DWP customers not so green

Despite spending more than $4.8 million on marketing, the Department of Water and Power has lost most of the people who signed up for its Green Power Program. The Daily News says that at its peak, nearly 100,000 electricity customers joined the conservation program. But most never paid the $3 monthly fee; now just 27,000 customers participate.

Also in the DN: Antonio Villaraigosa is reminding the county Democratic Party that after it endorsed him in the mayor's race four years ago, Jim Hahn bashed his own party for backing a "liberal Democrat." Hahn also told Republicans he didn't want the Democrats' help anyway. This time, he does.

And: Both the Times and Daily Breeze do stories saying that nothing has changed at the City Council: public speakers were still largely ignored on Tuesday. Previously: Council busted...

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