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For more than two centuries Americans have used the Electoral College to pick presidents. However, there is now (yet another) move afoot to change that.
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Just when you thought we were almost done talking about redistricting, it's time to refuel and prepare for another round of discussions.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk I Ed Fuentes
A city task force assembled to seek safe alternatives for the popular Downtown Art Walk have passed down its first mandate and will be in effect tonight.
The Los Angeles City Council and the County Board of Supervisors both held meetings on Tuesday, with outcomes that could be described as game changing.
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Helicopter noise in Los Angeles is now in the national spotlight.
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The Assembly Rules Committees' failure to release current budget and spending information raises broader questions about the public's right to information concerning their elected officials.
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Forever young. Los Angeles still sells itself to the world with that increasingly ironic branding. Yet for most of the 20th century, it was true. Because…
The current deal to bring a football stadium to downtown L.A. is better than the bad one AEG asked the city council to accept.
A bicycle attached to a mobile billboard on Cahuenga Boulevard on the Cahuenga Pass | Photo by Zach Behrens/KCET
Mobile billboard owners have found creative solutions to a law banning their signs.
Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk at Spring and 4th on July 2010 I Ed Fuentes
Following the death of an infant, the city has formed a committee to look and propose solutions for the Downtown Art Walk, where crowds have grown to 30,000.
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After committing ethical violations, L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa raised private funds to cover the fines.
The Congressional redistricting map | Image via 2011 Citizens Redistricting Commission Visualizations GIS at Berkeley
The last versions of the first ever California legislative district lines drawn by an independent redistricting commission have finally arrived. Goodbye gerrymandering, hello fair legislative districts?
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