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How Does a California Family Survive?

June 27, 2019 2:20 amJune 27, 2019 7:33 am

It’s common enough to discuss the high cost-of-living in California. It’s become a serious topic, at last. But for Californians who are used to paying ridiculous prices for everything, it may be helpful to present a comparison in the form...

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LA’s Purple Line Subway Expansion: Under a Public School, Through Methane Zone and Abandoned Oil Wells

June 24, 2019 2:06 amJune 25, 2019 6:11 am

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding a line of the Los Angeles subway system directly beneath the historic Beverly Hills High School, through ground littered with more than 80 abandoned oil wells and saturated with methane gas and...

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Big Blow to Mayor Garcetti in the defeat of Measure EE in Los Angeles

June 5, 2019 11:18 amJune 10, 2019 12:22 pm

Following the contentious Los Angeles Unified School District strike in January, the controversial property tax hike proposed by the school district went down in a resounding defeat Tuesday. Measure EE garnered only about 45 percent of voter approval when it...

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LA DA Jackie Lacey Suddenly Struggling

April 10, 2019 11:15 amApril 11, 2019 6:38 am

Does Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey have a re-election problem on her hands? The county’s first African-American and woman to hold the office was first elected in 2012 and ran unopposed in 2016. But ahead of her 2020 re-election...

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LA Teachers Ready to Walk the Line

January 14, 2019 5:15 amJanuary 17, 2019 1:03 pm

Teachers in Los Angeles will be walking a picket line on Monday for only the third time in the Los Angeles Teachers Union’s (UTLA) five-decade history. The battle lines drawn in this dispute appear to be about not only salaries...

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Garcetti Goes Full-On Identity Pol on Sunday TV

October 24, 2018 11:00 amOctober 24, 2018 10:56 am

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said yesterday that Democrats should appeal to Latino voters by putting more Latino candidates on the ballot. This call for hardcore identity politics might strike some as self-serving since Garcetti, both Jewish and Mexican-American, is...

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Venice Residents Bash Representative Over Homeless Shelter

October 18, 2018 5:30 pmOctober 19, 2018 12:03 pm

While defending a contentious proposal to build a homeless shelter in Venice California earlier today, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Councilman Mike Bonin and Police Chief Michel Moore braced for an ugly town hall. The packed elementary school auditorium mostly...