LAX plan to go before city council LOS ANGELES “”mdash; Mayor James K. Hahn’s sweeping, nearly $10 billion modernization plan for Los Angeles International Airport goes before the city council this week. Read more...

Correction appended Thirty-five years after the founding of the Asian American Studies Center, faculty, staff and students will be celebrating this landmark anniversary and its recent approval as its own department during a ceremony Thursday. Read more...

City council closes meeting The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the Beverly Hills City Council violated California’s open-meeting law when it refused to allow three opponents of a proposed hotel to speak at an Aug. Read more...

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Proposition 63 would dramatically increase funding for mental health programs in California. But the measure is the wrong solution for a serious problem. The treatment and prevention of psychological illnesses is a crucial responsibility of government, but Proposition 63 would set inflexible requirements, selectively tax a few, and further limit the ability of the legislature to allocate the state’s money. Read more...

Proposition 59 will help protect the simple but important right to open government by amending the state constitution with current open record and meeting laws. California already requires most governmental meetings to be public and state records to be accessible, but the legislature could easily modify these laws at any time. Read more...

A concert in Los Angeles tonight will fund preventative measures against HIV infection by donating its proceeds to the UCLA AIDS Institute. The organization called “MUSICaids … life thru music” will be featuring its “Songs for a New Resolution” concert to support the UCLA AIDS Institute’s research. Read more...