in office. Included are a new wilderness area centered on Magic Mountain and the cleanup of San Gabriel Valley groun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    County's Public Transportation Will Survive State Budget Cuts

    Now that the dust from California's epic budget battle is starting to settle, Curbed L.A. has done some quick analysis and found that despite the seeming loss of $136 million in operating funds, L.A.'s transit system will not be as hard hit as first thought. That's partly because of anticipated mone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Stimulus Database: A Lo$ Angeles Breakdown

    The L.A. Daily News, Stimulus Watch and US Mayors.org offer nifty search engines permitting readers to look through the 321 projects that the city of Los Angeles is submitting to Washington for its $7.3 billion cut of the $790 billion stimulus plan, which the House passed today. The database shows t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Suze Orman, I Love You

    Financial guru Suze Orman is who I watch when it's 1 AM in the morning and I'm feeling stressed and can't sleep because I'm too worried about the future. I listen to her money advice (Don't spend!), snuggle up with calculator and budget notebook in hand, and take comfort in her boxy suits, even tha ... More >>

  • News

    June 12, 2003

    The Right Times

    A secret White House memo just for John Carroll’s eyes

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Anyone Seen an Economic Policy?

    The GOP has a new team and the same old bad ideas. The Democrats are still pondering.

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    One-Trick Party

    In war and peace, Republicans replenish the rich

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Pretender

    Illegitimate and ill at ease, George W. Bush begins what looks to be a retro presidency

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    The Progressive Opportunity

    What if Davis and the Democrats actually win?

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