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A local political gadfly, and possible future City Council candidate, launches campaign to cut city officials' pay--in half.
Our newly elected city attorney Carmen Trutanich prepares to take office, and he appears to have the enthusiastic support of local politics-watchers.
Los Angeles's system of Neighborhood Councils, often severe critics of our highly-paid City Council, managed to evade having their budgets cut by nearly 80 percent through loud citizen activism and complaints this month.
Local political watchers seem to agree: L.A.'s Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may have won his second term mere months ago, but it's probable that his political future is over.
Would local government be better if it were less local?
LA's civic duties didn't end with March's election; with no majority winner, the race for city attorney went into a runoff.
L.A. may be apolitical, but it's pretty big news for everyone when President Obama comes to town. What will his administration's current stimulus plans mean for Southern California?
Welcome to the latest KCET Local blog, "City of Angles." And no, that's not a typo. This blog will cover the local political scene and its many complicated happenings, cross-currents, and angles as they unfold.
Three clips from Val's interview with Waxman that didn't make it into the show.
For me, it's a day like any other--in some ways worse--but Day One of the Obama administration is a good day.
The day after Barack Obama's win, think tanks used the words "surge," "swept," and "broadly rejected" to describe Latino voting patterns in different parts of the country