CITY PLANNING - Los Angeles politicians regularly promise to build more housing. They propose zoning changes, greater density, financial incentives and new ordinances intended to encourage development ...

Bring in qualified independent auditors immediately to conduct a forensic audit—a thorough review of financial records for evidence of waste, fraud, embezzlement, regulatory violations, or other ...

Official records appear to show the Republican Central Committee of L.A. received $200,000 from a pro-Mayor Karen Bass police political committee in October to spend on a mailer to members in the ...

This was due to wildfire expenses, climate policies, and utility operating costs. Families pay that premium every month. Businesses pay it and recover what they can from customers. An environmental ...

In a now-viral recording of a campaign speech in Texas, the president promoted his oft-touted bribe of gifting Americans $5,000 checks if his party wins the midterms. He then admitted that such an ...

When Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968, the news brought back the surreal shock I had felt less than five years earlier when President John F.

LA WATCHDOG - The Mayor released her Fiscal Year 2027-28 Proposed Budget Letter to the Managers of all the General Fund Departments where she outlined her goals for the upcoming budget. This budget ...

Preventing mosquito bites deserves a place in those preparations, too. California’s October 30, 2026, surveillance bulletin reported 502 human cases of West Nile virus disease across 24 counties, ...

Written by Richard Lee Abrams. THE VIEW FROM HERE - On Monday, October 26, 2026, the DSA’s National Political Committee issued an ultimatum to Nithya Raman that she had to accept the anti-Semitic BDS ...

Democracies, authoritarian regimes, and everything in between perpetrate or permit crimes against humanity, genocide, ethnic cleansing, persecution of minorities, online violence, and sexual violence ...