Vernon City Library is a Storage Room

By Conor McGarry
03/01/2017
Vernon is small industrial city with more city staff than residents. Despite its small population, we were surprised to learn recently that it has a municipal library. While doing research for our forthcoming Civic Profiles update, a CPC researcher found that the library was open zero hours per week and had a mere 1093 books....

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Vernon, California: More Public Employees Than Residents

By Conor McGarry
10/12/2016
Vernon, California is so famous for its history of corruption that it was the municipal star of season two of HBO’s “True Detective” series. Now the tiny L.A. County city can claim another achievement: Vernon is the only California city with more public employees than residents. Vernon’s 210 residents are served by 271 city employees,...

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Top 10: Vernon Leads California Cities with More Public Employees Than Residents

By Will Swaim
10/11/2016
For Immediate Release October 11, 2016 California Policy Center Contact: Will Swaim Will@CalPolicyCenter.org (714) 573-2231 Vernon, California is so famous for its history of corruption that it was the municipal star of season 2 of HBO’s “True Detective” series. Now the diminutive L.A. County town can claim another achievement: Vernon is the only California city with more public employees than...

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