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Advocates are rightly pushing L.A. leaders to allow affordable apartments and townhomes on single-family-zoned properties near transit and major corridors in affluent areas.
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From the top of the ticket to local ballot measures, California voters this year are grappling with major decisions that will shape their lives and communities for years to come.
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I tracked the content in banned books for PEN America. Censors don’t like sex (even if it’s only in the eye of the beholder), queer characters, teenage swearing, social issues and animals that speak English.
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Stud Country, a Los Angeles-based queer country western line dancing event, was created to preserve Los Angeles’ little known 50-plus-year queer line dancing tradition.
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On Friday, North Carolina executed Freddie Owens, even after serious doubts about his guilt emerged. When we kill the conceivably innocent, we become a mockery of ourselves and our supposed allegiance to justice.
Her owner told police that Miss Sassy had been abducted by Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, sparking false pet-eating rumors that were amplified by Donald Trump and JD Vance. In fact, the cat was just chilling in the basement.
Requiring two-thirds support to pass local taxes for parks, housing, transportation and other public investments is undemocratic. Proposition 5 would lower the threshold to pass a local bond measure to a more reasonable 55%.
