California
Heather Hutt’s victory, along with Ysabel Jurado’s defeat of Kevin de León, means there will be a female majority on the L.A. City Council for the first time.
Opinion
Heather Hutt was appointed to the Los Angeles City Council District 10. She’s performed well and deserves to be elected for a full term.
The tenants’ rights attorney would be a refreshing change for this Eastside Los Angeles City Council district, currently represented by Kevin de León.
Politics
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The details of LAPD discipline reform should have been worked out months before the ballot deadline, but City Hall has kept wrangling up to the last minute.
The L.A. City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved a housing rezoning plan Tuesday that largely exempts single-family neighborhoods. The proposal now heads to the full city council.
Police abolition — and law enforcement spending overall — has emerged as a political fault line in two L.A. city council races, particularly for voters worried about crime and disorder.
Tenant advocates had pushed for stronger rules to protect tenants from harassment, saying existing law was ineffective. Landlords said the changes would lead to unnecessary lawsuits.
The package of reforms the L.A. City Council is considering has a problem: It doesn’t give the City Ethics Commission the independence it needs to do its watchdog job.
Ysabel Jurado has declined to apologize for saying “f— the police,” in a contest where the issue of when and how to apologize has been a dominant theme.