Betting on Beutner

The man brought on to revive the Los Angeles business climate is laying out an ambitious agenda to change how City Hall deals with the private sector, ranging from key personnel decisions to overhauling a bureaucratic culture. Daily News.

If he succeeds, Austin Beutner will help rehabilitate the city's image and its reality, along with the public approval of the man who hired him, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

The mayor, working to recapture the public support he had when first elected in 2005, has restructured most of his top staff since winning re-election last yea