and campaigned against new taxes for the rich. But he has also been willing to temporarily increase business taxes to balance the state's budget, something he's proposing to do again this year.
“At a time when Los Angeles homeowners are struggling to pay the high cost of living, including skyrocketing utility bills, this bond would sharply increase property taxes,” said Susan Shelley, the group’s vice president for communications. What makes supporting the bond toughe...
The Los Angeles County Charter, which was adopted in 1912, established the five-member Board of Supervisors at a time when the county's population hovered around 500,000. Now, with nearly 10 million residents living in the same area, each supervisor currently represents about ...
The slow-growth measure was defeated Tuesday by a 2-1 margin, according to preliminary results. It passed in only a handful of precincts. Even neighborhoods like Hollywood and Silver Lake, where the campaign was most visible, rejected the bid to restrict new development....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The future of California's first-of-its-kind stem cell research program is in the hands of voters, who will decide whether it deserves a $5.5 billion infusion of borrowed bond money to keep functioning.
Opponents celebrated via Zoom on Tuesday, cheering their David-versus-Goliath fight as results rolled in. The measure was leading in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties, but failing in other large Southern California counties. Ward Connerly, the African American businessman who led the 1996 camp...
People in Los Angeles, the US, have no idea of distance on the map: they measure distance by time, not miles. “How far away is the post office?” you ask. “Oh,” they answer, “it's about five minutes from here.” You don’t understand completely, “Yes, but how many miles ...
Close-up of vertical sign with logos for ridesharing companies Uber and Lyft, with wheels of a car in the background, indicating a location where rideshare pickups are available in downtown Los Angeles, California, October 24, 2018. (Photo by Smith C Expand SAN FRANCISCO - Drivers for app...
Nevada voters have passed a ballot measure to protect abortion rights, one of 10 abortion-related measures that were up for a vote in the U.S. A Nevada law from 1990 protects abortion until 24 weeks of pregnancy. Those protections can be reversed only b