In 2001, Los Angeles voters approved a controversial retirement program that pays Los Angeles police and firefighters their salaries and pensions simultaneously at the end of their careers that was promised to be “cost neutral.” However, a study earlier last year found that more than 1,200 participants who entered the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) […]

Last month, the city of Los Angeles revealed that Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Los Angeles Police Department security detail has cost nearly $450,000 since 2015 as Garcetti visited other parts of the United States and foreign countries. The figures were revealed due to a lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times, which is seeking to determine […]

In 2004, voters passed the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63) to help counties pay for the treatment of the mentally ill by taxing high-income residents. The proposition has generated billions of dollars to the counties across the state, but much of it has remained unspent. According to the Los Angeles Times, $1.6 billion was […]

An investigation by the state attorney general’s office claims that a loan company engaged in illegal debt collection practices, which will lead to almost 35,000 former Corinthian College students in California to  have the remainder of their private loan balances forgiven and some may receive payment refunds. Last month, state Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra claimed […]

Last month, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce named its first female chief executive officer and president in the organization’s 130 year history. Maria Salinas, a financial consultant, will replace longtime CEO & President Gary L. Toebben. Salinas, 52, will take over as head of the chamber in August. In a statement, Chairman of […]

Here is a touching story by Steve Lopez from the Los Angeles Times about a woman named Juana Jauregui who runs a daycare center at her East Los Angeles home and her dedication to children. Most of the kids who go to Jauregui’s daycare speak Spanish at home, but she speaks and reads English to […]

California’s relatively new system for pre-registering teens to vote seems to be doing very well. In the first months of the system’s existence, there were 88,700 teenagers that pre-registered. The online system lets 16 and 17 year olds pre-register to vote and they will automatically be registered to vote on their 18th birthday as long […]

Congressman Tom McClintock held his second town hall last night, with over 500, in Northern California. As Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, notes: The last time Rep. Tom McClintock held a town hall meeting, earlier this month in the Sacramento suburbs, he left under police escort. His session Tuesday night in Mariposa, a small […]

According to Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times: Federal officials on Monday released details about an immigration sweep in Los Angeles and surrounding counties last week that resulted in the arrest of 161 people living in the country illegally. In response to the protests and panic in immigrant communities that erupted as word spread of U.S. Immigration […]

Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times, wrote that, “a chance meeting with the governor of Colorado has left California Senate leader Kevin de León  (D-Los Angeles) with concerns about an initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in this state, he said Wednesday.” “I’m not there yet,” De León told reporters when asked his position […]