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EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.


A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past week

Fitting right in

David Wiggs has only been general manager of the DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
DWP Drinking Water Program
DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source)
DWP Department of Water & Power
DWP Drinking Water Protection
 for a little more than seven months, but he's already sounding like a City Hall old-timer.

City of studies

Name the glaring defect in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  city government, and someone, somewhere, is no doubt ``studying'' it - but nobody's ever actually doing anything about it.

Budget hocus-pocus

After wasting two months, the California state Legislature The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California. It is a bicameral body consisting of the lower house California State Assembly, with 80 members, and the upper house California State Senate, with 40 members.  finally got around to passing a budget that can best be described as a smoke, mirrors and a whole lot of empty promises.

Your taxes at work

Over the last 12 years, private-sector salaries have remained stagnant stagnant /stagĀ·nant/ (stagĀ“nant)
1. motionless; not flowing or moving.

2. inactive; not developing or progressing.
 in California, even though the average wage of government employees has soared. Spending more money on bureaucrats hasn't actually made public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services.  better, it's just driven up taxes.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Article Type:Editorial
Date:Sep 8, 2002
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