A new and expanding issue is emerging for renters throughout the greater Los Angeles area and it’s definitely not good news. Tenants face losing crucial parking spots as landlords construct Accessory ...

ELECTION 2026 - Los Angeles has been shaken by a powerful corporation pouring money into Mayor Karen Bass’s campaign in an apparent bid to secure pay-to-play influence. Airbnb is a major multinational ...

Written by Patrick Range McDonald. HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT - Los Angeles politicians sure don’t make it easy for nonprofits that provide permanent, low-income housing at single-room occupancy ...

WESTSIDE - The race for City Attorney remains an electoral wild card of sorts as limited polling suggests no clear frontrunner between the Progressive Marissa Roy and veteran prosecutor, John McKinney ...

GELFAND’S WORLD - It’s not surprising that a president who does his best to wreck the economy is going to encounter electoral blowback – like losing control of the House of Representatives and ...

THE BOTTOM LINE - Nithya Raman wants Los Angeles voters to trust her with one of the most difficult jobs in America. Before voters give her the keys to City Hall, however, she should answer a much ...

PLANNING WATCH - In Los Angeles there are so many vacant rental units that in my mid-Wilshire neighborhood there is about one vacancy per block. As for unposted vacancies, my guess is there are a lot, ...

This is the question being posed by West Hollywood Councilmember John Erickson in a recent mailer when both are clearly registered Democrats and have deep roots within the party's philosophy, ...

PLANNING WATCH - Before they became colored parcels on a City Planning map, they were neighborhoods. They were people’s homes. Homes that ordinary middle-class families worked a lifetime to afford.

CAPITAL AND MAIN - Behind every door was a chance to make money. It was 2020, and Matt DeBoth and Angel Escobar were canvassing Koreatown, Highland Park and other gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhoods ...

Los Angeles voters rejected George Gascón's progressive prosecution experiment in 2024. Now, a City Attorney candidate is advancing many of the same ideological priorities. Has Los Angeles learned ...

A STUDENT'S VIEW - California tells students like me that we are the future. Then it sends us into that future unable to read or do math at the level the state itself says we should. The latest test ...