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When the Los Angeles City Council opens its 2021 term on Tuesday, Councilman Kevin de León will introduce a range of motions with the goal of creating 25,000 new housing units for homeless people by 2025.
The former state Senate president pro tem made homelessness a centerpiece of his run for the seat that represents skid row and includes the most homeless people in the city of Los Angeles. Since he took office in October, he’s repeatedly stated that local government lacks a “North Star” in its quest to solve the homelessness crisis.
In an interview, De León was light on details about how the city might generate enough housing to almost double the number of units available to homeless people. Still, he said it was useful to have an ambitious but attainable goal that elected officials and the public could rely on as a yardstick for success and failure.
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Members of the Proud Boys, a right wing hate group, gather at a pro-Trump rally at the California Capitol Saturday.
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For nearly two months, repeated clashes between far-right groups and antifa-aligned counter-protesters have led to violence in the streets of Sacramento.
The brawls and beatings have occurred on the outskirts of weekly protests held by Trump supporters near the Capitol, promoting the conspiracy theory that Democrats stole the presidential election. While the protests themselves have been largely peaceful, far-right groups like the Proud Boys have routinely left the main demonstrations to confront counter-protesters in the streets downtown.
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Jan. 5 Happy Tuesday! Today is the highly-anticipated runoff for the Georgia Senate races. Here’s what is happening in California:
FIRST UP: Details of key police reform proposals for the new legislative year are expected to come at 9 a.m., when Sen. Steven Bradford and Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer lead a press conference to outline their goals. Bradford leads the Senate Public Safety Committee, and Jones-Sawyer chairs the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
WHO IS BANKROLLING THE NEWSOM RECALL EFFORT?
That’s what Ann Ravel, former chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, would like to know.
Newsom and his wife attended a birthday party for his political advisor Jason Kinney at the French Laundry in Yountville on Nov. 6.
Kinney’s firm, Axiom Advisors, has lobbied on behalf of several companies seeking to sway decision-making in Newsom’s office, including Netflix and unsecured creditors of Pacific Gas & Electric, records reviewed by The Times show. According to the firm, Kinney has built a firewall between his work for Newsom and Axiom’s clients, makes money only on work for his individual clients and does not profit from the firm’s overall earnings.
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California law doesn’t expressly prohibit lobbying the administration while also advising the governor, and some of Newsom’s predecessors sought the input of Sacramento lobbyists.