Mayor heading to D.C.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be among 200 mayors descending on Washington, D.C., next week to lobby the new Congress on the need for funding for cities.
The mayors will meet with President Obama and his cabinet and hold discussions on strategies to improve jobs creation.
The mayors are concerned about how the federal government can help cities with the unemployed.
Villaraigosa is scheduled to lead a panel discussion the importance of the Community Development Block Grant programs.
He also is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at one if its luncheons.
Villaraigosa is to become president of the organization this summer.