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In the race for Los Angeles City Attorney, candidate Faisal Gill has built his campaign on personal loans. His challenger Hydee Feldstein Soto relies on traditional donations.
In 1953 at age 22, Rosalind "Roz" Wyman became the youngest person — and the second woman — elected to the Los Angeles City Council. While in office, she helped convince the Brooklyn Dodgers to relocate to L.A. She died at age 92 on October 28, 2022.
Proposition LH is a measure on the ballot this November in order to gain voters' approval to build affordable housing. That's only because of Article 34, a.k.a. the "Public Housing Project Law" — an amendment to the California state constitution with racist underpinnings that was passed in 1950 and has yet to be repealed.
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 1439 — a bill that will bar local elected officials from accepting or soliciting campaign contributions of over $250 from pending contractors.
The Los Angeles City Council voted to approve Tranzito-Vector for a 10-year contract to install, upgrade and maintain bus stop shelters and shade structures, some with digital billboards.
At a May 27, 2022 meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of evoking eminent domain in order to seize a 124-unit Chinatown apartment building, Hillside Villa, from its landlord.
An effort to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón was rejected, with only 520,050 valid petition signatures, well short of the required 566,857.
At a disruptive meeting that resulted in one arrest, Los Angeles City Council voted to ban homeless encampments within 500 feet of schools and daycare centers.
After taking office in December, Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón issued directives critics have called soft on crime. Now, Over 700,000 petition signatures have now been collected in a bid to recall the DA.
Responding to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, California legislators push a bill to restrict concealed carry permits. New numbers show a wide variation among counties in how many permits have been issued. But in publishing the data, the state Department of Justice exposed personal information of permit holders.
Just days after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, the California Legislature voted to place on the November ballot an amendment to the state constitution guaranteeing access to abortion and contraceptives.
Southland elected leaders today blasted the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal abortion protections of Roe v. Wade.