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On L.A.’s Eastside, a new City Council member eyes a lobbyist to run her office
2 weeks, 3 days ago

On L.A.’s Eastside, a new City Council member eyes a lobbyist to run her office

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Councilmember-elect Ysabel Jurado, pictured Nov. 5, is looking to hire a former lobbyist as her chief of staff. However, three City Hall officials told The Times that Hodgins was introduced as Jurado’s new chief of staff at a recent luncheon in Mayor Karen Bass’ office. Lisa Gritzner, a veteran City Hall lobbyist who worked as a chief …

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Politicians on L.A.’s Eastside vow to kill warehouse planned near grade school
2 weeks, 6 days ago

Politicians on L.A.’s Eastside vow to kill warehouse planned near grade school

LA Times  

Politicians have lined up to oppose a warehouse proposed for an empty lot on Pasadena Avenue in Lincoln Heights. “You’re going to have trailers going in and out of there, all the pollution they’re going to be bringing in, all the additional trash.” Industrial developer Xebec Realty is listed on a city planning form as the company seeking to build …

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The sad, desperate, Hispandering end of Kevin de León's
1 month, 2 weeks ago

The sad, desperate, Hispandering end of Kevin de León's

LA Times  

He preened, he hugged, he shook hands and hobnobbed with legends and politicians. Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León was in full campaign mode two days before Tuesday’s election, when voters would decide whether he deserved a second term. But what De León’s supporters don’t get is that the Latino Power strategy that long fueled Eastside politics is over …

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Column: Political novice Ysabel Jurado celebrates on her road to Eastside history
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Column: Political novice Ysabel Jurado celebrates on her road to Eastside history

LA Times  

Ysabel Jurado, lower right, running for Los Angeles City Council District 14, poses for a selfie with Councilmember Nithya Raman, former L.A. City Councilmember Mike Bonin, in cap, Los Angeles City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, background, and others at her election night party. In the last two weeks of the campaign, the Los Angeles Police Protective League contributed $445,000 to De …

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Battles between Latino and Asian political candidates could reshape L.A.’s Eastside
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Battles between Latino and Asian political candidates could reshape L.A.’s Eastside

LA Times  

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. Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León, center, sent a text message warning that Latino representation in his district is “threatened.” His opponent, Ysabel Jurado, called it racially divisive. At the same time, …

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Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado trade insults in fight for Eastside city council seat
3 months, 1 week ago

Kevin de León and Ysabel Jurado trade insults in fight for Eastside city council seat

LA Times  

Ysabel Jurado made a huge splash on Los Angeles’ Eastside last spring, coming in first in the five-way primary election for a City Council seat representing neighborhoods stretching from downtown to Eagle Rock. Since 2020, the year De León took office, the city has opened “tiny-home villages” for unhoused residents in Eagle Rock, Highland Park and Boyle Heights. So has …

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Richard Alatorre, pioneering Eastside politician, dies at 81
4 months, 1 week ago

Richard Alatorre, pioneering Eastside politician, dies at 81

LA Times  

Richard Alatorre addresses fellow Los Angeles City Council members in 1986. “A lot of us considered Alatorre to be a vato who made good,” said Jaime Regalado, professor emeritus of political science at Cal State L.A. Alatorre frequently spoke at Regalado’s classes and was more than happy to take questions from students who thought he was a vendido — a …

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Los Angeles’ Eastside shaken by third earthquake in a month
6 months ago

Los Angeles’ Eastside shaken by third earthquake in a month

LA Times  

A magnitude 2.9 earthquake struck underneath the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno on Monday morning, causing weak shaking throughout the Eastside and the San Gabriel Valley. Assuming that depth is correct, the quake — like the earlier June temblors — was just beneath the plane of the Puente Hills thrust fault, said USC earth sciences professor James Dolan. A …

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Star of Netflix prison show Unlocked dies age 29: Inmate John McAllister dubbed 'Eastside' in hit series is found dead in his cell
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Star of Netflix prison show Unlocked dies age 29: Inmate John McAllister dubbed 'Eastside' in hit series is found dead in his cell

Daily Mail  

One of the breakout stars of Netflix's hugely controversial documentary series Unlocked has died at the age of 29 just 30 days before he was due to be released. John McAllister, 29, pictured during the filming of Netflix's Unlocked McAllister's humor in the face of such bleak conditions made a fan favorite on the show McAllister was serving time for …

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The Eastside, cradle of Latino politics, is squabbling once again
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The Eastside, cradle of Latino politics, is squabbling once again

LA Times  

This is the first in a four-part series on how Latino political power has changed Los Angeles. California Politics on the Eastside: Clout, but No Machine Latino activists in Los Angeles often refer to a “political machine” that operates on the city’s Eastside. New faces broke through the Eastside’s political thickets: Rocky Delgadillo became city attorney in 2001, while Huizar …

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A surprising new tactic against a reputed Mexican Mafia boss. Will it work?
11 months, 4 weeks ago

A surprising new tactic against a reputed Mexican Mafia boss. Will it work?

LA Times  

Gabriel Huerta, who is already serving a sentence of 17 years to life in state prison for murder, is now charged with conspiring to beat up a Wilmington gang member who lost a gun. At a federal racketeering trial last year, a witness testified that Huerta sat on the Mexican Mafia’s “commission,” a three-man governing body that settles internal disputes. …

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Proposed USC research facility revives worries of gentrification on L.A.’s Eastside
1 year, 1 month ago

Proposed USC research facility revives worries of gentrification on L.A.’s Eastside

LA Times  

Protesters march last week toward USC’s Health Science Campus in Boyle Heights to rally against a proposed research facility that they say will exacerbate gentrification in Eastside neighborhoods. For some Eastside residents and local organizers, a proposed research facility at USC’s Health Sciences Campus in Boyle Heights is the latest example of a decades-long wave of gentrification spurred in part …

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Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: You said you were the anti-De León, Wendy. You’re more like a disappointment

LA Times  

The L.A. politics chisme mill flooded my phone with texts and calls this morning. Not the candidate for the L.A. City Council 14th District seat held by Kevin de León in a race that’s roiling Eastside politics. Considered one of De León’s two main challengers, her arrest will inevitably launch a sea of “Wino Wendy” opposition mailers from now until …

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Gloria Molina, Chicana who blazed paths across L.A. politics, dies
1 year, 7 months ago

Gloria Molina, Chicana who blazed paths across L.A. politics, dies

LA Times  

Gloria Molina, the daughter of working-class parents and an unapologetic Chicana who transformed the political landscape of Los Angeles, died Sunday night after a three-year battle with cancer. “Even though we were poor, I was never at home ever felt to be poor,” Molina said in a 2017 interview for Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Oral and Public History. “We …

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Column: Wendy Carrillo explains why she’s running against her former ally, Kevin de León
1 year, 7 months ago

Column: Wendy Carrillo explains why she’s running against her former ally, Kevin de León

LA Times  

Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, at her family home in Boyle Heights, on Thursday is officially announcing her intention to run for Kevin de León’s City Council seat. Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo walks near “El Corrido de Boyle Heights,” a mural painted in 1983 that was defaced by graffiti. When she ran into Brenda Martinez, a member of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council, …

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Column: May Jose Huizar’s fall be the end of the ‘Eastside politico’
1 year, 11 months ago

Column: May Jose Huizar’s fall be the end of the ‘Eastside politico’

LA Times  

When news broke this week that former Los Angeles Councilmember Jose Huizar was going to plead guilty to federal racketeering charges for his role in a corruption scandal that rocked Los Angeles politics, I immediately thought of “American Me.” No, not the overwrought Edward James Olmos movie about the origins of the Mexican Mafia — I’m talking about the long-forgotten …

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Rising rents and police abolition roil an Eastside race for L.A. City Council
2 years, 6 months ago

Rising rents and police abolition roil an Eastside race for L.A. City Council

LA Times  

Community activist Eunisses Hernandez, running for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, goes door to door in Glassell Park to reach voters. political career is funded by billionaires.” That last remark is a swipe at political spending by at least two of Hernandez’s backers: Patty Quillin, spouse of Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings, and philanthropist Elizabeth Simons, daughter …

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Time for California to mimic Vancouver's safe drug-use sites
2 years, 7 months ago

Time for California to mimic Vancouver's safe drug-use sites

LA Times  

In the coastal cold of a Vancouver morning, nine people crowded at the door of the Insite safe injection center, itching for it to open so they could shoot heroin and fentanyl inside. “There is a fine line between enabling and keeping someone safe,” she said, “and they’ve crossed it a long time ago.” She was standing outside a government-funded …

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Charles voices shock at Ukraine war during chat with refugee
2 years, 9 months ago

Charles voices shock at Ukraine war during chat with refugee

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Maryna Opanasenko, who arrived in Northern Ireland earlier this month having escaped Ukraine via …

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Club Eastside vicious attack leaves man cut, bruised, patrons in shock
2 years, 9 months ago

Club Eastside vicious attack leaves man cut, bruised, patrons in shock

ABC  

Northern Territory police are calling for witnesses after an alleged unprovoked attack on staff members and patrons at an Alice Springs club overnight. Key points: A 63-year-old patron of Club Eastside was left cut and bruised after the incident The owner of the club alleges an 18-year-old was refused entry for being intoxicated, then attacked staff and threatened patrons with …

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Census reports declining population on L.A.’s Eastside, fueling undercount fears
3 years, 3 months ago

Census reports declining population on L.A.’s Eastside, fueling undercount fears

LA Times  

Mariachis cross 1st Street in Boyle Heights. Highland Park, a neighborhood on the city’s northeast end, recorded a decline in population of more than 3,900 people between 2010 and 2020, according to census figures released by the city’s Redistricting Commission. Garcetti said the Trump administration provided few resources and pushed repeatedly for census forms to include a question about residents’ …

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No place to study, hunger and inadequate computers hurt Eastside and South L.A. students
4 years, 3 months ago

No place to study, hunger and inadequate computers hurt Eastside and South L.A. students

LA Times  

Families wait in line in April at the Mar Vista Family Center for free food and headphones, which students use to screen out noise while studying at home. Los Angeles families with school-age children in Boyle Heights, South Los Angeles and Watts struggled with access to computers and adequate internet throughout the spring semester while facing job losses and food …

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