As this article in the Los Angeles Daily News shows, the new retirement plan for Metropolitan Water District employees will affect significant parts of Los Angeles County in addition to Orange County and San Diego. This plan, which will raise record high pensions even higher, would have already gone into affect had several counties not begun to protest, delaying the vote until the 13th. There's still time to make your voice heard!  Read more >>

LOS ANGELES -- Some good news in the midst of the recession greeted Los Angeles water customers when, on March 25th, the Los Angeles Superior Court issued a tentative ruling in L.A. v. All Persons finding the City's practice of padding water bills to pay for unrelated City expenses to be unconstitutional.  Read more >>

A major collision between the interests of the public in knowing how well they are being served by elected officials, and those of politicians who believe their stature should give them immunity from scrutiny is now taking place in Los Angeles. The side of full disclosure is being represented by the city controller while the side of secrecy is being defended by the city attorney.  Read more >>

As Proposition 13 reached its 30th anniversary on June 6th, there were no protests over high property taxes in the Golden State. Proposition 13 still has it opponents and critics, but in recent polls voters still support Prop 13 by the same two-to-one margin it passed by three decades ago.  Read more >>

The League of California Cities and their developer allies have constructed an initiative that has nothing of substance on the inside, and to further confuse the voters, they are featuring its support by the League of California Homeowners, Inc. While this attractive name may cause many voters to think this is a broad-based statewide homeowners organization, it is actually a corporation whose primary function is to act as a contractor referral service.  Read more >>