What a good time it is to be a public employee in Los Angeles. Weeks after the City Council approved pay raises of up to 22 percent for DWP employees, the Los Ange
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At 5 foot 3 inches tall, Keta Rush is a compact force of nature in the wrestling ring. When she steps onto the mat, she throws on her signature gold cape and instan
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On a warm weekday afternoon in late June, a couple of young radicals with handmade protest signs were resting in the shade of the kiosk in Mariachi Plaza. They were
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When 88-year-old Ludmila Pasternak visits her husband's grave at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, she sits on a bench, smoking a cigarette and clutching a bouquet of rose
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Imagine a future in which California secedes from the United States after a fascist president orders all immigrants to leave. The new comic book Calexit, expected to
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As every schoolchild knows, Los Angeles has a long history of streetcar service, dating all the way back to the early 2000s* when a young entrepreneur named Rick Car
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Since?the?Metropolitan Transportation Authority?began construction on the Crenshaw Line in January 2014, the highest rate of increase in home values citywide has oc
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It was 2013, and 18-year-old Marbella Munoz had been in foster care a long time. With each new family placement, she had to switch schools, and in September of that
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Midsummer ? is it midsummer already? ? is drinking season in Southern California, particularly if you take your poison with ice and lime.Cops seem to be on particula
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The Trump administration says it plans to rescind an Obama-era program that allows?foreign entrepreneurs who launch startup companies in the United States to live he
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While Los Angeles looks to revise its police body-camera policy to allow for more transparency, a state assemblyman's bill that would force cops to simply releas
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A San Fernando Valley congressman who apparently?has?heard his left-leaning constituents loud and clear has officially made the move toward impeaching President Trum
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