LA County Politics

By Stephen Witt A local nonprofit with a county contract to help street food vendors get licensed is alleging the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) is slow-walking the permit process. But DPH officials deny the allegation—even as dozens of local working-class food cart entrepreneurs have waited months for their permits. The dispute […]

Mitchell pushes accountability framework on LASD deputy gangs Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell (D-Inglewood, Hawthorne, Gardena, Compton, Carson) is pushing the Board of Supervisors to require the Sheriff’s Department (LASD) to formally identify and publicly name deputy gangs, cliques, and secret subgroups within the department, without requiring criminal charges or convictions as a […]

By Stephen Witt Charles Hamilton spent his youth playing lead guitar in rock bands around Los Angeles. These days, he spends his time steering one of the city’s oldest civic institutions — and pairing veterans with service dogs on the side. Hamilton, a certified financial planner with Fortify Capital, a private wealth management group affiliated […]

Chu celebrates Eaton Fire survivors fed tax relief U.S. Rep. Judy Chu (D-Pasadena, Monterey Park, San Gabriel, Alhambra, west San Gabriel Valley) is celebrating the signing of a bipartisan federal law that excludes wildfire relief payments from federal taxable income, delivering tax relief she has pushed for since the Eaton Fire. The Doug LaMalfa Federal […]

Waters joins colleagues demanding fed probe into recent Black hangings U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Watts, Westchester, Playa del Rey, Gardena, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lomita, Torrance) is among dozens of House Democrats demanding a federal investigation into a string of hangings of Black people across the country, invoking the legacy of lynching in American history. Waters […]