Gene Maddaus

In advance of tomorrow's State of the City address, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sent a letter to the council today listing 3,546 positions he intends to cut out of next year's budget.Most of those are vacant, but the list does include 750 filled positions that would be cut through layoffs or......

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......

This is how you go around the state Democratic Convention if you are a viable candidate: briskly, stopping only long enough to shake hands, and surrounded by bright young things who carry your placards and chant your name as though you are their personal Jesus.And here is how you go......

Daryl Gates, who died this morning, was never very guarded in his public comments, often to his detriment. But he was especially frank about his downfall in this (rather fawning) interview with Orange Coast Magazine in 1994:What happened, clearly, was that this was an opportunity for some very venal politicians......

Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates died this morning at his home in Newport Beach. He was 83.The New York Times describes him as "the unyielding chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, whose aggressive approach to policing in a period of intense urban turmoil was both admired for its innovation......

The suspect in last year's shooting at a North Hollywood synagogue was arrested today by the Beverly Hills P.D. SWAT team.The arrest of Christopher Littlejohn, 37, leaves several unanswered questions. He is accused of shooting two men in the leg on Oct. 29 at the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic Synagogue......

L.A. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana was back at work today for the first time since getting a DUI three weeks ago.For the city, his rehab stint was not unlike Manny Ramirez's 50-game suspension for using fertility drugs. You don't condone what he did -- you're just glad to see......

Back in December, Councilwoman Janice Hahn wrote an open letter to her opponent in the lieutenant governor's race, Sen. Dean Florez, urging him to "avoid a costly and divisive fight" by joining in a pledge not to seek the Democratic Party endorsement."As we have seen in the past," she wrote,......

The votes have been tallied in Arcadia, and it didn't end up so well for pro-density developer Henry Nunez. (Updated below.)Nunez wants to increase the zoning in downtown Arcadia, which would allow him to build a high-density project around a light-rail station. For the last 10 days he's been fasting......

We've been telling you for a few days about Henry Nunez, the Arcadia developer whose nakedly self-interested hunger strike has entered its ninth day.Today we chatted with Councilman Robert Harbicht, who says that Nunez's vision of an urban transit village in downtown Arcadia not what the city wants."He's gotten a......