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FILE - This June 19, 2017 file photo shows a person working on a laptop in North Andover, Mass. Many now are working and studying from home to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, one that's testing how productive people can be in a pandemic. It's also challenging the capacity of the internet, home Wi-Fi systems and video-chat services amid unprecedented demand. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

California’s net neutrality law is upheld, a blow to telecoms

A federal appeals court has upheld California’s net neutrality law, rejecting an attempt by telecommunications industry groups to prevent the state from enforcing it.
LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 07: Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Joe Buscaino held a press conference on the Venice Boardwalk to announce his plans for a Safer Los Angeles to address the homelessness crisis in the city of LA. Venice Boardwalk on Monday, June 7, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times).

Buscaino: Dock L.A. leaders’ salaries if sufficient progress isn’t made on homelessness

ME.Hart.1130.RG -- Gary K. Hart watches California Governor-elect Gray Davis conduct a press conference announcing him as the State's education secretary, Monday, November 30, 1998 at the LA Library. Photo/Art by:Robert Gauthier

Gary K. Hart, charter school architect and former California education secretary, dies at 78

FILE - A person passes the office of the California Employment Development Department in Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 18, 2020 The department suspended about 345,000 disability claims associated with 27,000 doctors because of fraud concerns. On Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, state officials said 98% of those 27,000 medical providers were likely fraudulent. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

California says most halted disability claims are fraudulent

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 24: State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) prepares to deliver a announce a bill that add's COVID-19 vaccines to California's list of required inoculations for attending K-12 schools at Arleta High School on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. This initiative would override Gov. Gavin Newsom's scaled back mandate from last year . (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)

Column: California is headed for another bruising vaccine fight. Newsom should embrace a school mandate

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ARLETA, CA - NOVEMBER 08: Harnoorvir Singh Jabbal (cq), 11, gets the COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Chelsea Meyer at Arleta High School on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. Following the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, Los Angeles Unified will offer voluntary vaccine access to students. The district highly encourages the vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, however, it will not be part of Los Angeles Unified's current student vaccine requirement. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

California plan to require student vaccination sparks intense debate. Here’s what we know

Chatsworth, CA, Saturday, February 27, 2021 - Diego Almendor has his temperature read by Los Toros Mexican restaurant owner Nicolas Montano as he arrives begins his shift. The restaurant has been closed for indoor dining since March, due to COVID-19. It is now open for takeout and outdoor dining. Montano says a measure pending in the CA legislature to require businesses to offer employees 2 weeks of mandatory paid sick leave for COVID-19 related absences would be devastating to small businesses. He is avoiding having to pay sick leave by taking the temperature of all his workers before every shift. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

COVID-19 sick pay in California would return under deal between Newsom, lawmakers

Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) discusses legislation during floor debate at the state Capitol on Aug. 29, 2019.

Column: No debate on skyrocketing cost of California single-payer bill? So much for good government

A Covid-19 vaccine site at Children's Hospital Arcadia Speciality Care Center

All California schoolchildren must be vaccinated against COVID-19 under new bill

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Councilman Mike Bonin attends the grand opening ceremony at Palisades Village on September 22, 2018 in Pacific Palisades.

Westside Councilman Mike Bonin says he won’t seek reelection

Wednesday’s announcement upends the June 7 election campaign to represent Bonin’s district, which takes in much of the Westside.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - SEPTEMBER 23: An AllenCo Energy drill site near USC on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles moves to end oil drilling in the city

FILE - This March 28, 2019 photo shows cigarette butts in an ashtray in New York. On Tuesday, March 9, 2021. Lung cancer is the nation’s top cancer killer, causing more than 135,000 deaths each year. Smoking is the chief cause and quitting the best protection. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

No ifs, ands or butts: California bill would ban single-use smoking products like cigarette filters

FALLBROOK, CA—MAY 1, 2021—Tammy Martinez has had to learn to live without one of her legs after a doctor failed to notice he'd cut off circulation to her leg during an operation, causing the need to amputate her left leg. "He totally destroyed my life," she said. The spinal surgeon who operated on Tammy Martinez. is still practicing despite being indicted by the feds for $38 million in fraudulent billing of the state workers' comp fund. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Editorial: California must do more to get bad doctors out of the profession

Rick Caruso at a press conference

Rick Caruso changes registration to Democrat as he weighs a run for L.A. mayor

Anti-vaccination forces gear up for fight over California vaccine legislation

Nicholas Goldberg: Why do murderers have to show “remorse” to be granted parole?

Does L.A. want a billionaire mayor? Rick Caruso is trying to find out

Column: Violent crime fuels second Gascón recall try, but can D.A. be blamed?

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VAN NUYS-CA-JANUARY 21, 2022: Mayoral candidate Mel Wilson takes a hammer to a piggy bank during a rally outside DWP in Van Nuys surrounded by supporters on Friday, January 21, 2022. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

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L.A. mayoral candidate Mel Wilson leads protest over DWP rates and billing scandal

L.A. mayoral candidate Mel Wilson held a protest at a DWP building in Van Nuys to demand that the utility lower water and power rates.

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