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Oct 2009

City officials and police union reach deal to avoid LAPD furloughs, but details are sketchy

Los Angeles negotiators have reached a tentative two-year contract agreement with the city police union that apparently will avert the need for officer furloughs and shave $50 million to $100 million from L.A.'s $405-million budget...

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Oct 2009

Governor signs bills to crack down on drunk drivers

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday signed into law two bills authored by Southland lawmakers that crack down on drunken drivers. Both laws involve the installation of ignition interlock devices on cars by DUI offenders. The ignition...

12

Oct 2009

Bill enables state to reduce inmate population

Prisons will be reduced by about 20,000 inmates over the next two years now that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill under pressure from federal courts to reduce prison overcrowding. The plan combines previous reform efforts...

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Oct 2009

City is serious about budget woes, really

For many of the neighborhood council leaders who gathered at City Hall this weekend, it must have seemed like deja vu all over again. Led by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and hammered at by other city officials, the message was: "This time,...