Audience-funded nonprofit news
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
-
Listen Listen
Civics & Democracy
LAist’s coverage of civic life and citizen issues in Southern California. We cover elections, examine who gets listened to and why, and provide a guide for anyone who wants to more fully participate in civic life.
Huntington Beach is one of a handful of cities that has chosen to fight in court against efforts to force it to adopt geographic districts for city council elections.
Listen
0:45
Sponsored message
More Stories
-
Three men falsely arrested based on face recognition technology have joined the fight against a California bill that aims to place guardrails around police use of the technology. They say it will still allow abuses and misguided arrests.
-
The Police Commission extended the deadline to complete a community survey to June 14.
-
At the CalMatters Ideas Festival, two political experts debate the impact of young Latino voters driven more by economic concerns than immigration.
-
Since Gov. Newsom proposed a 28th Amendment one year ago, there has been far more progress on online petitions than in other state legislatures. His team says the effort will pick up speed in 2025.
-
The language could cast the measure in a favorable light, according to a lawsuit filed against the city.
-
Some cities like Orange are in the red, while others like Irvine are flush with cash.
-
A new study from UCLA and Duke University found that local journalism helps voters show support at the polls for fixing crumbling infrastructure.
-
Former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was elected Mexico’s first female president in the nation’s first electoral face-off between two female presidential candidates. But many local Mexican citizens who had hoped to cast a ballot at the local consulate couldn’t do so.
-
California cities funnel $1 billion in online sales taxes back to wealthy corporations, but the state Senate killed a bill that would change the rules for those arrangements. The vote came down to whether senators represent a city with a major retailer in a tax-sharing agreement in their districts.
-
The latest bid to break up California is the brainchild of a real estate developer in San Bernardino County. It taps into growing resistance to the state’s liberal governance by more conservative residents.
-
Former President Donald Trump still has campaign events scheduled in Southern California this summer, with photo opportunities starting at $35,000 before his sentencing.
-
Judge Juan Merchan will sentence Trump on July 11.
