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AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions
3 months ago

AI? New jobs? California’s local news deal with Google leaves lots of unanswered questions

LA Times  

A woman walks by the Above the Fold newsstand on Thursday in Los Angeles. “It was very hard to pass this legislation in Google’s backyard,” said Julie Makinen, chair of the California News Publishers Assn., the bill’s lead sponsor. California Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, said: “My goal was to get resources into the hands of publications as quickly as we could, …

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Column: California’s budget relies on the richest taxpayers, and we’re paying the price
8 months ago

Column: California’s budget relies on the richest taxpayers, and we’re paying the price

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom discusses his proposed state budget for the 2024-25 fiscal year, during a news conference in Sacramento on Jan. 10. “I hated the subject with every bone in my body,” he recalls, “but I did it to prevent what’s happening today.” This is what we’re talking about: Based on the 2021 tax year, the top 1% of California earners …

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Horvath declares victory in Los Angeles County supervisors race
2 years, 1 month ago

Horvath declares victory in Los Angeles County supervisors race

LA Times  

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath and her team claimed victory in the Los Angeles County supervisor District 3 race to replace Sheila Kuehl on Thursday. Horvath trailed state Sen. Bob Hertzberg on election day, but rallied on every subsequent vote dump. West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath declared victory Thursday evening for the only vacant Los Angeles County supervisor …

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Hertzberg has a slight lead over Horvath in race for L.A. County supervisor
2 years, 1 month ago

Hertzberg has a slight lead over Horvath in race for L.A. County supervisor

LA Times  

State Sen. Bob Hertzberg has a slight lead over West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath in the race to become Los Angeles County Supervisor representing the 3rd District, according to early returns Wednesday morning. “I have the experience and the knowledge at this level to deliver for the voters of Los Angeles County.” Horvath, 40, has been a member of …

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The chasm in the District 3 supervisor’s race
2 years, 1 month ago

The chasm in the District 3 supervisor’s race

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. While much attention has been focused on the Los Angeles mayor’s race, the contest for the next Los Angeles County supervisor in charge of District 3 will likely be a close call heading into Tuesday. Los Angeles Times Security cameras for the Pelosi home weren’t being “actively monitored,” the Capitol Police …

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Census, term limit change means big turnover for lawmakers
2 years, 2 months ago

Census, term limit change means big turnover for lawmakers

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An unusually high number of California lawmakers will be gone after the November election due to a collision between redistricting in 2020 and changes to term limits that voters approved a decade ago. Democrats hold a 13 percentage point voter registration advantage, but the California Target Book, which tracks legislative contests, puts that within Republicans’ reach because …

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L.A. on the Record: Best frenemies skirmish in the Sepulveda Pass
2 years, 3 months ago

L.A. on the Record: Best frenemies skirmish in the Sepulveda Pass

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. After the topic veered to the recent burglary of Bass’ home and Caruso raised questions about the guns that had been stolen from her, Bass masterfully wielded a bit of emotion to say she was “disheartened” by Caruso’s response and reminded “the people of Los Angeles” …

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Seeking higher office, WeHo councilwoman scrubs WeHo from her bio
2 years, 5 months ago

Seeking higher office, WeHo councilwoman scrubs WeHo from her bio

LA Times  

Lindsey Horvath, a member of the West Hollywood City Council, is running for Los Angeles County supervisor. “Lo and behold, when she wants to get to higher office, we don’t matter anymore,” said Jerome Cleary, a 36-year West Hollywood resident and former City Council candidate. In a statement to The Times, Eric Hacopian, Horvath’s campaign strategist, called any focus on …

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L.A. on the Record: The last-minute ballots swung left
2 years, 6 months ago

L.A. on the Record: The last-minute ballots swung left

LA Times  

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our local elections newsletter. Los Angeles City Councilman Mike Bonin has a zippy phrase to sum up what’s happened with the city’s election results over the past week: “progressive political earthquake.” Bonin was referring to the large number of left-of-center candidates who rose to first place as the ballots continued …

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Endorsement: Caroline Menjivar for state Senate
2 years, 7 months ago

Endorsement: Caroline Menjivar for state Senate

LA Times  

Voters in the San Fernando Valley’s 20th state Senate District face this choice: Be represented by someone with a consistent record of public service or someone who has only dabbled in that work? They include three Democrats — his son Daniel Hertzberg, attorney Seydi Alejandra Morales, and Caroline Menjivar, a director of a nonprofit organization — and one Republican, real …

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Homeless shelters begin to see value in making room for pets
2 years, 7 months ago

Homeless shelters begin to see value in making room for pets

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Being homeless in Los Angeles and struggling with addiction is hard enough, but Rachel Niebur couldn’t imagine enduring it without her dog Petey. “We realize that pets are like family to people.” The Venice shelter operated by the nonprofit People Assisting the Homeless, or PATH, was the first of its kind in Los Angeles County to allow …

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A snapshot of new state government efforts to tackle California’s housing crisis
2 years, 8 months ago

A snapshot of new state government efforts to tackle California’s housing crisis

LA Times  

A year after the creation of sweeping laws to increase the construction of duplexes and small apartment buildings, California lawmakers have turned their attention to money for affordable housing and easing the burdens of homeownership for first-time buyers. The bill, scheduled for a legislative hearing later this month, would exempt on-campus student and faculty housing projects from the state’s stringent …

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California may empower citizens to sue over illegal firearms
2 years, 8 months ago

California may empower citizens to sue over illegal firearms

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stung by a deadly mass shooting Sunday mere blocks from the state Capitol, California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced an innovative new approach to gun control that would empower private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons. “California leads the nation in enacting robust gun laws…and we’re still seeing this unprecedented level of gun violence,” Democratic …

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Column: Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on
2 years, 10 months ago

Column: Texas abortion law gives gun-controlling California, gun lobby something to agree on

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom speaks to the media on Friday, in Del Mar, Calif., where he backed state legislation that would allow for private citizens to enforce the state’s ban on assault weapons. “The Supreme Court of the United States opened a door wide open.. “If Texas can use a law to ban a woman’s right to choose and to put her …

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State Senate leader Bob Hertzberg to run for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
2 years, 11 months ago

State Senate leader Bob Hertzberg to run for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

LA Times  

State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, shown in 2019 at the Capitol in Sacramento, plans to run for a seat on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. Veteran Democratic legislator Bob Hertzberg plans to run for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, upending the race to represent the San Fernando Valley on the powerful panel. Hertzberg, who serves as the majority …

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Latest California bail reform effort dies for this year
3 years, 3 months ago

Latest California bail reform effort dies for this year

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A parolee’s arrest in a killing after he’d been released without bail helped torpedo the California Legislature’s latest attempt to reform the cash bail system for this year, the bill’s author said Thursday. El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, the district attorneys association’s president, said lawmakers supporting changes to the bail system are “expressing sympathy toward …

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Like father, like son? Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo and the Supreme Court seat that never was
3 years, 8 months ago

Like father, like son? Andrew Cuomo, Mario Cuomo and the Supreme Court seat that never was

Salon  

Andrew Cuomo figured ambiguously but, as it has turned out, fatefully, in a remembrance of his father Mario Cuomo, written in 2015 by The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on the occasion of the elder Cuomo's passing. Yet in a series of bizarre, increasingly bathetic, then pathetic and ultimately tragic back-and-forths between Andrew and Clinton's communications director George Stephanopoulos, Mario Cuomo …

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California retains cash bail, rejects punishment rollbacks
4 years, 1 month ago

California retains cash bail, rejects punishment rollbacks

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Fresh from months of protests over the police killings of people of color and national angst over racial inequities in the criminal justice system, California voters rejected an effort to roll back reforms targeting mass incarceration and reinstate tougher criminal penalties. 20 would tackle violent crime and retail theft.” Voters saw a distinction between the proposed criminal …

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California oil production limits stall in Legislature, leaving the issue to Newsom
4 years, 4 months ago

California oil production limits stall in Legislature, leaving the issue to Newsom

LA Times  

In his first year in office, Gov. In November, Newsom administration officials said the Department of Conservation would “consider the best available science and data” to determine if health and safety buffers were warranted around wells, stopping short of the mandate for setbacks included in the ill-fated legislation, Assembly Bill 345. Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Assn., …

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