Frank Stoltze
I came to L.A. as a very young reporter on New Year’s Day, 1991. Two months later, four LAPD officers were caught on videotape beating Rodney King. A year later, the night before the riots/rebellion broke out, I was in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts at an extraordinary rally of rival gangs that had brokered a truce.
Today, I cover Civics and Democracy in L.A. As we face perhaps the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War, I seek to engage with communities and examine the hurdles to becoming involved in the political process. I cover the various social and political movements seeking to improve the lives of Angelenos. I also cover anti-democratic forces.
And after all these years, I still need to figure out the best donut shop in L.A. The best torta. The best (not fanciest) coffee. Best of all I get to meet the smartest, most interesting people and bring their voices to you.
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The instructor was one of a group of protestors who confronted immigration agents at a marijuana farm in Camarillo in July, prosecutors say. -
The brothers have been in prison for more than three decades for the shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, at their Beverly Hills home in August 1989.
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The decision follows a years-long effort to free Erik and his brother Lyle who are both serving life sentences for the 1989 shotgun slayings of their parents. Lyle Menendez has his hearing Friday.
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This week's hearings are the latest in a long legal road for the brothers, who were convicted of the 1989 shotgun murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.
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The California Fair Elections Act would lift the ban on public financing of campaigns in the state, a potential game changer for elections.
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The L.A. County District Attorny said in a statement Tuesday that prosecutors filed the charges after uncovering evidence of alleged corruption.
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The seismic updates would occur at the Gas Company Tower, which the county purchased to become its new headquarters last year.
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Federal funding cuts, fire-related costs and continuing liabilities from child sexual abuse cases at juvenile facilities are placing the county in a pinch.
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City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson said public comment at meetings has become more vulgar in recent years.
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The move follows a series of immigration sweeps by masked federal agents, but its unclear whether the county can force federal officers to take off their face coverings.
