Benjamin Gottlieb
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Benjamin Max Gottlieb is an associate producer for KCET's award-winning news program, "SoCal Connected."
His work has been featured in a variety of news outlets, including the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN International, NPR, Global Post and the Santa Barbara Independent, among others.
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Posted What This Week's Supreme Court Ruling Means For L.A.'s 3 Marijuana Ballot Measures
in Ballot BriefThe California Supreme Court ruled Monday that localities have the right to invoke zoning laws to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, despite a California state law which allows medicinal pot to be grown and distributed to needy patients. -
Posted Cheat Sheet: Proposition C Seeks to Limit Corporations' Influence on Campaigns
in Ballot BriefRoughly $6 billion were spent in the 2012 election season on political campaigns, with much of that money coming from corporations, labor unions and special interest groups. Proposition C would instruct L.A.'s Washington contingent to support any legislation that would limit spending in political races by the aforementioned groups. -
Commented on Understanding the Difference Between L.A.'s 3 Medical Marijuana Measures
in Ballot BriefHi Leeroy, Thank you for your comment. You are correct. A "residential collective" is defined here as a household where marijuana is cultivated by a prescription-holding person or persons. Dwellings zoned residential would be exempt from all regulations put forth... -
At Coachella, L.A. artists continue to dominate the festival's art arena.
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Photo: Dank Depot/Filckr/Creative Commons License After two voter-led medical marijuana initiatives made their way onto Los Angeles' May 21 ballot, the City Council was determined to act. Proposition D is the Los Angeles City Council's response to these two initiatives...
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Photo: City of West Hollywood/Filckr/Creative Commons License Originally supported by the Committee to Protect Patients and Neighborhoods and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, Ordinance E is now the odd man out in this three-pronged medical marijuana debate....
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Photo: eggrole/Filckr/Creative Commons License There are an estimated 1,700-1,800 medical marijuana dispensaries currently operating in Los Angeles. However, if the city of Los Angeles and the City Council had their way, they'd like to limit that number to 135. Therein...
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The future of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles will be decided by the voters come May 21. The crux of the argument comes down to proliferation of pot clinics, not tax increases, as the two frontrunners stand on the opposite isle of the access to medicinal pot debate.
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The Governor's budget proposal includes an estimated $831 million surplus, the first in more than a decade.
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A legal war has been brewing between a tiny vocal group of therapists and the State of California, backed by the larger medical establishment.
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California Governor Jerry Brown is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, the Governor's Office said today in a statement.
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Initial election results in California's competitive 31st District have Republican Congressman Gary Miller leading State Senator Bob Dutton by a 10 percent margin.
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Barack Obama is projected to return to the White House for a second term as President of the United States. Multiple news sources, including CBS, CNN and MSNBC, called the race around 8:20 PST, citing a projected victory in...
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Like the worn-out cliché, "As goes Ohio, so goes the Nation," the next President of the United States will once again be decided by a handful of states.
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Despite the spending deficit and the Republican Party's support for Miller, the race for California's 31st District remains up in the air.
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One-in-five Americans – and one-third of adults under 30 – do not identify with any organized religion, a new poll finds.
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No list of this kind is complete without Noshi Sushi in Koreatown. http://www.noshisushila.com/ The $3 spicy tuna rolls (a homemade concoction) is worth a trip by themselves. Add a fully-loaded, traditional Japanese menu, and you just can't go wrong!...
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Sikhs throughout the region have found a welcoming home at the Vermont Gurdwara in Los Feliz.
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It's been more than two months since the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to ditch the city's widely unpopular -- and admittedly costly -- red light camera program.
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Commented on Understanding the Difference Between L.A.'s 3 Medical Marijuana Measures
in Ballot BriefHi Leeroy, Thank you for your comment. You are correct. A "residential collective" is defined here as a household where marijuana is cultivated by a prescription-holding person or persons. Dwellings zoned residential would be exempt from all regulations put forth... -
No list of this kind is complete without Noshi Sushi in Koreatown. http://www.noshisushila.com/ The $3 spicy tuna rolls (a homemade concoction) is worth a trip by themselves. Add a fully-loaded, traditional Japanese menu, and you just can't go wrong!...
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Posted What This Week's Supreme Court Ruling Means For L.A.'s 3 Marijuana Ballot Measures
in Ballot BriefThe California Supreme Court ruled Monday that localities have the right to invoke zoning laws to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, despite a California state law which allows medicinal pot to be grown and distributed to needy patients. -
Posted Cheat Sheet: Proposition C Seeks to Limit Corporations' Influence on Campaigns
in Ballot BriefRoughly $6 billion were spent in the 2012 election season on political campaigns, with much of that money coming from corporations, labor unions and special interest groups. Proposition C would instruct L.A.'s Washington contingent to support any legislation that would limit spending in political races by the aforementioned groups. -
At Coachella, L.A. artists continue to dominate the festival's art arena.
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Photo: Dank Depot/Filckr/Creative Commons License After two voter-led medical marijuana initiatives made their way onto Los Angeles' May 21 ballot, the City Council was determined to act. Proposition D is the Los Angeles City Council's response to these two initiatives...
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Photo: City of West Hollywood/Filckr/Creative Commons License Originally supported by the Committee to Protect Patients and Neighborhoods and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, Ordinance E is now the odd man out in this three-pronged medical marijuana debate....
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Photo: eggrole/Filckr/Creative Commons License There are an estimated 1,700-1,800 medical marijuana dispensaries currently operating in Los Angeles. However, if the city of Los Angeles and the City Council had their way, they'd like to limit that number to 135. Therein...
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The future of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles will be decided by the voters come May 21. The crux of the argument comes down to proliferation of pot clinics, not tax increases, as the two frontrunners stand on the opposite isle of the access to medicinal pot debate.
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The Governor's budget proposal includes an estimated $831 million surplus, the first in more than a decade.
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A legal war has been brewing between a tiny vocal group of therapists and the State of California, backed by the larger medical establishment.
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California Governor Jerry Brown is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, the Governor's Office said today in a statement.
