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🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 15: What's getting voted off the island at the LA City Charter Reform Commission?

Jan 17, 2026

News from an LA Reporter. This issue is focused just on the Charter Reform Commission, which is headed into an elimination round on Saturday, with a last minute push to get a proposal to give 16 and 17 year olds the vote onto this November's ballot.

Hundreds answered LA city financial watchdog Kenneth Mejia's call to defend their office against charter 'attack'

Jan 16, 2026

People submitted more than 260 letters, and crammed into a North Hollywood meeting room last week to urge against a proposal to strip the City Controller's office of its accounting duties. This comes at a critical stage for the Charter Reform Commission, the members of which are meeting Saturday, Jan. 17, to cull away from its long list of charter change proposals.

🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 14: Didn't they already approve an Olympic Wage?

Jan 3, 2026

News from an LA Reporter. This issue, that includes a bevy of citizen-sponsored ballot initiatives getting fed into the election hopper, The Nation magazine dedicating a special package to Los Angeles in its first 2026 issue, and Black Lives Matter leader penning an open letter saying Karen Bass no longer a progressive.

🐦 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.