Mayor Karen Bass, left, chats with Jawonna Smith before Smith was moved from a tent to a motel under the Inside Safe program. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Nearly half of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ record $1.3-billion homelessness budget for fiscal 2023-24 went unspent, an analysis by the city controller found. Controller Kenneth … Read more
Since the program began more than 40 years ago, Santa’s North Pole Post Office has delivered replies for more than 45 million letters. Santa is known to support unions, but will do his best to answer letters while respecting the Canada Post strike.Photo by Dragos Condrea /Getty Images Santa has supported unions since the Great … Read more
Students rally for a history teacher at Valley View High School in Moreno Valley who is on administrative leave after a profane rant. (OnScene.TV) Several Southern California teachers are facing disciplinary action after fervid anti-Trump outbursts made in the wake of the November election that rattled school communities and generated fierce debate over teachers’ rights … Read more
“RFK Jr. helped me out a lot,” says the creator of the 2020 anti-fluoride petition in Pointe Claire. West Island mayors believe Montreal’s consultation on water fluoridation involved a man they describe as a “far-right” extremist.Photo by Alain de Maximy /Maxal Tamor – Fotolia West Island mayors say that Montreal’s consultation on water fluoridation was … Read more
Mary Carmen Martinez at her Koreatown apartment complex. Martinez is part of Señoras for Housing, a group of tenants that is trying to bring a social housing model to their building. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Several years ago, investors bought the Koreatown fourplex where Mary Carmen Martinez had lived for nearly two decades … Read more
The Mountain fire was the third most destructive wildfire in a decade. These maps show why The Mountain fire, driven by powerful winds, razed 243 buildings and damaged dozens more in Camarillo and nearby communities in western Ventura County, according to data released by state fire officials. The tally places the blaze as the third … Read more
Then-President Trump gestures while greeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu upon his arrival at the South Portico of the White House in January 2020. ( Michael Reynolds / European Pressphoto Agency) During his first term as president, Donald Trump took a bold if controversial approach to the Middle East. He moved the U.S. Embassy in … Read more
President-elect Donald Trump with, left to right, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and Sen. Ted Cruz at a SpaceX test flight in Texas on Tuesday. (Brandon Bell / Associated Press) The speaker of the House, the man second in line to the presidency — Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana — had to photobomb the much-shared … Read more
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There’s plenty of evidence in recent memory to back up the conclusion that Congress seems allergic to most tough votes. And few topics are more politically combustible than illegal immigration. With that in mind, mark your calendars for early March. That’s when some 800,000 American residents — none of whom are citizens — lose their … Read more
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