Downtown L.A.’s infamous graffiti towers are finally getting cleaned up
Your morning catch up: L.A.'s graffiti towers, where to find the cheapest gas in L.A.…
Author: Jessica Patel
They hoped to fix their immigration status. They got scammed instead
Immigration law scams surged in the past year and a half, since the Trump administration’s…
Proposition 36 created ‘treatment-mandated felonies.’ What it really created is a complicated mess
In 2024, tough-on-crime types pushed Proposition 36 into law by promising that more incarceration would…
The World Cup was an L.A. public transit success. The Olympics will be a much bigger test
Public transit during the World Cup was considered a success in Los Angeles. Metro and…
The banality of evil in the Border Patrol’s secret anti-immigrant slur
For at least half a century, Border Patrol workers have used the onomatopoeic word "tonk,"…
California’s proposed billionaire tax exposes rifts among labor unions
The tax, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition 40, drew opposition from unions…