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Salaries and fringe benefits now account for 75% of Los Angeles' $1.5 billion budget. Says City Councilman Ernani Bernardi, who makes only $43,923 a year: "It's a vicious cycle. It has to stop." According to him, the bloated wage scale results from a lack of fiscal restraint by the council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage...
...nomination away from Governor King, 54% to 46%. It was also the state's costliest campaign ever: Dukakis spent $2 million, King $3 million. Dukakis' Republican opponent in November, also nominated last week, will be John Winthrop Sears, 51, a well-to-do Boston city councilman and quintessential Yankee...
...People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch of garbage...
...officials who "mishandled" city funds, an astonishing 2,720 of Laredo's 5,400-odd blocks need paving at a cost of some $10,000 each. Another 2,000 blocks require resurfacing at $2,600 apiece. With little money available for such work, Mayor Aldo Tatangelo and City Councilman Felipe Sanchez decided to put the streets on the block...
...former city councilman and principal architect of Buffalo's new ordinance regulating video arcades, I read with interest your story "Games That Play People." You correctly note that communities with troublemaking youngsters had problems before the arcades opened. However, you overlook the fact that these hangouts often act as magnets, attracting young people who harass or frighten the clientele of surrounding businesses. Expert testimony before the Buffalo Common Council indicates a correlation between arcades and an increase in juvenile crime. Game centers can be well run. More frequently they become headaches for parents, neighborhood business people and community residents...