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Immigrants are California’s lifeblood. With the mass deportation on the horizon, it’s more important than ever to support immigrants and recognize the vital role they play in our society.
Los Angeles’ city shelters are overwhelmed and killing too many cats and dogs, but there are workable alternatives.
Southern California air quality officials have again failed to adopt rules to clean pollution at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach, backing down in the face of opposition from organized labor and business interests.
If L.A. officials believe in homeless housing, they will support the Venice Dell project.
The city’s rent control law needs to do more to prevent price shocks for tenants during periods of high inflation while ensuring landlords can recoup costs.
The city burned down the homes of mostly Black and Latino residents of Section 14 several decades ago. It’s finally paying for some of what they lost.
Among the blessings we count: Los Angeles city and county reforms, a marine sanctuary off the California coast, money to alleviate homelessness and the Dodgers.
California lawmakers and the City Council are undoing counterproductive policies requiring developers to widen roads in front of their projects.
The COP29 climate summit ending Friday was dispiriting in many respects, as is the broader picture. But there’s hope and good reason to persist in this effort.
In rejecting Proposition 6, voters kept a constitutional provision outlawing slavery except “to punish crime.” Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers still have options.