I am directing the elimination of 1,000 filled, full-time position authorities and instructing the Personnel Dept. to immediately begin calculating layoff, displacement seniority and/or transfers of employees filling these positions.

When I delivered last year's State of the City address, I pledged to reinvent the way LA provides services to those in need by creating 21 Family Source centers throughout our city.

The time to act is now and we must move immediately to balance this year's budget. We can no longer "Just Say No" to public-private partnerships or privatizing our parking garages, convention center or zoo.

Around Los Angeles, families are being forced to make hard decisions about their personal budgets. At City Hall, the situation is no different.

The City of Los Angeles is using federal stimulus money to create new jobs and get our economy back on track.

In the face of continued budget shortfalls, our job now is to find ways to deliver City services cheaper, smarter, and more efficiently. And I'm worki...

On Friday morning I testified before US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and US Senator Barbara Boxer about our region's transportation needs.

I asked leaders in DC to help us with Measure R by accelerating our 12 transit projects so we can build them in ten years instead of 30. They are listening.