Layoffs come in a vicious cycle This is the point in the recession where one round of job cuts leads to another.
Employers announced a total of more than 40,000 job cuts Friday, almost all of them related to problems in other parts of the economy.
It's not that Charles Phoenix wasn't excited when he was asked to be grand marshal of Sunday's 32nd Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade.
The man best-known for his live comedy retro slide shows about American culture just happened to have bigger parade dreams: "I thought, `Wow! That's fantastic.
Barely two months since Los Angeles Unified School District officials duped the area's generous voters into signing away an additional $7 billion of their money for a vague school-improvement plan, the officials are at it again.