Reason Wins 7 Southern California Journalism Awards
First-place finishes include an investigative piece on egregious misconduct in federal prison, a documentary on homelessness, best magazine columnist, and more.
First-place finishes include an investigative piece on egregious misconduct in federal prison, a documentary on homelessness, best magazine columnist, and more.
Proposed legislation mandates folic acid in masa flour, sparking fears among traditional tortilla makers about costs and cultural impact.
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Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
In data from over 200 cities, homicides are down a little over 19 percent when compared to a similar time frame in 2023.
City gives journalist photos. Journalist publishes photos. City…sues journalist?
Thanks to "squatters' rights" laws, evicting a squatter can be so expensive and cumbersome that some people simply walk away from their homes.
The freedom to protest is essential to the American project. It also does not give you carte blanche to violate other laws.
L.A., Portland, and other cities are spending millions to house homeless people in outdoor "safe sleeping" sites.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
He could save $98 million by dodging California's state income taxes with his unusual, eye-popping contract.
The regulation is part of a suite of new restrictions on hotels sought by the local hotel workers union.
“I couldn’t believe it was my baby,” Amanda Bews' mother said. "She looked like she was mummified."
Los Angeles voters will decide in March whether to force hotels to report empty rooms to the city and accept vouchers from homeless people.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
Carlos Pena's livelihood has been crippled. It remains to be seen if he'll have any right to compensation.
The wildly popular podcaster is still "politically homeless" but says leaving California and having a kid have improved her life immensely.
City Councilmember Curren Price is indicted for steering favors to affordable housing developers who were bribing his wife.
When the state won't shade you, buy a hat.
Today, the Lone Star state counts 90 homeless people per every 100,000 residents. In California, the problem is almost five times as bad.
Public sector unions squeeze final gains out of a district that's been bleeding students yet constructing expensive new buildings for two decades.
The former head of the NYPD and the LAPD talks about how bad leadership creates police brutality and why he's still against pot legalization.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
"I was born in Cuba, and it doesn't sound good when people are trying to achieve equal outcomes for everyone," said one parent.
The L.A. City Council saw a good thing happening and decided government wasn't involved enough.
Body camera footage shows precisely why some people don’t trust police to respond appropriately to nonviolent incidents.
Despite what you may have heard, many "recyclables" sent to recycling plants are never recycled at all.
The issue is the result of a districtwide policy of de facto grade inflation.
Landlords say that nearly three years of eviction moratoriums is forcing some property owners out of the rental business entirely.
Transit officials and transit-boosting politicians in D.C., L.A., and New York City are warming to the idea of being totally dependent on taxpayer subsidies.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
Voters gave a cold shoulder to candidates endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and Los Angeles County voters gave the heave-ho to Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
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Alex Villanueva was ousted after a single combative, troubled term. Voters also approved giving county leaders the power to remove future sheriffs.
Having a city council secretly dominated by people with racist views is troubling, but having an entire political system controlled by one special interest group is also scandalous.
A lack of transparency doesn't make politicians better people.
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Pardoning possession offenders is nice. Taking his boot off the necks of cannabis sellers would be even better.
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An emphasis on corruption and enforcement downplays the very real influence of regulation and taxes on California's booming black market.
In the Bay Area and in Los Angeles County, authorities are quickly learning there's little public will to follow their mandates.
New court documents show that the FBI planned for months to seize and forfeit property found inside safe deposit boxes in an L.A. raid under the pretext of doing an inventory.