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Back to homepageSan Berdoo declares bankruptcy
July 11, 2012 By John Seiler San Bernardino — San Berdoo to old-time Californios — just declared bankruptcy. The reason, reported the Sun: “In an earlier report to the council, [Acting City Manager] Travis-Miller said the city has faced declining
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Los Angeles teeters on the brink of bankruptcy
April 30, 2012 By Brian Calle Taxpayers in Los Angeles are facing a major crisis if Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other officials do not begin to address the systemic, structural issues putting the city on the fast track to economic upheaval.
Read MoreCalif. gas prices more than double in 8 years
April 28, 2012 By John Seiler The following chart I made from GasBuddy.com, which also lets you find the cheapest local gas prices. The chart shows gas prices in three areas for the past eight years. Note that Los Angeles
Read MoreSpecial Series: California counties are more at risk of going belly up
Editor’s Note: This is the fifth in a CalWatchDog.com Special Series of 12 in-depth articles on municipal bankruptcy. April 11, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi There are many California cities likely to be facing future stress to their operating fund budgets
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L.A. on a deathride to bankruptcy
April 9, 2012 By John Seiler City of Angels. City of Dreams. City with a “Holy wood.” City that’s Tinseltown. City driving off a bankruptcy cliff. Los Angeles and the state of California are racing in a Chicken Run like
Read MoreSan Diego, L.A. fight water war
April 5, 2012 By Wayne Lusvardi The water wars are back. During World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order forcing San Diego to join Los Angeles and other cities in Southern California in sharing the costs
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Protests Pour Gas on Budget Fires
John Seiler: Today firemen and teachers in Los Angeles staged protests against proposed budget cuts. The L.A. Times reports: Dozens of firefighters in matching white T-shirts packed City Hall on Friday to protest a budget proposal that would cut 18 fire
Read MoreJust dissolve Bell
John Seiler: There’s a political and legal fight now over who or what will control the city of Bell, whose government is mired in corruption and mismanagement. They should just dissolve it. Make Bell an example of what’s called “anarcho-capitalism.”
Read More$578 million L.A. school
John Seiler: As a punctuation point to my recent article, “L.A. spends $30K per student,” the LAUSD is opening it’s new $578 million school. It will have, incredibly, 4,200 students. This isn’t school, it’s an educational gulag. Imagine spending 13
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