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Walters: Los Angeles and Bay Area voters to decide whether to hike already high sales taxes
7+ hour, 57+ min ago (534+ words) This year California voters will choose a new governor, fill other statewide offices, elect 100 state legislators and 52 members of Congress and weigh an array of knotty ballot measures. Meanwhile, officials in the state's largest urban centers, Los Angeles County and…...
Calling for ‘housing for all’ and free buses, progressive Rae Huang enters Los Angeles mayor’s race
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1059+ words) Housing advocate Rae Huang's announcement that she will run for mayor of Los Angeles injected a progressive voice into what had been shaping up as a matchup between Mayor Karen Bass and former LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner. Huang, deputy director…...
Investigators served search warrants after explosion that killed 3 Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (289+ words) Investigators served a search warrant on Monday morning, July 21, in Marina del Rey in connection to an explosion that killed three deputies at a Sheriff's Department facility on Friday, July 18, authorities said. The warrant was served on the 13900 block of…...
Nearly 2,800 undocumented immigrants have been detained in Los Angeles area since early June, DHS says
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (381+ words) Nearly 2,800 people have been detained in the Los Angeles area since immigration raids intensified in early June, federal officials said. Federal immigration officers have detained 2,792 undocumented immigrants in the Los Angeles area since June, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland…...
U.S. citizen released on bond after being detained by ICE agents on her way to work in downtown Los Angeles
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (354+ words) A U.S. citizen who was arrested by immigration agents on her way to work earlier this week was released on bond Thursday, June 26, at a federal courthouse in Los Angeles. Andrea Velez's sister and mom had dropped the marketing designer off…...