Jessica P. Ogilvie

First, it was beaches. Then it was salons and barbershops. Now, the battle over coronavirus regulations is happening at party houses.

It’s no secret that 2020 has been one of the most difficult years in many Americans’ recent memory.

Saturday was August 1, the fifth due date for rent since stay-at-home orders were issued in March. To mark the occasion, protesters gathered outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home to demand that he cancel rent for Angenelos who are out of work because of the pandemic.

L.A. County public health officials have confirmed 23 new deaths and 1,476 new cases of the coronavirus. Today’s numbers bring the total in the region to 192,167 positive cases and 4,692 deaths.

This week, the extra $600 in weekly federal unemployment benefits to offset the economic effects of the coronavirus officially ended. And during a call with state legislators, the director of California’s Employment Development Department provided some other frightening numbers.

If you’ve been following the almost unbelievable scandal unfolding at L.A. City Hall, you know City Councilmember Jose Huizar was recently arrested by the FBI on a racketeering charge.

In 2012, 14-year-old Jose Rodriguez Jr. died after being shot multiple times by Santa Ana police officers.

In L.A. and across the country, we’re facing a protracted pandemic, a reckoning over racial inequity, and a smog of mixed signals about how to exist safely in a world that’s irrevocably changed.

Those of us with little kids at home know that nothing – nothing – can be accomplished without the help of child care.

Protests against systemic racism and police brutality are gaining renewed traction across the country as federal agents in Portland, Oregon are accused of violence and overreach.

Today’s numbers bring the total in the region to 173,995 positive cases and 4,360 deaths.

In a new essay, LAist contributor Catalina Lara, whose husband is a police officer, explores the difficult conversations happening in her Mexican American family around law enforcement and race.