LA Joins the 'Open Data' Movement

How many City workers were paid more last year than the Mayor? What was the revenue from parking fines or the Zoo? How much was spent on tree-trimming or the LAPD? What did the city pay for clowns? You can find the answers at Control Panel LA, City Controller Ron Galperin's new website that opens city finances to public scrutiny. We find out how computer savvy you need to be. Also, a challenge to California's new law protecting transgender students, and where do all those parrots come from?

On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, President Obama and Pakistan's new Prime Minister met yesterday in hopes of strengthening a troubled alliance. We look at how the relationship is complicated by nuclear weapons, terrorism and a lack of mutual trust.

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