Fun Fact: Los Angeles by design has a very weak mayor, unlike cities like, say, New York. Most power (no pun intended) officially is in the hands of the city council, but many observers feel that it's actually the city-owned LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power) that really runs the city! In my many interactions with their technical teams over the years, I've always been impressed. Yesterday I had the opportunity to watch an electrical job being done where a trainee doing the actual work was being observed and guided by three other employees and it didn't fail to impress. And four pairs of eyes on the work -- excellent!