Angelenos already voted for a county Ethics Commission and funding for alternatives to incarceration. But significant drafting and filing blunders could undo those ballot measures without Measure E's clean-up crew.
Tucked inside Measure EE is a provision slashing the number of required weekly council meetings from three to one, reducing the opportunities for the public to address their elected representatives.
Karen Bass and Nithya Raman talk a lot about high prices and steep rent, but neither has embraced the changes championed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The immunology bond measure could steer more than $4 billion to its backer's own institute, which isn't even open yet. That's just one problem with it.
It’s an underhanded attempt to curtail the state's popular mail-in ballot system that the president hates, based on the lie that hordes of undocumented immigrants are regularly casting votes.
I spent about 20 years writing newspaper election endorsements – for the Los Angeles Daily News, the Sacramento Bee and, most recently, the Los Angeles Times.
It was time-consuming but
