David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the City-County bureau. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2007 and previously wrote on local government for the Claremont Courier, Pasadena Star-News, the Daily Breeze, the L.A. Weekly and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is a graduate of Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.
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A lawyer for Bass said the attack ad from the police officers’ union contains “false, misleading and defamatory” information about the candidate’s voting record.
Asked about the changes, an aide to Council President Nury Martinez said threats have been made to elected officials “at every level of government throughout the country.”
Enforcement of Los Angeles’ revised anti-camping law rolls out in slow and uneven steps.
In some ways, the evening was a retread of the last debate featuring the five candidates, with much of the criticism again trained on businessman Rick Caruso.
Matching funds “offer a way for grassroots candidates to have a viable shot.”
The settlement is among the first to come out of a slew of lawsuits over the LAPD’s response to weeks of volatile demonstrations.
The City Council signed off on the payout after being advised that “vitriol” in emails from city lawyers would undermine their case at trial.
While Feuer launched his “underdog” ad, mayoral candidate Ramit Varma announced he is putting an additional $2.5 million into his own mayoral bid.
Candidate Kenneth Mejia says his deleted tweets from 2020 are a “non-story.” As June 7 nears, his opponents are attacking him over his political messaging.