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🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 13: LA Public Library staffers seek apology for Read Palestine Week cancellation

Dec 19, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. For this issue, that includes the LA Public Library cancelling Read Palestine Week event over authors' social media posts, LAPD's last-minute addition to the charter reform agenda, and the Ethics Commission getting tough on LA City Councilman John Lee.

LA City Librarian cites need to be 'apolitical,' as staffers seek apology for cancelled Read Palestine Week event

Dec 19, 2025

More than 100 library staffers put their names to a "solidarity letter" that seeks an apology from library administrators. City Librarian John Szabo now says the cancellation of a Dec. 6 Read Palestine Week event was due to author's social media posts.

LAPD is finally getting taken up by the LA Charter Reform panel. What took so long?

Dec 11, 2025

Some point to a tight timeline and crowded plate for the commission. Others say it's a political hot potato.

LA Public Library cancels Read Palestine Week event set for Saturday at Central Library

Dec 5, 2025

Jenan Matari, author of the children's book Everything Grows in Jiddo's Garden, and Nora Lester Murad, who wrote the young adult book Ida in the Middle, say that library officials cancelling their talk is censorship. Library officials, instead, pointed to issues with the event's approval process.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 12: LA's homeless services on the chopping block

Nov 25, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes LA County officials short on Measure A funds proposing to gut homeless services, a panel tackling LA city's budget woes gets going, and a proposed ballot measure that calls for sticking it to LA's "overpaid" CEOs.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 11: 'A matter of survival'

Nov 18, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes a progressive challenge against Mayor Karen Bass, rent hikes to be capped after two years of organizing, LAPD asks for cash for Olympics and encampment sweeps, and LA called on to join charter reform civic assembly.

Lefty mayoral challenger Rae Huang says she can't take another four years of Karen Bass

Nov 15, 2025

Huang, a housing advocate and ordained minister, said she was upset by Bass's attempt to scale back LA's 'mansion tax.' She also criticizes Bass's Inside Safe program, calling it a bandaid solution that's very costly and only puts people into temporary housing.

'That moment broke something in us': LAHSA's homeless services workers say they've been left in the dark amid change-over

Nov 15, 2025

Workers at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority who do outreach to unhoused people, and help get people housed, have stuck it out while some of their colleagues have left for more stable jobs. They worry they'll be left hanging.

Speak Up! teams advocates and mentors to break 'bad sitcom' narratives around homelessness

Nov 15, 2025

The Speak Up! program was started in 2013 to educate more people about the "permanent supportive housing" model. It's since been trying to make space for people, who have been homeless, to hold key roles in the "homelessness sector."

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 10: New York's Zohran is Big in LA

Nov 12, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes LA's anti-Olympics movement getting abandoned by a one-time close ally, Mamdani inspires local politicos, Working Families Party making inroads in Los Angeles, and LA city controller advertises his departure from the Democratic Party.