She rides three buses from her Panorama City home to her job as a caregiver for an 83-year-old Sherman Oaks woman with dementia, and lately she’s been worrying about getting …
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There will soon be a ‘mayor of L.A. County.’ How much power should come with the job?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNewsletter You’re reading the L.A. on the Record newsletter Sign up to make sense of the often unexplained world of L.A. politics. Enter email address Sign Me Up You may …
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At San Quentin, district attorneys and inmates agree on prison reform
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesOn a recent morning inside San Quentin prison, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman and more than a dozen other prosecutors crowded into a high-ceilinged meeting hall surrounded by …
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PBS sues Trump White House over executive order to cut funding
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPBS filed a federal lawsuit Friday asking a court to block the May 1 executive order by the Trump White House to cut off funding to public media, calling the …
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California contests Trump administration claim the state obstructs immigration law
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesSACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office sent a letter on Friday requesting that the Trump administration remove California from its list of sanctuary jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law. …
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Trump may end legal parole given to 532,000 migrants from four countries
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesWASHINGTON — President Trump may seek to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who recently entered the United States under a two-year grant of parole, the Supreme Court decided Friday. Over two …
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She ran the L.A. animal shelters. Why couldn’t she fix the problems?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesStaycee Dains was about a month into her job overseeing the Los Angeles city animal shelters when an employee openly defied her. Dains asked the employee to clean a kennel. …
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FCC commissioner sounds alarms about free speech ‘chilling effect’ under Trump
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFederal Communications Commissioner Anna M. Gomez traveled to Los Angeles this week to sound an alarm that attacks on the media by President Trump and his lieutenants could fray the …
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California appeals Huntington Beach victory on voter ID laws
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAfter losing last month in Orange County Superior Court, the state of California is asking a state appellate court to overturn a Huntington Beach measure that could require voters to …
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Trump trade strategy roiled by court blocking global tariffs
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump’s tariff strategy has been thrown into turmoil after a U.S. court issued a rare rebuke blocking many of the import taxes he has threatened and imposed on other …