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1Los Angeles Audit Suggests Spending Money on Shelters

Los Angeles Audit Suggests Spending Money on Shelters

Nov 19, 2019

An audit released in October by the Los Angeles City Controller’s office recommended that some homeless projects be reevaluated to see if their budgets can be decreased so that less of the city’s $1.2 billion homeless housing bond is used. Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin found that over 1,000 units of housing approved for […]

2Audit Finds That Los Angeles’s Top Homeless Outreach Agency Has Deep Operational Failures

Audit Finds That Los Angeles’s Top Homeless Outreach Agency Has Deep Operational Failures

Oct 15, 2019

According to an audit released in August, the homeless outreach agency tasked with moving people from the streets into housing, shelters or treatment for mental illness and substance abuse has severely failed to meet the goals of its contract with the city of Los Angeles. The audit states that the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority […]

3Los Angeles and San Francisco Pass Laws Restricting Restaurants from Offering Customers Disposable Utensils and Foodware

Los Angeles and San Francisco Pass Laws Restricting Restaurants from Offering Customers Disposable Utensils and Foodware

Sep 17, 2019

There are some interesting changes to be aware of when visiting Los Angeles and San Francisco. This year, both cities passed laws restricting restaurants from offering certain plastic items to customers. In March, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to restrict restaurants from handing out straws to customers, which went into effect for larger […]

4Analysis Reveals that Prescription Drugs cost 14% more in San Francisco Compared to National Average

Analysis Reveals that Prescription Drugs cost 14% more in San Francisco Compared to National Average

Jun 18, 2019

According to an analysis released last month, prescription drugs cost 14 percent more in San Francisco compared to the national average. The analysis was conducted by a Santa Monica company called GoodRx, which is a website that tracks prescription drug prices. New York is the most expensive state for prescription drugs at 16.9 percent above […]

52028 Los Angeles Olympics Estimated Cost Rises to $6.9 Billion

2028 Los Angeles Olympics Estimated Cost Rises to $6.9 Billion

Jun 7, 2019

In late April, an updated budget was released by the private committee responsible for staging the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and it estimated that the cost for the sport event has increased to $6.9 billion. The new estimate is $700 million more than previous estimates, which organizers are claiming is just an adjustment […]

6Los Angeles Experiments with Cooler Pavement to help with Rising Temperatures

Los Angeles Experiments with Cooler Pavement to help with Rising Temperatures

May 28, 2019

Los Angeles is experimenting with a light reflecting sludge that is poured over pavement to try and cool down the city. Scientists believe that temperatures in Los Angeles will increase nearly 4 degrees Fahrenheit by midcentury if greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing. Los Angeles is already almost 6 degrees hotter than surrounding rural areas due […]

7Los Angeles County set a Tourist Record last year

Los Angeles County set a Tourist Record last year

Mar 13, 2019

Los Angeles County marked its eighth year in row of tourism growth last year and hosted an estimated 50 million visitors. The county set a tourism record, which was a 3.1 percent improvement of 2017’s visitors (48.5 million). The growth came thanks to a slight increase in international tourists. According to tourism officials, the number […]

8Weather Channel App Accused of Tracking Data and Selling it to Third Parties

Weather Channel App Accused of Tracking Data and Selling it to Third Parties

Jan 18, 2019

Some shocking news if you are a user of the Weather Channel app, the app may have been secretly mining your data. Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed by the city of Los Angeles against the Weather Company, the business behind the app that is owned by IBM, which accuses it of manipulating users […]

9Millennials are Moving to these California Cities for Better Opportunities

Millennials are Moving to these California Cities for Better Opportunities

Dec 20, 2018

According to recent studies by finance website Magnify Money, six of the top 50 best cities in the United States for millennials are in California. These cities provide millennials plenty of job opportunities and higher pay. One of Magnify Money’s studies focused on America’s “top boomtowns,” and analyzed industry growth, population, housing and jobs. Another […]

10City of Los Angeles Releases Security Costs for Mayor Garcetti’s out of State Travel

City of Los Angeles Releases Security Costs for Mayor Garcetti’s out of State Travel

Dec 5, 2018

Last month, the city of Los Angeles revealed that Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail has cost nearly $450,000 since 2015 as Garcetti visited other parts of the United States and foreign countries. The figures were revealed due to a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times, which is seeking to determine […]

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