Who Will Succeed Adam Schiff?
Fifteen Candidates Are on the 30th Congressional District Ballot The winner will likely represent the district including West Hollywood for years, as it is an overwhelmingly safe blue stronghold...
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Adam Schiff & Steve Garvey
The frontrunner is using a GOP longshot to take out Democrats The most recent U.S. Senate race debate made clear just how important Republican candidate Steve Garvey is to Democratic frontrunner...
California Post-Feinstein Golden State Political Power Could Shift South — and to the Left
The congressional candidates vying to succeed Dianne Feinstein, and the vacancies their campaigns have created, provide opportunities for officeholders who are younger, more liberal and more rooted...
California’s Senate Race: Tweedledum, Tweedledee & Steve Garvey
The question raised by the first debate among the four leading candidates for California’s U.S. Senate race is whether Republican Steve Garvey can finish second in the March primary to win a...
Brownsville, Texas, to Los Angeles
Since last June, nearly 1,000 migrants have been bused from Texas to Los Angeles as a political stunt. A patchwork system has emerged to provide care, services and a humane entry to U.S. life...
If Biden Doesn’t Win, Blame Him and This…
Former President Obama is among anxious Democrats, including some inside the campaign, who discussed the urgency of 2024 and the structure of the re-election campaign with Mr. Biden in November, to...
The Last Best Days of Lucy’s El Adobe Cafe
The famous but now shuttered Lucy's El Adobe Café in Hollywood holds a special place in California pop culture but now symbolizes the demise of the Chicano Movement's once promising political...
THE LATINA AMBASSADOR: Nathalie Rayes Assumes Top Diplomatic Post in Croatia
'I am Latina and my parents are Lebanese," Rayes said in an interview. "I grew up in Venezuela until I was nine, and then my family moved to Santa Monica. At the time, L.A. was not as diverse as it...
Henry Kissinger, U.S. Foreign Policy Head under two Presidents, Dead at 100
LA Monthly News Services Henry A. Kissinger, the scholar and statesman who shaped world affairs under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald Ford, and ultimately became a global leader on his own,...
Pete Aguilar & The Latino Presidency
By TONY CASTRO ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 20, 2009, I am about 75 yards away from where Barack Obama would soon place his hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his 1861 inauguration and...
From American Immigrant Dream to Drunken Nightmare
A video of the arrest shows Wendy Carrillo looking so inebriated that she appears starting to fall in the middle of a sobriety test, saved from collapsing only by two LAPD officers at her side who...
Dodgers Great Steve Garvey Enters U.S. Senate Race
Former Los Angeles Dodgers All Star Steve Garvey has announced that he’s a candidate for the U.S. Senate.Garvey, who also played for the San Diego Padres, will run as a Republican, vying for the...
RFK Jr. Running for President as Independent, Ditching Democratic Party
Kennedy could play spoiler in a close 2024 celection between President Biden and former president Trump, the GOP primary frontrunner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his...
De León, Cedillo Sue Over Leaked Audio Recording
Councilman Kevin de León's lawsuit names as defenders only former county fed employees Karla Vasquez and Santos Leon who have been identified by Los Angeles Magazine as possibly having...
A New Stereotype? Another LA Councilman Faces Ethics Charges
John Lee is the latest City Council member facing accusations of violating “governmental ethics laws” by accepting and failing to report excessive gifts, including some received during a trip to...
The Great de León: A Reckoning for Los Angeles
How Los Angeles deals with Kevin de León and therefore with itself will show it to be either the Tinseltown viewed by its detractors — selfish and exclusive — or the city seen by its...
Why DA Gascón Needs to be Removed from Office
“It just seems that the district attorney wants to spare a life, when (the suspect) didn’t spare my son’s life — he executed my son.” —Kim Clinkunbroomer The mother of the Los Angeles...
Armed Man Arrested at RFK Jr. Hispanic Event
LOS ANGELES — Police arrested a man allegedly posing as a United States Marshal during a Hispanic Heritage Month event attended by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on...
Can Kevin de León Dig Out a Career Miracle?
When Kevin de León boasted that the Pershing Square project will “breathe life into the heart of downtown Los Angeles,” he could just as easily have been saying this is exactly what it was...
Living in the Shadow of Ruben Salazar
On Aug. 29, 1970, the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles protested the disproportionately high casualties among Latinos in Vietnam — but led to the tragic police shooting death of...
Antonio Villaraigosa: ‘I Want My Picture on That Wall’
Once Jerry Brown’s hangout, Lucy’s El Adobe opens its doors to the new favorite son. By Tony Castro Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News The story appeared January 8, 2006, but it is published with...
Just call her Eunisses: The New Latino Power in LA
By Ashley Chase EVEN BEFORE SHE UPSET THE LATINO political establishment to win a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, Eunisses Hernandez had dedicated her public career not to be a politician...
Adios, Lucy Casado: The End of an Era in L.A.
ON A PICTURE POSTCARD CALIFORNIA EVENING, a group of Tibetan monks in cardinal robes and gold undershirts traipsed across Melrose Avenue from the direction of Paramount...