El Monte’s Mayor is discovering how hard it is to cut retirement benefits.
2017 is going to be a nail-biter for pension watchers.
A quarter of the city is living below the poverty line, but El Monte’s former city managers have more money than they know what to do with.
“With the money put into its pension funds over the last two years alone — nearly $2 billion — the city could have fixed every one of its broken sidewalks, built or leased housing for more than 25,000 homeless people or restored 11 miles of the concrete-clad Los Angeles River to a natural state."
It’s been four years since lawmakers passed Gov. Jerry Brown’s sweeping pension overhaul, yet we have little to show for what was supposed to be the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in California history.”
After 12 years, Long Beach City Manager Patrick H. West is hanging up his hat.
In January, the governor filed an unprecedented lawsuit against Huntington Beach over its hous
Santa Clara County and San Francisco filed a lawsuit last week against the Trump administration over a new policy that could stymie legal immigration by those receiving public assistance and discou
CaliforniaCityNews has a special message for you from Matt Winefield, an engineer and businessman who has been supporting the redevelopment of contaminated properties since 1989.