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Eric Garcetti Wendy Greuel Early Election Results: Greuel Ahead for L.A. Mayor

Update at 11 p.m.: Eric Garcetti pulls ahead in the count. Details at bottom. Update: Wendy Greuel clings to tiniest of leads at 10:30 pm. Updated at bottom. Updated at bottom to explain that the city election web site's confusing "7.52 percent reporting" is wildly misleading. Far far more vote ... More >>

Garcetti and Greuel's Worst Days in Power

Setting aside promises, how have they behaved?

Wendy Greuel Adds Another Public Sector Union, Picking Up Firefighters Endorsement

Update below: Eric Garcetti wins UTLA endorsement. L.A.'s public-sector employee unions continue to line up behind Wendy Greuel in the race for mayor.Greuel already has the backing of the L.A. Police Protective League and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, which repr ... More >>

Joe Buscaino Beats Warren Furutani for Los Angeles City Council District 15: A Humiliating 2012 Thumping of the Party Establishment

By Hillel Aron It seemed as if half of San Pedro packed the Crowne Plaza Hotel ballroom late last night for a blowout victory party for local boy Joe Buscaino who won the Los Angeles City Council District 15 race. Things got wild as newcomer Buscaino beat dull lifer politician Warren Furutani. Furu ... More >>

Joe Buscaino, Dark Horse

200,000 reasons why a cop is L.A. City Council District 15's sleeper candidate

One in Five L.A. Department of Water and Power Workers Makes a Six Figure Salary

Mayor V. and the DWP.​More than one in five workers at the L.A. Department of Water and Power makes a six-figure salary, according to a peek inside the agency by the county's civil Grand Jury. More than 21 percent of the 9,177 workers make $100,000 and up, according to the Grand Jury, with th ... More >>

Bernard Parks Was Targeted as Union Object Lesson

$1.2 million buys a lot of fear at L.A. City Hall if that's your aim

Top 10 Reasons Organized Labor Hates Bernard Parks

Bernard Parks: In labor's crosshairs​More than 2000 people rallied outside L.A. City Hall last weekend to support public employees who are under fire in Wisconsin. Afterward, L.A. Councilman Bernard Parks issued a statement of support, in which he tried to dispel "the common misperception out ther ... More >>

Bernard Parks v. Forescee Hogan-Rowles

Incumbent's rival in Los Angeles Council District 8 was forced from an investing board for gift-seeking

L.A. City Council Bums

Entrenched and ridiculed, they line up for a March 8 "coronation"

L.A. Has a Jammed 2011 Ballot

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

L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz Buddy-Buddies With Union Chief Brian D'Arcy To Kill Proposed Reform That Would Deflate DWP Worker Pensions

Councilman Paul Koretz received $40,000 from the DWP union for his 2009 campaign​[Updated after the jump with council-floor perspective from Bernard Parks, the L.A. City Councilman behind the push to gain city control of DWP pensions. Originally posted at 3:33 p.m.] Some of the highest-paid u ... More >>

Several Thousand Union Members Rally in Downtown L.A. To Bring Jobs Back To California

Steve La​At least 1,000 people gathered at Los Angeles City Hall Friday to rally for job growth in California. Among the masses were members of several labor unions from L.A. and from across the country. "We're here because presence has power," said Steven Pasillas, 31 of the International B ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Whines About The Department Of Water And Power

​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa whined to the Los Angeles Times this week about leadership at the city's rebellious Department of Water and Power, which seems sometimes to be the money rich tail that wags the dog that is City Hall. "For four years, I've battled a bureaucracy that just won't resp ... 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

Council Votes To Give DWP Workers Raises

​As the city struggles with an impending $400 million deficit, hurdles for hiring more police, looming layoffs and intermittent fire-station closures, the City Council on Friday voted to give Department of Water and Power workers a raise, according to the City Clerk's office. The unanimous vo ... More >>

Los Angeles Council District 2 Race Attracts Millions In Contributions

Christine Essel​You might not know it but there's a momentous battle for a City Council seat going down this week, and it's attracting some big money and powerful interests. Former Hollywood studio executive Christine Essel is fighting state Assemblyman Paul Krekorian for the chance to represe ... More >>

Cirque Du DWP

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

Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfy

Activists leave the street-fighting to the little guys

Los Angeles Infrastructure or Bust

Metro gives second chance to a snafu-riddled Italian railcar builder

Measure B: Tweet Against the Machine

How L.A. City Hall power was struck down by blogs and online social networks

Villaraigosa and Solar Measure B Get Burned

March 3 was supposed to be a romp for the L.A. mayor, not a reprimand

The Greek Versus the Pixie: Can Upstart Nick Patsaouras Beat the Anointed Villaraigosa Insider Wendy Greuel?

Greuel's long-planned bid to become the new Laura Chick looked like a cakewalk. But that was before the economy tanked

Los Angeles' Bungled Solar Plan

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

L.A.'s Solar-Energy Ballot-Measure Melodrama

David S. Freeman: City Hall "is capable of screwing up a two-car funeral"

Obama insider, IBEW, SEIU, fire back at L.A. bloggers in solar war

By Daniel HeimpelWhat do you get when the top chieftains at City Hall, plus Barack Obama's wildly successful California campaign director, plus one of L.A.'s most politically-connected government unions all pit themselves against a few gadflies whose power is their ability to blog and dissent?Those ... More >>

L.A. City Council Makes Solar Look Bad

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

Politics Meets Street

Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising 740 Club?

Power of Dirty Money

Can the L.A. City Council really get serious about campaign ethics?

Rocky's Toughest Comeback

How L.A.’s city attorney became so grossly misunderstood

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

Audit Blues

The DWP wants more of your money

An A-Plus in Fund-Raising

Teacher unions-backed candidate rolling in the dough

All Charged Up

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

Light On the Roof

The reincarnation of Arnold’s solar initiative

Union of Scofflaws

L.A.’s big unions fail to open their books

Second Banana

Does Antonio have anything to fear from Robert Aquino’s white-collar union?

DWP’s Endless Storm

Therapists summoned to deal with angry workers on desert project

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

Power On High

DWP workers wired for big raises

DWP’s Power Surge

Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.’s giant utility

DWP’s Frayed Deal

Shorted-out union contract poses big problem for Antonio and his powerful pal

DWP’s Salary Shock

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

Where’s the DWP’s $12 million

Two secret training institutes remain unaccountable to the public

Letters

Letters

Power Crisis II

New problems could short out Dave Freeman and his DWP legacy