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 race for California's 45th Congressional District remains the tightest in the country. -
The race for the 45th Congressional District in Southern California has become the closest House race in the nation.
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California law largely prohibits cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities.
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Republicans had hoped to flip the seat after Levin turned it Democratic in 2018. The seat covers coastal north San Diego County and parts of southern Orange County.
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The news that Jim McDonnell had been picked to lead the Los Angeles Police Department was announced early last month.
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Measure G, if passed, would changesa county governance structure that has mostly stayed the same since 1912 when L.A. County had a population of about 500,000 people.
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Nathan Hochman, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, has won the race to run the largest prosecutors' office in the country.
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In Los Angeles, the minimum wage goes up each year based on increases in the consumer price index. On July 1, it went up to $17.28 an hour.
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Proposition 36 would roll back some of the reforms contained in Proposition 47, the 2014 measure approved by voters in 2014.
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Kevin de León ran for a second term, despite previous calls for his resignation. He faced Ysabel J. Jurado on the ballot.
