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Currently Super PACs can essentially flood the debate with speech, which is anonymous. The moral of the story, there is more than enough money to go around, it is just spent in campaigns.
View overlooking the San Fernando Valley
A redistricting fight is brewing on the local level of Los Angeles.
Looking through the gate at the former site of Occupy L.A. | Photo by Jason Rosencrantz
An inside look at the trial of an arrested Occupy L.A. protestor.
Annual roundups have a common theme - it's always "the worst of times and the best of times." And that certainly is true of downtown at the end of 2011…
LAPD officers in hazmat suits prepare to clean the park in front of City Hall after the raid on November 30, 2011 | Photo by Michal Czerwonka/Getty Images
The creation of a micro city on the lawn outside of City Hall will cost the city.
Too many of the dozen or so surveillance cameras on downtown streets are failing to deter crime.
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A big picture look at the region with stories about California's first flu death of the season, traffic on the 101 and thousands wrongly jailed in L.A. County.
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Hold onto your hats voters, candidates and observers, December 30th kicks the official start of the new election in California.
The Occupy L.A. campsite at City Hall
The protest known as Occupy L.A. will cost our budget-strapped city.
More than $600,000 was spent by billboard lobbyists in 2011. It's a sign of the times.The humorist Ogden Nash famously rhymed I think I shall never see, /…
At Jordan Downs, a project of HACLA | Photo via HACLA
This week brings yet another -- in a seemingly endless series of examples -- of a public official behaving badly.
Apparently, a plague of institutional ignorance is sweeping though the city's troubled bureaucracies. Recent cases in point...
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