Why do two separate City Hall items when they can merge into one? The City Council just voted 11-3 to approve the increases in Department of Water and Power rates. This could make general manager David Nahai's lunch talk tomorrow at Town Hall Los Angeles a bit more interesting and better attended. (I was going anyway.) The Council also solved the Chick-Cardenas impasse and moved gang programs under the mayor's office, as controller Laura Chick recommended. "The winners today are the people of Los Angeles," Chick crowed. "I applaud Councilmember Cardenas for his dedication to this issue."

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1:35 PM Sat | A front-page story in the L.A. Times on the opening of KPCC's new studios in Pasadena says that next up for the NPR station is "a major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radio stations and a major source of news and information in Southern California."
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