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Los Angeles World Airports General Manager Gina Marie Lindsey — $326,855 Police Chief Charlie Beck — $307,290 Harbor General Manager Geraldine Knatz — $300,964 City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana — $256,803 Mayor Antonio Villariagosa — $232,425 Recreation and Parks General Manager Jon K. Mukri — $229,074 City Atty. Carmen Trutanich — $214,546 Planning Director Gail S. Goldberg (retired) — $212,829 L.A. Zoo General Manager John Lewis — $210,908 City Librarian Martin Gomez — $210,000 Controller Wendy Greuel — $196,667 City Treasurer Joya De Foor — $181,530 The 15 City Council members — $178,789 Source: Database posted by City Controller Wendy Greuel.

In two surprise moves at the Maywood City Council meeting Monday, City Atty. Edward Lee resigned while embattled Interim City Manager Angela Spaccia appeared poised to keep her job — at least for the time being. Spaccia, who has been on loan to Maywood from the city of Bell since February, sent an e-mail to the City Council on Friday in which she stated her intention to end her relationship with Maywood in light of negative media attention over the high salaries paid to Bell officials — including herself.

In a city that has seen itself has a leader of new globalism, an urban headquarters for the 24/7 economy, there seem fewer reasons than ever to stop drinking just because it's 2 a.m. That's the way Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn sees it, anyway. A new "nightlife initiative" he's promoting would look at keeping some of the city's bars open later, or even all night — recognition, he says, that a modern city's economy no longer has to stop functioning when the bankers go home at 5. City Atty.

Last week, the California Senate passed a bill sponsored by Sen. Gil Cedillo (D- Los Angeles) that would vastly inflate the authority of the Los Angeles city attorney. If the Assembly passes the bill and it is signed into law by the governor, the city attorney will be empowered to ask a state judge to empanel a grand jury and issue subpoenas to investigate potential criminal activity, a power now held in California only by the state attorney general and county district attorneys. The proposed law, introduced at the urging of Los Angeles City Atty.

Young man goes East Re "Thousands protest state cuts to public schooling," March 5 Last year I was a senior at Palisades High School and in the top 5% of my class. I was accepted to all four UC schools to which I applied. I was also accepted to the University of Chicago. One of the many reasons that I chose to go to Chicago was that for a middle-class student like me, it was less expensive -- based on the financial aid packages I was offered -- to attend a private school out of state than to go to one of California's top public universities.

Workers have removed five supergraphics from a pair of buildings on Hollywood Boulevard that are at the center of the latest criminal sign case filed by City Atty. Carmen Trutanich. A judge issued arrest warrants Tuesday for four people accused by Trutanich of putting up five illegal signs at 6800 Hollywood Blvd. and 6810-6820 Hollywood Blvd. The city's sign law bans the installation of new supergraphics, or vinyl images draped across the side of a building. Deputy City Atty.

The nation's main advocacy group for medical marijuana threatened Tuesday to challenge Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich's legal assault on dispensaries, saying it is "unlawful, unconstitutional, and contravenes the spirit and letter of the governing laws." The city prosecutor's office filed three lawsuits last week seeking court injunctions to force Organica in the Venice area and two Holistic Caregivers stores in South Los Angeles to stop all sales. Trutanich maintains that state law authorizes collectives only to grow marijuana and recover their actual costs, not to sell it. Americans for Safe Access, which advocates for the use of medical marijuana and has defended dispensaries in court, has tried repeatedly to persuade the city prosecutor that he is misreading the law and recent court decisions, but he has not budged.

A day after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ordered the elimination of 1,000 jobs to address the city's budget crisis, Chief Deputy City Atty. Bill Carter wrote a memo stating the mayor does not have authority under the City Charter "on his own to order layoffs." In the Friday memo, Carter advised employees in the office of City Atty. Carmen Trutanich that Villaraigosa lacks the power to compel city department heads to lay off employees, an opinion that puts the city's top lawyer at odds with the mayor.

There are about 120 Starbucks coffee outlets within the Los Angeles city limits. According to the most reliable estimates, there are somewhere between 900 and 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries. Mull over the implications of that comparison and you're on the way to understanding why the City Council seems enmeshed in an endless wrangle over how to regulate the number and sites of the nonprofit cooperatives allowed by local ordinance to distribute cannabis to individuals with doctors' prescriptions.