For six decades, the Silver Platter near MacArthur Park has been a refuge. But at a time when LGBTQIA+ people and Latinos are being terrorized, City Hall is allowing a developer to demolish the bar.
Sold as California's response to mid-decade redistricting in Texas, Proposition 50 doesn't actually include triggering language based on what any other state does.
Employees of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority have already had a rough year of cuts. Now, the county's refusal to hire us to new jobs means homelessness workers could soon become homeless.
Golden State's co-founders talk with a former L.A. Times colleague about the newspaper owner's ethically questionable meddling, the failings of billionaire- and corporate-owned media and the future of independent journalism in California.
The long implementation period belies the urgency of the crisis. By the time California's ban on dangerous ultra-processed takes full effect, today's school kids may have school-aged kids of their own.
The former speaker's retirement from Congress marks the end of a historic era of political power held by Bay Area Democrats and the rise of SoCal's influence.
Austin Beutner, a former L.A. Unified superintendent, says City Hall has come up woefully short on wildfires, homelessness, housing and affordability.
Sometimes it seems the election season in California
Gain power, give it away
In the Sacramento Bee, Robin Epley has perhaps the most triumphalist of the immediate post-Prop. 50 commentaries I could find, but I wouldn’t
The happiest place in Los Angeles on election night may have been the democratic socialist party in Highland Park — and it was about so much more than Prop. 50'
As a journalist and parent, I've had a front-row seat to the “complexification” of American healthcare, which demoralizes and depletes users. We have to fix it - or
Los Angeles put off convention center upgrades for so long that they became extremely expensive. Will the city get more than just a nice 2028 Olympics venue?
Jon Regardie is
The Washington Post editorial board's recent punditry on California veers into lazy cheap shots.
California has been getting a lot of attention recently from the ideologically reinvented Washington
