Your guide to L.A. City Charter Amendment PL: Streamlining Planning Department processes
Charter Amendment PL is a bit confusing, but at its core it contains five proposals that would streamline and speed up…
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Your guide to L.A. City Measure FD: Hiking Fire Department sales tax
Supporters say Los Angeles Measure FD will ensure adequate funding for the L.A. City Fire Department; opponents say it…
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Your guide to Proposition 2: Lets leaders fatten 'rainy day' fund, reduces likelihood of taxpayer rebates
Prop 2 guide: California Democrats want to change the state constitution to allow them to deposit more money into…
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Your guide to Proposition 42: Tax ban on retirement, personal savings
Prop 42 would ban new taxes on various forms of personal savings and certain retroactive taxes and also could block a…
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Your guide to Proposition 40: California's billionaire tax proposal
Prop 40, which would tax the assets of California billionaires to mostly fund healthcare, has divided Democratic…
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Your guide to Proposition 41: Special tax audit proposal could block billionaire tax
Prop 41 would require audits for new state special taxes and prohibit certain new state taxes. It also could nullify…
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Your guide to Proposition 45: Faster CEQA review for housing and infrastructure
Prop 45 seeks to overhaul the law often blamed for delaying construction and driving up its cost: the California…
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Your guide to Proposition 44: Federally funded health clinic spending
Prop 44 asks voters to require federally funded community health centers to spend at least 90% of their total annual…
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Your guide to the California Congressional District 27 race: Whitesides vs. Gibbs
Democratic Rep. George Whitesides is facing off against Republican challenger Jason Gibbs, who serves on the Santa…
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Your guide to the California Congressional District 40 race: Kim vs. Calvert
Republican Young Kim and Republican Ken Calvert are facing off to keep representing California's newly drawn 40th…
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Your guide to the California Congressional District 26 race: Irwin vs. Gallucci
Democratic Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin is facing off against Republican nonprofit leader Samuel Gallucci in the race…
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Voter guide to the 2026 California general election
California's general election takes place on Novemer 3. Learn about L.A.'s city and county races as well races for…
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Your guide to L.A. City Charter Amendment SC: Board of education campaign finance rules
Los Angeles City Charter Amendment SC would clarify language in the city charter to make clear candidates for the LAUSD…
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Your guide to L.A. City Charter Amendment PRT: Greater public insight into airport, harbor departments
Los Angeles City Charter Amendment PRT would affect the city's departments of airports, harbor and water and power,…
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Your guide to L.A. County Charter Amendment A: Binding arbitration
Measure A would require binding arbitration if talks between county officials and unions representing sheriff's…
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Your guide to the L.A. County Superior Court Judge Office 64 election
Maria Ghobadi and Rhonda Haymon are competing for the Superior Court Judge Office 64 seat. Here's what you need to know…
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Your guide to the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees Seat 2 race
Five candidates are vying for Seat 2 on the board of trustees for the Los Angeles Community College District, where…
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Gas prices, AI data centers and Trump's long shadow: Top takeaways from the governor's race debate
The two candidates to become California's next governor painted vastly different portraits of the state they want to…
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'Blowout': Here's who won the Hilton-Becerra debate for California governor
Three Times columnists weigh in on the only scheduled face-to-face debate in the race for California governor.
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Lopez: The California I grew up in was full of ambition and possibility. Is the dream still alive?
From the next governor I'd like to see more of the striving, imagination and sense of collective purpose that made…
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$7.5-billion mini-NIH plan goes to California voters under bill signed by Newsom
California voters will decide whether to create a $7.5 billion state scientific research arm similar to the National…
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Commentary: Live chat: Times columnists analyze the CNN California governor debate
Follow along as Times columnists Anita Chabria, Mark Z. Barabak and Gustavo Arellano chat about the California…
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Federal judge allows Paramount-Warner merger to move forward
The judge's approval allows tech scion David Ellison to finalize his company's $111-billion takeover of Warner Bros.…
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Newsom signs landmark bill aimed at giving lifeline to struggling California newsrooms
Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of…
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California revives Wildlife Coexistence Program amid record wolf pup boom
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that restores California's Wildlife Coexistence Program in an effort to resolve rising…
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House Speaker Mike Johnson stumping and fundraising for California GOP congressional candidates
House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to visit California on Wednesday to stump and fundraise for Republican candidates in a…
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How the battle for Pelosi's seat ignited a bitter San Francisco Democratic showdown
The race to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) in Congress has divided the progressive city and state…
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Fewer California Republicans approve of Trump, poll says. That could hurt GOP midterm chances
With gas prices high and an unpopular war dragging on, President Trump's approval has slipped with California…
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Paramount streaming chief Cindy Holland exits studio, making way for HBO's Casey Bloys
The announcement comes as Paramount waits for a judge's approval of its $111-billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery.
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No electric shock gloves, face coverings: Newsom pushes back on Trump's 'Orwellian' immigration agenda
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills banning electric shock gloves and other Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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With bans and taunts, Trump escalates his assault on the media
The attacks come at a precarious moment for public trust in the media, with more Americans saying limits on the press…
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Subpoena records offer clues about Trump administration probe of L.A. County voters
Federal investigators have sent L.A. County election officials multiple grand jury subpoenas as part of a criminal…
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His mom was detained by ICE. Two months later, he died by suicide
Samuel Gonzalez Terrones, 21, struggled with depression and schizophrenia. His mom's arrest by ICE became too much to…
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State attorney general to oversee Kaiser's medical arbitration system under new law
The California attorney general will help oversee healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente's medical arbitration system to…
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Senate OKs a sweeping college sports bill. Here's what it would do
The bipartisan Protect Student College Sports Act would give the NCAA more power to govern national rules and…
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More than $200 million spent fighting and supporting billionaire tax measure, and more to come
Donors pour more than $200 million into supporting and opposing the billionaire tax measures on the ballot, with more…
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