- It’s Time, Angelenos to Make Your Voices Heard at City Hall!
- Is Anyone at City Hall Serving the People of Los Angeles?
- Probation: It’s the Working Test, Stupid!
- Improving Human Resource Management in City Service
- The Mess in Civil Service: It Smells a Lot Like Collusion
- In Los Angeles, Council Committees Must Be Held Accountable
- Holes in the City Charter Rip Holes in Our Leaders’ Credibility
- When Duty Calls, The Los Angeles City Council Doesn’t Listen
- In Defense of the New City Attorney in Los Angeles
- What If the Los Angeles Zoo Were Run by Personnel Experts?
- City Management and the “Don’t Snitch” Syndrome
- Mushrooms Thrive in the Dark; Voters Need Transparency
- Restoring the Board of Civil Service Commissioners
- Did Mayor Riordan Really Think the End Justifies the Means?
- A New Version of a Very Old Mother Goose Rhyme
- The Next Mayor of Los Angeles Will Have a Very Big Job
- What City Management in Los Angeles Could Learn from Jack Welsh
- Civil Service and the Misguided De-Regulators at City Hall
- At City Hall, “PELT” Means Public Employees For Lower Taxes and in Los Angeles, The Pelters Are Out to Make a Comeback!
- The Election of Trutanich is Good News for Angelenos
- Fifty Thousand Employees: An Under-utilized Resource in City Government
- “But Not My Son”
- Why Carmen Trutanich Should Be the Next City Attorney in Los Angeles
- Is the Mayor Doing All He Can to Raise Workforce Productivity in City Service?
- The March 3, 2009 Primary Campaign for Los Angeles City Attorney
- An Open Letter to the Mayor on the Need to Restore Civil Service in L.A.
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