Zoo Privatization

Looks like it is part of the plan to save Los Angeles from the financial maelstrom. Looks like they might be selling off a lot of things. From a reporter at the Los Angeles Business Journal with the most unlikely name of Howard Fine (sounds like one of the Three Stooges):

The city is facing a $450 million deficit in the 2009-10 fiscal year beginning July 1 and a projected deficit of at least $500 million the following year.