La Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

Understanding The Mayor's Budget

2011-04-04-tcmhuffpo.jpg | Posted 04.22.2012

Story comes courtesy of The City Maven. By Alice M. Walton. The $7.2 billion budget released today by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa calls for layi...

Jason Cherkis

Occupy L.A. May Branch Out To Occupy Beverly Hills, Skid Row

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.28.2011

WASHINGTON -- After a tense all-nighter with the Los Angeles Police Department, Occupy L.A. activists and their tents outside City Hall have been give...

Steve Mnuchin, Meet Rose Gudiel

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.03.2011

Peter Dreier

Gudiel would like Mnuchin to visit her at her home, because his OneWest Bank is trying to evict her and her family. If Mnuchin won't come to visit Gudiel, she will visit him, and bring some of her neighbors and friends with her.

LA Pulls Plug on Costly Coal: Like Taking 11 Million Cars Off Road

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

Villaraigosa's clean energy initiative recognizes the massive and largely overlooked costs of dirty coal on his local constituents -- and the nation -- and the need to move to a coal-free future.