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💸 LA Mayor Karen Bass instructs city general managers to propose 5% cuts to departments

Oct 17, 2025

The budget-cutting exercise was part of instructions delivered by the mayor and the City Administrative Officer to general managers in a memo dated Oct. 6.

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🐦 The LA Reporter, Issue 6: Introducing an interview series at your local doughnut shop

Oct 13, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, we have the debut of The Doughnut Shop Interviews series, ex-LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner's social media letting the cat out of the bag, and a progressive council office ordering a CARE+ sweep that brings heavy LAPD enforcement.

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LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’

Oct 12, 2025

🗣️ LA Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez’s constituents confronted her staffer, after Los Angeles Police Department officers showed up in large numbers right before a CARE+ encampment sweep that her office scheduled last Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.

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🍩 The Doughnut Shop Interviews: Chatting about the future of LA politics over French cruller and apple fritter

Oct 11, 2025

For the first interview in this series, The LA Reporter talked to Raymond Meza, chair of the Los Angeles Charter Reform Commission, about the citizen panel’s effort to help rewrite the Los Angeles city charter, at Monterey Donut in northeast Los Angeles.

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The LA Reporter, Issue 5: 'There's nothing we can really do'

Oct 3, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes twice-a-week encampment sweeps in West Los Angeles, and candidates in 'progressive' state race shying away from AIPAC

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Candidates in 'progressive' state race shy away from AIPAC

Oct 2, 2025

Sara Hernandez, who went on a trip to Israel with AIPAC in 2018, called on to return funds from AIPAC-affiliated donors, insists she isn't a candidate who accepts money from AIPAC. Wendy Carrillo, who took funds from one of the same donors, says she is donating the same amount to a group feeding people in Gaza.

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The LA Reporter, Issue 4: How to beat the mass extinction blues

Sep 26, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes the under-the-radar confirmation of a controversial LAPD commissioner pick, proposed cuts to parks and the public defenders office, and a way to beat back the mass extinction blues in October.

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The LA Reporter, Issue 3: 'It's déjà vu all over again.'

Sep 19, 2025

News from an LA Reporter. This week, that includes a win for journalists attacked by LAPD while covering protests, and LA leaders telling the charter reform commission they no longer want to get legal advice from an elected city attorney.

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Bye bye city attorney? LA leaders want to drop the elected attorney, seek advice elsewhere

Sep 19, 2025

Two City Council members have now weighed in to say they prefer to get legal advice from an appointed attorney, not an elected one.

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Here's what LAPD officers need to read before getting sent into protests

Sep 18, 2025

A court order secured by the LA Press Club and investigative reporting network Status Coup requires that the LAPD show they're complying with existing laws protecting journalists' rights.

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