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Government

Mar. 28, 2012

LA's budget tinkering eyed

As Los Angeles prepares for the forthcoming budget season, which starts next month, officials are weighing how best to tackle a structural budget deficit that perennially tasks the city with scrounging up enough money to pay its bills.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - This is, famously, a city of roads. But it's also a city of potholes.


As Los Angeles prepares for the forthcoming budget season, which starts next month, officials are weighing how best to tackle a structural budget deficit that perennially tasks the city with scrounging up enough money to pay its bills.


The city currently faces a roughly $220 million shortfall for next fiscal...

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