Bad Candidates Threaten Criminal Justice Reform in California
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, voters face candidates who promised criminal justice reforms but whose records have been disappointing.
In Los Angeles and San Francisco, voters face candidates who promised criminal justice reforms but whose records have been disappointing.
Now that the pandemic is fading and much of the available rent relief has been spent, L.A.'s eviction moratorium seems like pure regulatory inertia.
San Francisco and Los Angeles insist in suit that likely tens of millions have been illegitimately squeezed from small businesses by ADA plaintiffs without proper legal standing.
Preservationists hope to make the one-time home of Loren Miller a historic landmark. That it would make it nearly impossible to redevelop the $1.4 million two-bedroom home.
Despite apportioning over $1 billion for homeless housing, cost overruns and sluggish pacing threaten to jeopardize the city project.
Meanwhile, Virginia and Washington, D.C., are in a bidding war to decide which taxpayers will have the chance to pay for the Washington Commanders' new stadium. It shouldn't be this way.
But not so fast, Angelenos. No return to normal for you.
Los Angeles Libertarians to start gathering signatures to overturn the four-month-old ordinance.
If California politicians think the mask mandate is stupid, they should lead the charge to get rid of it.
The students' negative COVID tests weren't good enough for school administrators.
School choice is the best alternative for parents who are reasonably frustrated with this insanity.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
Businesses that give customers condiments without them first asking for them could receive fines totaling $300.
The fines for failure fall not on the unvaccinated, but the people serving them.
Both Los Angeles and San Francisco struggle with restrictive land use regulations that raise the costs and completion times of housing projects. That same red tape is now hobbling projects aimed at helping alleviate homelessness.
After San Francisco approved a similar ban, teen smoking rates increased.
Los Angeles temporarily eased parking requirements during the pandemic, offering a glimpse of how much a less restrictive zoning code improves urban life.
"It’s OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables," says Cecily Myart-Cruz. "They learned resilience."
Eighteen months into the pandemic, news outlets are still selling sensationalism and burying context
Los Angeles County is largely vaccinated. This is a punitive, authoritarian performance.
Requiring inoculated people to wear masks does not seem like a sensible or effective response, and it could deter vaccination.
Federal Judge David O. Carter says Los Angeles' “inaction" is "so egregious, and the state so nonfunctional" that it's likely "in violation of the Equal Protection Clause."
Cruel NIMBYism hides in call for historic preservation.
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
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How Axl Rose reflected a country desperate but unwilling to move on from a worn-out postwar consensus on national identity, gender roles, and global hegemony.
For months, the owners of Tin Horn Flats have refused to comply with restrictions on their business.
L.A. teachers win $500 childcare concession, though New York union still holding firm on anti-scientific 2-case rule.
Freezing rents at existing affordable housing will eliminate developers' incentive to build more of it.
The plan will shift $25 million away from school police and into support services for black students.
Some progressives are for criminal justice reform only when it's convenient.
Restaurant owners speak out about the "crippling" order, which will last at least three weeks.
By arbitrarily foreclosing relatively safe social and recreational options, politicians encourage defiance, resentment, and riskier substitutes.
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Tensions are high over the weekend shooting of two deputies.
Public health authorities are cracking down on a holiday activity where the age group least at risk of COVID-19 walks around outside wearing masks.
Abolishing fares could lead to even more federal aid for L.A. Metro, which has already received a $861.9 million bailout this year.
David Lacey faces three misdemeanor assault charges that hinge on whether he reasonably believed he and his wife were in danger.
Mayor Eric Garcetti's plan to shut off utility service to violators of bans on private gatherings poses grave civil liberties and due process concerns.