After his eight years as mayor of Los Angeles, Richard Riordan and his aides made a humorous video spoofing his job search. He shows up at the Lakers training gym going up against Rick Fox, at the LAPD asking then-Chief Bernard Parks for a detective job,

Many California cities are facing stress to their operating budgets because of rising public pension obligations and the protracted contraction of the economy. And some are so bad off they are staring down the unthinkable: bankruptcy as public pension ob

We’ve seen this movie before. The millionaire—or billionaire—corporate type who enters the electoral arena, touting his or her CEO skills and business savvy and crafts a populist, anti-government message. On the silver screen, Mr. (or Ms.) Smith goes to

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Austin Beutner took aim at "the barnyard called City Hall" on Tuesday in a speech intended to outline his economic vision for the city — and distance himself from the lawmakers now governing it. Beutner, a former investment

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, Calif. , Dec. 27, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 46th District State Assembly Candidate Brian Johnson added former four-term Los Angeles City Controller Rick Tuttle to his list of supporters today. Tuttle's endorsement reflects the broad su