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Former LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Announces Another Run for California Governor

July 23, 2024 12:55 pmJuly 23, 2024 12:55 pm

Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced on Tuesday that he would be officially running for Governor in 2026. A graduate of UCLA and the People’s College of Law, Villaraigosa was early on a leader of MEChA, a Chicano political...

LA Homeless Report Finds City Has Been Actively Making People Lose Shelter

July 6, 2024 2:25 amJuly 6, 2024 2:26 am

A new report unveiled at the Los Angeles City Council meeting earlier this week found that the city impounded 555 vehicles in which homeless people lived in while only offering shelter to 186 in the pat two years, going directly...

Los Angeles Homeless Count Falls By 2.2% According To Latest Homeless Count

June 30, 2024 2:45 amJune 30, 2024 2:46 am

A new study released by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority Friday found that the number of homeless in the City of Los Angeles fell by 2.2% from last year. The overall number in Los Angeles County went down by...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Allows Cities to Ban Homeless Camps

June 28, 2024 4:50 pmJune 28, 2024 4:50 pm

In a 6-3 decision on Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land does not violate the eighth amendment protections from cruel and unusual punishments, clearing the way for cities to more...

UCLA Pro-Palestinian Protest: More Than 200 Arrested, Encampment Removed By Police

May 2, 2024 5:56 pmMay 2, 2024 5:56 pm

The Pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of UCLA was removed in the early hours of the morning on Thursday, with police coming in and arrested hundreds of protestors, while more than 300 others voluntarily left. Until Thursday morning, UCLA...

LA City Council Approves Evaluation of Creating a Department Of Homelessness

May 2, 2024 2:45 amMay 2, 2024 2:46 am

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously 13-0 to begin evaluating the creation of a Department of Homelessness on Tuesday, to better centralize overseeing homeless initiatives in the city. In recent years, the homeless situation in LA and LA County...

15 Injured, 1 Hospitalized Following More Gaza Protests At UCLA

May 1, 2024 4:36 pmMay 1, 2024 5:58 pm

15 protesters were injured, and one was sent to the hospital late on Tuesday and early in the morning Wednesday, as both Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli protestors clashed once again on campus. While protests against the Gaza war have been raging...