Economy

NBC/Universal should drop plans to build nearly 3,000 housing units on its backlot, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said this week in a strongly-worded letter to studio chief Ron Meyer. While Yaroslavsky has previously criticized the scale of the Evolution Plan, this is the first time he has pushed…
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Consumer Help
Sick of dropping sixty bucks on a few measly roses? This year, treat your valentine to tens of thousands of live flowers on a romantic stroll through one of the breathtaking public gardens of Los Angeles County. Love certainly won’t be the only thing blooming…
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L.A. County Outlook
As the economy flounders, a new Los Angeles County program will soon be sending a message to boaters: Please don’t abandon ship. Abandoned boats have become a vexing problem in the past several years as owners unable to sell or maintain their vessels give up…
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State & Federal News
There’s nothing like a cool $154.6 million to get Los Angeles all fired up. Especially when the money–the largest federal grant of its kind–will be used to help establish a new emergency-communications network linking all of the L.A. region’s police, fire and emergency workers. The…
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