Thanks Pacoima, but get your own lights

During last year's secession campaign, local officials promised to look at why Los Angeles is the only major city that requires homeowners -- even in high-crime areas -- to pay $1,600 each for street lights. Well they looked, and today's Daily News reports that they conclude it would cost the city $532 million to put lights everywhere. In typical city hall fashion, that price tag is being used to justify not putting up lights at public expense anywhere -- not even in dark poor communities such as Pacoima, which loyally voted against secession thinking its complaints were being heard.