🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 10: New York's Zohran is Big in LA thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep... This week, LA's anti-Olympics movement abandoned by one-time close ally, Mamdani inspires local politicos, Working Families Party in LA, and the City Controller advertises leaving the Dems.

LA's progressive pols look to push local 'power structure' leftward, amid celebrations of New York's Zohran @thelareporter.bsky.social thelareporter.la/p/la-s-progr...

I just spoke to Gina Fields, who told me when she threw on some sweats to go vote at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall in the Proposition 50 special election tonight, she thought she'd be done in 15 minutes. But she ended up waiting an hour and a half to get to the polling booth!

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 9: LA residents brace for federal shutdown 'hammer' This week, what LA residents should know about food aid, the controller's critique of LAPD's mental health response, and The LA Reporter comes to the Really Really Free Market thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

New LA Pod episode is here! @awalkerinla.bsky.social @mikebonin.bsky.social guest co-host @reporterliz.bsky.social of @thelareporter.bsky.social discuss a secretive $2 million payout to LA County’s CEO, who claims she suffered “reputational harm” from Measure G... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I'm on this week's episode of LA Podcast! LA Podcast - To Live and DEI in LA www.thinkforward.la/la-podcast-t...

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 8: 'They're entitled to something better' This week, research group that helped get LA's $15 minimum wage closes, LA Fed backing caps to rent hikes, and bigger fine sought for candidate's ethics violation. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

So here is the City Attorney's funding request that includes paying Best Best & Krieger as outside counsel in the LA Press Club/Status Coup case against the city. It asks for a three-year contract, and an initial $250,000 amount to help handle that case. cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 7: A week of drama-rama between LA city leaders This week, that includes the LA City Council calling out the City Attorney, and a councilwoman agitating for charter reform commissioners to reveal side-convos. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

Now that City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto's attempt to lift the injunction against LAPD officers attacking press has been thwarted -- ahead of the No Kings protest -- here's a breakdown of what the injunction does (from Issue 3 of @the_lareporter). thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

LA Mayor Karen Bass and the CAO are asking the city's general managers to propose cuts from each department amounting to 5%, for the next fiscal year, 2026-2027. The instructions were delivered as part of a 66-page budget instruction memo dated Oct. 6.

The city of LA is trying to remove an injunction aimed at preventing the LAPD from attacking journalists, just before the No Kings protest this weekend, in a motion filed yesterday.

Mountain View encampment residents confronted a progressive council member's staffer on why he ordered a sweep that drew heavy police presence, why there wasn't shelter. Another told @thelareporter.bsky.social the sweep felt like a burglary. She said it was "heartbreaking, for no reason."

Residents of the encampment, the Mountain View community, who were swept by Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez have signed a letter to the office demanding she end sweeps and "push back against 41.18," the anti-camping law that many were cited with.

Wrote about it in the first issue of @thelareporter.bsky.social newsletter. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’ thelareporter.la/p/lapd-turns...

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 6: Introducing interviews at your local doughnut shop This week, The Doughnut Shop Interviews debuts, Austin Beutner's social media lets cat out of bag, progressive council office orders CARE+ that draws big LAPD presence thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

What appears to be happening is there have been rumors and now this seems to help confirm them. Businessman Austin Beutner, also a former LAUSD superintendent and one time LA Times publisher, might be throwing his hat into the ring to challenge LA Mayor Karen Bass.

Hmm? What's happening here?

This has been tailor made for me!! Such a great kick-off to a wonderful series!

The LA Reporter this week is debuting The Doughnut Shop Interviews series in which we sit down with a major figure in local politics and regulars at a neighborhood doughnut shop. The first chat is with Raymond Meza, chair a citizen panel helping to rewrite the LA city charter.

The Doughnut Shop Interviews: Chatting about the future of LA politics over French cruller and apple fritter thelareporter.la/p/the-doughn...

The LA Reporter, Issue 5: 'There's nothing we can really do' News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes twice-a-week encampment sweeps in West Los Angeles, and candidates in 'progressive' state race shying away from AIPAC thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

Here's hoping "the fifth or sixth time is the charm" when it comes to the LAPD respecting journalists' rights at protests. FAC's David Snyder talked to @thelareporter.bsky.social about the win for reporters in our case against LA. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

NEW: Candidates in 'progressive' state race shy away from AIPAC Sara Hernandez, who went to Israel with AIPAC, called on to return AIPAC-affiliated funds. Wendy Carrillo, who took funds from one of the same donors, gives to group feeding people in Gaza. thelareporter.la/p/candidates...

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Here's the signed document from Erroll Southers taking the oath of office dated yesterday, after many declined to comment on his appointment to the LAPD oversight panel, with some saying they didn't believe that it had happened. cityclerk.lacity.org/onlinedocs/2...

The LA Reporter, Issue 4: How to beat the mass extinction blues This week, there's the under-the-radar confirmation of a controversial LAPD commissioner, proposed cuts to the public defenders office, and a way to beat back the mass extinction blues. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

Blink and you might have missed it. Erroll Southers, a controversial appointment to the LAPD commission, was approved by the LA City Council today. But it was done in an unusual way -- it was allowed to run out the clock by the council failing to do anything by today's deadline to act on.

Bye bye city attorney? LA leaders want to drop the elected attorney, seek advice elsewhere Two councilmembers have now weighed in with the Charter Reform Commish to say they prefer to get legal advice from an appointed attorney. Story @thelareporter.bsky.social: thelareporter.la/p/la-city-le...

LA Councilman Hugo Soto-Martínez said he would end sweeps, when he campaigned for office. Now, activists say he broke his promise. Read more about that @thelareporter.bsky.social: thelareporter.la/p/la-city-co...

Also ... the results are in, and hats are in. Bye bye bareheaded birdie, so long! Hats off to ya! bsky.app/profile/thel...

Hello, Liz the reporter here! I want to thank folks for reading and joining me these past couple of weeks for this bumpy ride.

The LA Reporter, Issue 3: 'It's déjà vu all over again.' This week, a win for journalists attacked by LAPD while covering protests, and LA leaders telling the charter commission they don't want advice from an elected city attorney. thelareporter.la/p/the-la-rep...

LA city leaders say they want to drop the elected City Attorney, seek advice elsewhere thelareporter.la/p/la-city-le...

Required reading alert for LAPD officers sent to protests! This is the Sept. 12 notice summarizing journalists rights, signed by LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, that a judge told officers they must read. You can read the notice here: thelareporter.la/p/here-s-the...

I have heard some complaints that the bird is lacking a hat. So I'm doing a two-day poll to see if it needs a hat. Click the heart of the look you prefer, in the posts below.

New story @thelareporter.bsky.social: LA City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez went back on his word to end sweeps and repeal 41.18, a city law criminalizing homelessness, unhoused constituents and mutual aid groups say.

LA Councilman went back on promise to end sweeps, mutual aid groups and unhoused constituents say thelareporter.la/p/la-city-co...

The LA Reporter - Issue 2 This week's newsletter includes donors with ties to AIPAC giving to a state candidate, and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto sounding off on corruption, charter reform. thelareporter.beehiiv.com/p/the-la-rep...

Meanwhile, the donors that responded to me said they were donating to Hernandez because of local issues, and their support of her is not tied to Israel.

Things got heated between two of the candidates vying for state Senator Maria Elena Durazo's seat. Maebe Pudlo calls on opponent Sara Hernandez to "adamantly reject" money from donors tied to AIPAC, but Hernandez says her campaign isn't AIPAC-funded.

State senate candidate took money from donors with ties to AIPAC thelareporter.beehiiv.com/p/state-sena...

Mayor Bass has now confirmed in a statement that she asked that SB 423, which would cap the Measure ULA "mansion tax," be continued so that it can be reintroduced in January. The tax has been a source of funding for affordable housing, and programs to protect tenants.

I've been hearing the author of the legislation might be pulling this bill. The United to House LA coalition also just sent out a press release saying the bills has been pulled and won't be reintroduced this session.

LA Mayor Karen Bass has signed a new executive directive today that speeds up the hiring process for LAPD proceed. She says it's because of the upcoming "major events" ie the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. mayor.lacity.gov/sites/g/file...

Howard Jarvis's president told the LA Times this was a "lame effort" to go after their ballot proposal. Former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg (who Mayor Bass tapped for this deal) hoped it would discourage business leaders from backing the initiative. www.latimes.com/california/s...

There's a provision in this new language -- targeting Measure ULA -- that says the proposed changes wouldn't go into effect if passed, as long as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. withdraws its "Local Taxpayer Protection Act" initiative.

Update on the Mayfair Hotel's broken elevators: - One elevator was being manually operated over the weekend, allowing one resident to make a dental appointment. - Townhall on Monday, where residents sought answers, timeljne for elevators getting fixed. thelareporter.beehiiv.com/p/mayfair-ho...