{"id":692788,"date":"2010-03-16T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/budget-red-flags-tell-us-something-s-fishy-40942\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:42:14","slug":"budget-red-flags-tell-us-something%c2%92s-fishy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692788","title":{"rendered":"Budget Red Flags Tell Us Something\u0092s Fishy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=317&amp;L=768&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Budget Red Flags Tell Us Something\u0092s Fishy<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\"><b>LA CONFIDENTIAL<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<i>By Jack Humphreville<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Red flags are flying as the City\u0092s short term borrowings have increased from $150 million to $650 million over a four-year period according to the Controller\u0092s March 1 Report.  And needless to say, this amount is going to increase next year as the City attempts to close a budget deficit of close to $500 million.<\/p>\n<p>The question: Is the City\u0092s budget really balanced as required by the City Charter? And are the Tax and Revenue and Anticipation Notes (the \u0093Notes\u0094) a worthwhile investment? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lm-eblast.com\/email-manager\/link.php?M=145113&amp;N=317&amp;L=768&amp;F=H\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Read more&#8230;<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Budget Red Flags Tell Us Something\u0092s Fishy LA CONFIDENTIAL By Jack Humphreville Red flags are flying as the City\u0092s short term borrowings have increased from $150 million to $650 million over a four-year period according to the Controller\u0092s March 1 Report. And needless to say, this amount is going to increase next year as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ue0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}