If you're looking for silver linings, there are more than a few in California. (See above photo.) Compassion and progress prevailed at the polls when it came to
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Los Angeles voters have passed a pair of progressive ballot measures ? one to fight homelessness, the other to expand its public transit network.L.A. County's Me
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At 8 p.m. the Associated Press called the race for California's open U.S. Senate seat for Attorney General Kamala Harris. It wasn't a huge surprise.Harris le
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So you went to your polling place, nervous, excited. You had your cheat sheet in one hand, your Starbucks in the other. Even waiting in line was a veritable pleasure
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A gunman and one man were killed and two women injured in a shooting near an Azusa polling place today, authorities said.Two polling places near the attack, those at
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The other night, friends directed Maria Santillan-Beas, who's running for a seat on the Central Basin Municipal Water District board, to?an alarming sight: misog
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With one of the most controversial elections in history upon us, Americans everywhere are preparing to cast their votes ? and drink heavily ? on Nov. 8. Remember, yo
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The debate over Los Angeles' housing crisis has two distinct sides. Build Better L.A., an initiative represented by labor, developers and some renters, argues th
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When outsiders think of L.A., one of the first things that pops into their mind is Hollywood with its glitz and glamour. For those of us who have actually walked dow
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Most big campaign spenders are billionaires, corporations, political action committees or unions. Think George Soros, the Koch brothers, the NRA. But the biggest L.A
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Katy Perry's Rock the Vote video offers yet another?strategy for encouraging engagement in democracy: prurient interest. She tries to vote naked and ends up being a
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The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating three incidents of vandalism at art galleries in Boyle Heights as possible hate crimes. In at least one instance,
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