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Letters to the Editor: Readers soured on L.A. City Hall long ago. Now they're 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 issues like immigration, and readers on the left decry the apparent dissonance between those stanc...

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 qualifying rounds for the debut of surfing as an Olympic sport this summer.

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, but Englander will reside at the minimum security satellite camp with about 100 other inmates. He has ...