Thursday, January 11, 2018
L.A. trash customers say pickup deal stinks - LA Times
Steve Lopez recently wrote about it in the L.A. Times:
"City Hall watchdog Jack Humphreville said that with the new monopolies in place and price gouging rampant, customers will end up paying tens of millions of dollars more than they had been. And he wondered if the $35 million in franchise fees, paid by the haulers to the city, would be used in part to cover budget deficits Humphreville attributes to weak leadership."