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Union Battle Comes to Costa Mesa City Hall
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Union Battle Comes to Costa Mesa City Hall

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Costa Mesa has long been famous for the South Coast Plaza and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Now it's a battleground between public employee unions and council members who want to cut the workforce in half and outsource jobs to private contractors. Will other cities that face rising pension costs take notice? What are the possible consequences for public services? Also, the history of HIV/AIDS, since the disease was first reported 30 years ago here in Los Angeles. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, can the Republicans find a road to the White House?

Banner image: Costa Mesa is home to (L-R) the Orange County Center for the Performing Arts and South Coast Plaza. Photo of SCP: coolceasar

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Union Battle Comes to Costa Mesa City Hall ()

Forget the South Coast Plaza and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. Local Republicans think Costa Mesa might be starting a political movement that spreads statewide. Many California cities are struggling with the rising cost of public pensions. Now conservative council members want to cut the workforce in half and outsource many jobs to private contractors. Republican leaders have visions of a mini-Wisconsin.

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30 Years of AIDS in Los Angeles ()

The first cases of HIV/AIDs were reported 30 years ago this coming Sunday. That's the day some 2500 bicyclists and 600 volunteers will set off from San Francisco on a fundraising ride to Los Angeles, where those first reports of the disease occurred. Michael Weinstein is President of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Before founding what's now the nation's largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care in the nation, he was coordinator of the Stop the AIDS Quarantine Committee.

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

 

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