Video: L.A. is ‘a City Without Heart” (LAist)

Welcome to the most dramatic theatre show in town, the L.A. City Council Hyperbole or not, Councilman Richard Alarcon was on a tear in today’s city council meeting going after city staff (and perhaps himself in a round-a-bout way) for, what he says, was the easy way out of the budget mess: by proposing to layoff 1,000 employees. Earlier in the meeting, he went after $100 million in taxes owed to …