{"id":527529,"date":"2010-04-14T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/unions-seeking-more-power-over-local-governments-42298\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:19:13","slug":"unions-seeking-more-power-over-local-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527529","title":{"rendered":"Unions seeking more power over local governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><b>Unions seeking more power over local governments<\/b><br \/>\nLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s threat to shut down city government two days a week because of a looming shortage of cash fizzled when city officials suddenly discovered an additional $30 million in property taxes. Nevertheless, Los Angeles&#8217; financial woes are emblematic of a widening crisis in California&#8217;s 5,000 units of local government as they deal with flattening or even declining property and sales tax revenues, reduced and\/or delayed payments from a deficit-wracked state budget, and burgeoning costs. And if their pinch continues, which seems highly likely, some probably will wind up in bankruptcy court. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lapd.com\/r\/56282\/127738\/0\" >Sacramento Bee<\/a><br \/>\nNewsLetter from the <b><i>LAPPL<\/i><\/b><br \/>\n<i><b>About the LAPPL<\/b> Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents the more than 9,900 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPPL serves to advance the interests of LAPD officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. The LAPPL can be found on the Web at <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/lapd.com\/r\/56291\/127738\/0\" ><i><font color=\"#000080\">www.LAPD.com <\/font><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><font color=\"#f0f0f0\"><font face=\"georgia\">Los Angeles Police Protective League<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><font face=\"georgia\"><font color=\"#f0f0f0\">1308 West Eighth Street<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><font face=\"georgia\"><font color=\"#f0f0f0\">Los Angeles, California 90017<\/font><\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><font face=\"georgia\"><font color=\"#f0f0f0\">phone: (213) 251-4554<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unions seeking more power over local governments Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa&#8217;s threat to shut down city government two days a week because of a looming shortage of cash fizzled when city officials suddenly discovered an additional $30 million in property taxes. Nevertheless, Los Angeles&#8217; financial woes are emblematic of a widening crisis in California&#8217;s [&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-527529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527529","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=527529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}