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Letters to the Editor: Readers soured on L.A. City Hall long ago. Now theyre really piling on Paul Thornton © (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times) Los Angeles City Hall. (Los Angeles Times) Since the days of the Antonio Villaraigosa administration, Los Angeles City Hall has been one of our letter writers favorite punching bags. Conservative readers lambast the mayor and City Council for what they feel are onerous regulations on businesses and for taking progressive stances on ...

Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander has begun serving a federal prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to federal corruption charges

Thursday, June 3. I’m Brittny Mejia, coming to you from Los Angeles. Times staff writer Kevin Baxter takes us on a journey to a 13-mile stretch of Salvadoran shoreline that has turned into one of the world’s newest surfing meccas — thanks, in part, to Californians. It’s a spot where the waves are so ripe and the water so warm, tourism officials are hoping it can repair the country’s battered image while the International Surfing Assn. has chosen it as the location of the final qualif...

For the vaccinated in California, the prospect of not having to wear a mask is coming. Will it push skeptics to get their shots?

Disgraced ex-L.A. City Councilman Mitchell Englander. (Getty) Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander began a prison sentence for his admitted role in accepting cash and other gifts from developers as part of a wider corruption scandal at City Hall. In January, a federal judge sentenced Englander to 14 months in prison. He will serve his time in the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona, according to the Los Angeles Times. The high-security prison houses more than 1,200 inmates, bu...

Print Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander, convicted in a sprawling City Hall corruption case last year, has begun serving his 14-month sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Tucson, prison records show. Englander was sentenced in January for lying to federal authorities about his dealings with a businessman who provided him $15,000 in secret cash payments and a debauched night in Las Vegas. He was the first to be imprisoned in a probe that has also produced felony charges again...

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Collar Flap Incident at the Ethics Commission Details THE CITY-The Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Alex Villanueva three minutes to speak at Tuesdays board meeting. He rambled on about how unfair the Board was being to his deputies who the board was alleging had engaged in horrible conduct toward family members of victims who had lost loved ones following encounters with the department.  I registered to provide a comment but once again the board announced it would...

LA Recusals, Public Comment, and Other Musings Details LOS ANGELES- Metro: Thanks to the LA Metro records team for providing the AT&T invoices for teleconferencing service for metro meetings.  Weve been paying $386/hour for speaker sub/conference administration management and $309/hour for an Event Producer on meeting days. Thats $695/hour to put on a conference call.    Bonin who loves pumping NextGen Bus service and fareless anything told the board when he ...