How Los Angeles's so-called mansion tax hurts renters
September 16, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: The problem with the so-called mansion tax implemented by Measure…
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'Grab a rake, get dirty and then you'll be protecting the earth'
In 2022, I was nominated by Sheila Kuehl to serve on the first ever LA County Youth Climate Commission. While…
How can we avoid drowning in garbage?
Edward Humes thinks a lot about trash and how we should deal with it. “Garbology,” the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s book about…
My city became environmentally conscious and so did I.
Growing up, I realized that children are a product of their environment, so let me tell you a little about…
Column: In MacArthur Park, the lights are out and residents are tired of empty promises
Andrew Wolff stood in the darkness, looking down Alvarado Street and taking a visual inventory of the broken streetlights on…
Compton businesses say they lost thousands of dollars from Kendrick Lamar video shoot
Saturdays are typically busy days at Alma's Place, a Southern food restaurant in Compton across from the city's courthouse. But…
Pillows and blankets can be signs of illegal camping in Santa Monica
A closely divided Santa Monica City Council voted this week to remove a section of its anti-camping ordinance that allowed…
Former top Los Angeles city prosecutor indicted by state bar over DWP billing scandal
The State Bar of California filed disciplinary charges Thursday against a former high-ranking official in the Los Angeles city attorney's…
Trump says he will withhold aid to fight California wildfires
Former President Trump painted a dystopian picture of California as a crime-ridden city with water shortages and flooded with immigrants…
Trump says Rancho Palos Verdes golf club is 'very solid' despite landslide
Standing on his golf course less than a mile from the Rancho Palos Verdes mudslide zone, where hundreds of homes…