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She’s Running: Kamala Harris Makes Bid to Become Both First Woman and Woman...
California Sen. Kamala Harris officially entered the 2020 presidential election on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Harris made her announcement on Good Morning America. If elected, she would become...
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‘Why Are We Rushing the Vote?’ ~ Teachers Grumble But Overwhelmingly Approve...
Teachers left a UTLA West Area meeting on Tuesday afternoon angry but anyways leaning toward voting to approve a tentative agreement struck between the union representing thousands of educators and the...
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Back to School ‘With Our Heads Up’ ~ Teachers Ratify Contract, Ending Six-Day...
It’s over. And it only took six days of 30,000 striking L.A. teachers; three 50,000-people marches; a $125-million dollar blow to district coffers because of absent students; and one marathon 21-hour...
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City Hall Intrigue: Garcetti Appointee Resigns After Being Named in FBI...
Joel Jacinto, a commissioner on the five-member Board of Public Works, resigned last week from one of the plushiest seats on the city government’s appointed civilian boards after his name came up in an...
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More Than Half of Elite LAPD Gang Unit’s Searches Could Be Unconstitutional,...
A cop stops a guy for standing in the right-hand turn lane of a busy street while holding an electric scooter, and then pats him down. In this particular case, the police officer didn’t have any...
View ArticleCity Attorney to Drop Assault Charge Against Melina Abdullah After Wave of...
Los Angeles city prosecutors on Thursday offered to drop charges against a prominent black professor and civil rights leader who allegedly tugged at the arm of an LAPD officer during an emotional and...
View ArticleKevin de León Enters Race to Replace Jose Huizar on City Council
Kevin de León is running for Jose Huizar’s City Council seat in 2020, the former state senator announced Monday. Huizar, who is being investigated by the FBI for money laundering and other alleged...
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Jackie Goldberg Is Back: Liberal L.A. Veteran Takes on Charter Movement in...
The L.A.’s teachers union is on a roll. They led the first teachers strike in 30 years and, by most accounts, won big. They forced superintendent Austin Beutner to sign a new labor contract largely on...
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Monica Garcia Speaks to L.A. Taco on Developer Money in Council Race and...
Two heavy hitters from L.A.’s Eastside are officially going head-to-head in a contest to replace Jose Huizar on the City Council and represent L.A.’s 14th district, a traditional Latino power-base that...
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Jackie Goldberg Wins School Board Election, Again ~ Will Face Runoff
With 100 percent of of precincts reporting, Jackie Goldberg was the big winner of Tuesday’s special election to represent L.A. Unified’s 5th District on the Board of Education. With 48.26 percent of...
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Newsom Shuts Down Death Row ~ Governor Issues Moratorium on Death Penalty
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order placing a moratorium on executions on Wednesday, giving all 737 inmates on California’s death row a reprieve from being executed, theoretically...
View Article‘Very Disgusted’ ~ L.A. Sheriff, County Deepen Public Battle Over Deputy...
Alex Villanueva, who made history just five months ago when he defeated a sitting L.A. County sheriff in the November 2018 election, has spent the better part of his tenure so far locked in a public...
View ArticleJoe Biden Campaigns at King Taco Because Of Course
Presidential candidate Joe Biden stopped by King Taco in Pico-Union for a campaign photo-op and was asked about homelessness, immigration, and the “constitutional crisis” brewing in Washington. The...
View ArticleJackie Goldberg Wins School Board Election, Shifting LAUSD Charter School...
Jackie Goldberg won a blowout victory Tuesday in a runoff to fill a vacant seat on the Los Angeles Unified School Board. She did so with overwhelming support from the teachers union that backed her as...
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‘Legalize Apartments’ ~ How Another Attempt to Triage the Housing Crisis Died...
California’s zoning laws for building housing are a mess. There are 533 individual cities and counties in the state, and they all have different zoning laws from each other, a lot of them designed from...
View ArticleCommerce City Council Members Brawl at Hotel, Reports Say; Mayor Promises to...
Several elected officials on the Commerce City Council were allegedly involved in a Saturday night brawl at a desert resort, and now the mayor of Commerce says he will press charges in the incident....
View ArticleGarcetti Faces Backlash for Statements in Support of U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem
Religious groups in Los Angeles are asking for an apology from mayor Eric Garcetti after he expressed his support of the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a...
View ArticleAfter Coucilmen Brawl, City of Commerce Gets Banned From Local Government...
The City of Commerce has been suspended from the California Contract Cities Association after its mayor and at least two councilmen were involved in a brawl that erupted at a Coachella Valley resort...
View ArticleLadera Heights Woman Facing Eviction at Age 102 Is Promised Help from...
Los Angeles County officials say they are investigating the legality of an eviction notice served on a 102-year-old woman in Ladera Heights whose case sparked outrage on social media and a pledge of...
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News Update: ICE Raids Delayed, Huntington Park’s New ‘RoboCop’& Guerrilla’s...
View this post on Instagram It's getting real dystopian out there. @djwes chef and owner of @guerrillatacos breaks down the latest headlines and tells us about his new late night menu … because tacos...
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