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Commissioners talk diversity, or a lack thereof May. 24, 2021 at 6:00 am In an attempt to increase diversity and representation, Santa Monica Housing Commissioners are exploring the possibility of a lottery system that would help the local commission systematically appoint more diverse members. The proposal comes from the Commission’s Diversity Subcommittee, which has worked in recent months to finalize a report that was expected to be discussed this week by local officials. But an absence during Thursday’s Commission meeting postponed the conversation that was first initiated back in Feb...

Nithya Raman is about to show us just how progressive Los Angeles really is Matthew Fleischer © Provided by The LA Times Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman. (Los Angeles Times) All things considered, it’s pretty remarkable that California is now the Bernie-loving heart of the “resistance”— the most reliably Democratic state in America. It wasn’t that long ago, after all, that this was the ideological incubation chamber for the Reagan Revolution and the mouth-frothing modern anti-immigrant movement. Yet despite its relatively recent liberal glow-up, when...