Topic: Los Angeles

IN BRIEF

The article offers news brief related to bonds in the U.S. in 2010 including the decline of the business conditions index from 31.86 to 19.11, the 22 increase of the confidence of builders in the market for new single-family homes and the ...

LA agencies got $111m stimulus, created few jobs

Despite lingering unemployment, audits released by the Los Angeles city controller found that two departments that received $111 million in federal stimulus dollars have only created 55 jobs so far. The reports released by City Controller Wendy Greuel looked at how the ...
LA suburb run by high-paid officials has higher property tax bills than Beverly HillsResidents of a blue-collar Los Angeles suburb where city leaders were among the highest paid in the nation are paying some of the highest property tax bills in the ...
Towards the end of last year the WSJ published the results of a study conducted by the Gallup Organization and Healthways, a disease management company, which ranked each of the 50 United States with regard to the resident's satisfaction. L.A. is currently ...

HBO plans TV movie on 2008 financial meltdown

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - HBO plans to make a television movie about the 2008 financial meltdown, based on the book "Andrew Sorkin's book chronicles the credit crisis by focusing on such figures as Richard Fuld, former chief executive of the now-bankrupt investment ...

Wells Fargo fires exec over Malibu house scandal

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & has fired a senior vice president after investigating reports she held lavish parties at a foreclosed beachfront Malibu house owned by the bank.The fourth-largest U.S. bank said in a statement on Monday that it ...
Dealers keep up hectic pace as customers race to buy cars before Cash for Clunkers ends MondayFrom Vermont to California, exhausted but appreciative car dealers watched their lots grow empty as crowds rushed to trade in gas guzzlers during the final weekend ...

A boost for DesertXpress

Reid uses corridor designation to show backing for private project Nowhere on the official documents from Thursdays announcement of a new high-speed rail corridor between Las Vegas and Los Angeles is the proposed DesertXpress featured as the preferred project.But make no mistake: ...
Large housing authorities worry about getting their share of stimulus money for capital needsMany of the nation's largest public housing authorities fear they will be left out when the government distributes hundreds of millions of dollars for new plumbing, roofing and other ...
Biden announces $100M program to remove lead paint, other hazards from low-income homesNearly $100 million in federal stimulus money will go toward a program to remove lead-based paint and other health and safety hazards from low-income homes, Vice President Joe Biden announced ...
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