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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, 3 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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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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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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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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