mcc on Nostr: By the way, if you saw someone saying that recently LA cut the budget for the fire ...

By the way, if you saw someone saying that recently LA cut the budget for the fire services while raising the budget for the police, and that person even included a cite: That's mistaken, in fact the fire department budget was simply passed *later* than the rest of the city budget that year, due to a union negotiation. The link you saw didn't reflect the final amount.

Screencap is the one factual paragraph in an incredibly crappy politico article. Fuck Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-karen-bass-extended-honeymoon-00197228