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Desperate Old Man Dances for Votes: Gascon Takes to TikTok

October 21, 2024 2:45 amOctober 21, 2024 2:46 am

Sometimes, when something is “cringe worthy” you feel bad for the person. Maybe they just didn’t get the premise, maybe they meant it as a lark, maybe they had a few tee many martoonis or maybe they said inherently meaningless...

AG Bonta Reportedly Challenging LA Council Districts

October 18, 2024 3:57 pmOctober 18, 2024 3:57 pm

Nury Martinez may get her wish after all. As you may recall, Martinez was Los Angeles City Council President when she and two other council members and a union boss had a private meeting about re-drawing the council district map...

No Charges in Infamous LA Council Recording Case

October 17, 2024 3:34 pmOctober 17, 2024 3:34 pm

It caused an international incident – a trio of Los Angeles City councilmembers having a rather racial stereotype filled chat with a local union leader as to how best to carve up the city to decrease the number of black...

Family Members Hold Presser to Free Menendez Brothers

October 16, 2024 4:50 pmOctober 16, 2024 4:50 pm

Erik and Lyle Menendez killed their parents, Jose and Kitty. That has never really been at issue. In fact, they snuck up on them and shotgunned both of them from behind – Kitty wasn’t quite dead so one of the...

Coachella, Donald Trump & the Sheriff

October 15, 2024 12:11 pmOctober 15, 2024 12:11 pm

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s deputies stopped a guy with some guns and fake ID’s and driving an unregistered car from entering the Donald Trump event in Coachella over the weekend. Those are the facts and show that Bianco’s team...

From Sheriff to Governor: Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco Mulling Run

October 15, 2024 1:30 amOctober 15, 2024 1:31 am

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is reportedly thinking about the governor’s office. Bianco, a lifelong law enforcer, was first elected Riverside County’s sheriff in 2018 – he was re-elected to the job in 2022 with nearly two-thirds of the vote....

CalWORKs ‘Assistance Unit’ Doesn’t

October 13, 2024 8:33 amOctober 13, 2024 8:33 am

Assistance unit. That is what the state’s welfare program – dubbed CalWORKs because it sounds better than CalGetsFreeMoneyForMakingBadChoices – refers to its beneficiaries as: an “assistance unit.” Not a family, not a household (those things could be very different, let...