Matt Stiles is a California correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who combines traditional reporting with computer programming, data analysis and data visualization to find and tell compelling stories about the state. He previously covered Los Angeles County, the nation’s largest local municipal government, after reporting on North and South Korea in Seoul for the newspaper’s foreign desk. Prior to joining The Times, Stiles wrote about national economics at the Wall Street Journal, served as data editor at NPR and was the founding news applications editor at the Texas Tribune. He lives in Los Angeles. Contact him confidentially using the Signal smartphone app: (202) 670-8742.
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L.A. County agrees to improve juvenile hall conditions after state finds insufficient safety and services and, in some cases, mistreatment of youths.
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Before being banned, Donald Trump used his Twitter account to attack California. Those missives were more frequent during the impeachment hearings.
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Hospitals in lower-income, densely populated and nonwhite communities face the greatest challenge in providing care, a Times data analysis finds.
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A city spokesman said officials contacted La Scala on Christmas Eve about the event to remind its management about the county’s restrictions.
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President tweets long-debunked video questioning legality of vote collection in L.A. County
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For the first time, a majority of L.A. County voters cast ballots by mail, relieving pressure at polling places on election day.
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Challenged mail-in ballots could play a deciding role in hotly contested states in the 2020 presidential election.
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A massive caravan of President Trump supporters paraded for 60 miles through Riverside County on Sunday, snarling traffic and upsetting some voters at a park where they gathered.
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With election day over two weeks away, more than 1 million Californians have returned mail-in ballots, dwarfing the number submitted at this point in 2016.
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L.A. County plans to send 5.6 million mail ballots to voters in early October while still offering in-person voting amid the pandemic.
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