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I-10 Freeway In Downtown Los Angeles Closed After Major Fire Saturday

November 13, 2023 11:50 amNovember 13, 2023 11:50 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared emergencies over the weekend over the closure of a stretch of Interstate 1o in Downtown Los Angeles due to a massive fire, with transportation and emergency officials hoping to...

Los Angeles, San Francisco Mayors Clean Up Cities for Visiting Dignitaries But not for Residents

November 10, 2023 11:08 amNovember 13, 2023 8:59 am

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who ludicrously chairs the U.S. Conference of Mayors’s Homelessness Task Force, is hosting a two-day U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering to discuss the challenges in addressing homelessness. At the same time, San Francisco Mayor London...

SAG-AFTRA Reaches Tentative Agreement To End 118-Day-Long Strike

November 9, 2023 12:19 pmNovember 9, 2023 12:19 pm

The 2023 Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television (SAG-AFTRA) strike ended at Midnight on Thursday following both the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) reaching a new agreement. The SAG-AFTRA strike, which started on July...

LA Pays $1.8 Million to Garcetti Aide Victim

November 9, 2023 2:56 amNovember 9, 2023 2:57 am

Wednesday, the Los Angeles City council approved a $1.8 million settlement payment to the LAPD officer former Mayor Garcetti’s political fixer Rick Jacobs sexually harassed while the mayor sat by and did nothing. Jacobs repeatedly and explicitly harassed Mathew Garza...

Gov. Newsom Announces $156.4 Million Project Homekey Expansion

November 9, 2023 2:30 amNovember 9, 2023 2:31 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that Project Homekey will be expanding once again, sending a total of $156.4 million in grants to six counties across California. According to Newsom and a parallel announcement by the California Department of Housing...

WeWork Announces Closures Of 14 Office Sites In California

November 8, 2023 11:58 amNovember 8, 2023 11:58 am

Following their bankruptcy announcement earlier this week, co-working space company WeWork announced a mass closure of almost 70 prominent offices across the United States on Tuesday, with California to have 14 locations to close soon mostly in the Bay Area...

Call for DA Gascon Recusal

November 8, 2023 2:45 amNovember 8, 2023 6:26 am

Imagine you are a District Attorney and you are listening to a purportedly illegally obtained audio tape on which a fellow elected official says “F**k that guy – He’s with the Blacks.” Then imagine you are a District Attorney who...