Students gathered at Diddy Riese on May 26 for a meet and greet with Los Angeles mayoral candidate and City Councilmember Nithya Raman. Bruin Democrats, who endorsed Raman earlier in May, hosted the event. Read more...
Los Angeles
Crime, Los Angeles, News
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June 2, 10:07 am
LA County sheriff race features 8 candidates, differing visions for LASD
Eight candidates – including an incumbent and his predecessor – are running to lead the country’s largest sheriff department in the June 2 primary election. The candidates, all current or former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, are running on differing approaches to homelessness, immigration enforcement and how to manage the department’s billion-dollar budget. Read more...
California, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council, News, Transportation
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May 31, 11:46 pm
Los Angeles mayoral contenders offer competing visions for city’s future
Incumbent Karen Bass and 13 challengers are running for Los Angeles mayor. Voters will choose the top two candidates in the June 2 primary election to advance to a November runoff, unless a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the primary and automatically wins the office. Read more...
California, Los Angeles, National, News
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May 27, 10:58 pm
LA ballot measures could increase taxes on billionaires, hotels, sales
This post was updated May 31 at 8:36 p.m. Four measures seeking to raise taxes will appear on Los Angeles’s June 2 ballot. The measures, if passed, would subsidize LA County’s public health system amid federal funding cuts and fill in tax gaps for unlicensed cannabis businesses and online travel companies. Read more...
A Closer Look, Campus, Los Angeles, News
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May 22, 4:51 pm
UCLA historians preserve documents, photos in ‘Power from the Past’ online archive
UCLA historians launched a revamped digital labor history archive in April, preserving materials from movements led by Southern California unions. The Memory Work Research Initiative at UCLA – which the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment oversees – digitized documents, images and flyers on an online archive called Power from the Past. Read more...
Los Angeles, News
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May 19, 11:15 pm
LA County sheriff candidate seeks to reinstate ICE cooperation program
State legislation has prohibited California police agencies from participating in federal immigration enforcement operations since 2018 – but a Los Angeles County sheriff candidate wants to change that. Read more...
Los Angeles, News, Science & Health, Westwood
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May 18, 10:47 am
Typhus cases rise in LA, precautions recommended for students, community
This post was updated May 20 at 10:52 a.m. Flea borne typhus cases in Los Angeles County have reached an all-time high, according to an April report by LA County public health officials. Read more...