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Libby Denkmann
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Former senior politics reporter
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“I came to this country when I was 19. And now I’m working [in the Capitol]. I was almost crying,” said 48th District Congresswoman Michelle Steel.
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This year, Los Angeles politics has been caught in the crosscurrent of calls to reimagine public safety and the devastation COVID-19 has wrought on the city's budget.
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This week, we’ll be looking back at our coverage of 2020, one of the strangest, most difficult years through which many of us have ever lived.
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The son of a short-order cook and a housecleaner talks about becoming California’s first Latino U.S. Senator.
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The mayor rejected Los Angeles City Council’s plan for $88 million cut from the LAPD’s budget.
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"Far too many of the proposed expenditures do not meet the demands of the moment or the call of history," Garcetti said in a letter.
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Growing up in Pacoima as the son of Mexican immigrants, Padilla was a political wunderkind in Los Angeles, vaulting to prominence as a 26-year-old member of the city council.
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L.A. is facing a $675 million budget shortfall.
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Mark Ridley-Thomas and Nithya Raman are looking to shake up the city’s response to its Number One challenge: how to get Angelenos off the streets and into housing.
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Democratic groups have differing wish-lists of candidates to replace Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in the Senate.
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Eliminating any city jobs would be a bitter pill, CAO Rich Llewellyn said, but 'we do not see another way to cover the current shortfall.'
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Late Monday evening, Budget and Finance Committee members voted to reduce the number of possible LAPD layoffs to 355 officers and 273 civilian employees.
