Ambulance deal goes through

Either L.A. County's Board of Supervisors stood up to the final lobbying swarm or all the deals for friends got written into the staff recommendations. But the Supes today OK'd lucrative, ten-year ambulance contracts without making last-minute political changes. The contracts determine which companies provide the emergency service for people who don't live in Los Angeles, Long Beach or more than twenty other cities that choose their own ambulances. Lobbying "was the most intense I had seen here," a veteran of the Hall of Administration told me.