{"id":421336,"date":"2010-03-12T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/too-many-holes-city-budget-dike-40773\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T19:42:22","slug":"too-many-holes-in-the-city-budget-dike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421336","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Holes in the City Budget Dike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Los Angeles, Friday, March 12, 2010<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"wlmailhtml:%7b83DA4227-CE51-4ECA-A34F-D3B2440603E2%7dmid:\/\/00000014\/!x-usc:http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=316&amp;L=759&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Too Many Holes in the City Budget Dike<\/font><\/a> <font color=\"#FF0000\"><b>CITYWATCH<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<i>By Ken Draper<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are so many holes to fill in the City\u0092s budget dike and so few fingers and so little time to stop the hemorrhaging. <\/p>\n<p>The Mayor and Controller combo issued a citywide spending freeze [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=316&amp;L=761&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">LINK<\/font><\/a>] on Thursday. No furniture or equipment purchases or food and beverage purchases for employee events or office remodeling effective immediately. <\/p>\n<p>No travel expenses except to Sacramento or Washington DC. <\/p>\n<p>Prompts the question: What took so long? People are losing their jobs here. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=316&amp;L=759&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Read more&#8230;<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Friday, March 12, 2010 Too Many Holes in the City Budget Dike CITYWATCH By Ken Draper There are so many holes to fill in the City\u0092s budget dike and so few fingers and so little time to stop the hemorrhaging. The Mayor and Controller combo issued a citywide spending freeze [LINK] on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}