A key committee of the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to cut the number of employees targeted for layoff by Mayor Karen Bass by more than half, bringing the total down to an estimated 650. The council’s budget committee […]
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When Los Angeles City Council members took up a plan to hike the wages of tourism workers this week, they received some carefully worded advice from city lawyers: Don’t vote on this yet. Senior Assistant City Atty. Michael J. Dundas
L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.” City Administrative Officer Matt Szabo advised the City
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For the last decade, the Los Angeles City Council chamber has been center stage for some of the meanest, most offensive messages delivered in an open government forum. A few speakers routinely hurl racial slurs, antisemitic phrases or other forms
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For more than two months, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has faced lacerating criticism over her handling of the Palisades fire — her absence from the country when it erupted, her wobbly public appearances once she returned, even her failure
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The Los Angeles City Council hiked the rate that it pays for services at many of its homeless shelters on Friday, in an attempt to keep nonprofit contractors from pulling out of more than a dozen sites. The council passed
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An 18-year-old man was killed and six others injured in a hit-and-run crash that took place outside a Starbucks in L.A.’s Chinatown neighborhood, authorities said on Saturday. Emergency personnel responded shortly before 12:45 a.m. to the scene of a two-car
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He kept thousands of text messages. He took photos of bribe money. He recorded his boss, then-Los Angeles City Councilmember Jose Huizar, demanding that money in a City Hall bathroom. George Esparza, a central figure in Huizar’s sprawling pay-to-play operation,
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The text message that showed up on the phones of Eastside voters last month began with a warning: Forty years of Latino political representation is under threat. The ad from Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León’s reelection campaign also
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Long before she uttered the words “F— the police,” Los Angeles City Council candidate Ysabel Jurado made clear she was not happy with the city’s approach to public safety. In a candidate questionnaire last year, Jurado promised to move money
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