- Statement to the Los Angeles City Council
- Why in the World Would Anyone Want to Kill Civil Service?
- What Do Angelenos Get for Their Investment in City Employees?
- What L.A. Taxpayers Should Know About Liability Claims Paid by the City
- Do Public Servants in Los Angeles Really Serve the Public?
- Anyplace, USA / Los Angeles, California
- The Paterno Firing Should Put City Management on Notice
- In Los Angeles, the Selection of Civil Service Employees Is Stuck on Stupid
- Questions About the City’s New Fraud Policy
- A Citizen’s Complaint About Governmental Wrongdoing
- L.A. Is My Home; It’s My Duty to Keep an Eye on City Hall
- Angelenos Pay More Than They Should for the City Services They Get
- You Weren’t Paranoid, Sam: Your Phone Was Bugged
- A Citizen’s Suggestion to the City Council’s Budget Committee
- Angelenos Should Not Be Taxed to Help City Politicians Win Elections
- Is Employee Selection Stuck on Stupid, or What?
- Surprise: Councilman Cardenas and His 18 Aides Prevail
- How Collective Bargaining Works at City Hall
- An Open Letter to the Honorable Scott Walker, Governor of the State of Wisconsin
- Performance Standards for City Government
- In Los Angeles, Should Incumbent Council Members be Replaced?
- If You’re Running for a Council Seat, Being an Incumbent May Be a Big Advantage
- Challenges Facing the Voters of Los Angeles
- Two Ways to Fail
- Will the New Year Bring Civil Service Reform to Los Angeles?
- An Open Letter to Mayor Villaraigosa and Members of the Los Angeles City Council
- Does the Mayor Really Think City Government Works Better Without Transparency?
- Short-cutting the Selection of City Employees Dumbs Down the Civil Service System
- What the Mayor Could Do To Help Los Angeles Recover From Its Current Crisis
- Is Mayor Villaraigosa Really Trying to Wreck the City’s Civil Service System?
- Secrecy Lets Officials Corrupt the City’s Civil Service System
- An Endorsement: Steve Cooley for California State Attorney General
- What the People of Los Angeles Should Know About Their Police Department
- An Appeal to the Readers of This Column
- Does An Army of Exempt Aides Politicize or Corrupt the City’s Civil Service System?
- The Rise and Fall of A Mayor Who Refused to Play By The Rules
- The Politicians at City Hall Are at Least as Self-serving as the Politicians in Bell
- Mismanaging Employees Jacks up the Cost of City Government
- It’s Great to be an American
- Measuring the Job Performance of Civil Service Employees
- Would an Honest Mayor
- Statement to the L.A. City Board of Civil Service Commissioners
- Her Name is Margaret M. Whelan, and She’s Wasting Your Money
- Could the City’s Budget Gap Be Closed Without Cutting City Services?
- It’s Time, Angelenos, To Make Your Voices Heard; City Service Is In Danger!
- 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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