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Los Angeles held five “Tom LaBonge Day of Service” cleanup events around the city Saturday in honor of the former councilman, known as Mr. Los Angeles, who...

Nithya Raman Puts Community Second in Her Homeless Housing Plans Details DEEGAN ON LA-This is Part 3 in a series about Councilmember Nithya Raman (CD4).  It was a facile promise for Nithya Raman (CD4) to make, in the final days of a hard campaign. Raman told voters in a last-minute mailer that she would  “use city-owned parking lots to create safe parking, with services, safety, and security, that will help our unhoused neighbors, not push them out of their cars and onto our streets.”  That configuration has now morphed into affordable housing units for the ...

Recall Nithya Raman I have been key in starting the initiative to recall. I have lived in Los Angeles City Council District 4, for the most part since 1994, and I believe Raman is not the right representative we need for our area, at this time. Raman seems a nice person, based on my limited interaction with her. But in my view, she is not cut out to lead 250,000 constituents from the San Fernando Valley to Silver Lake at a time as precarious as this. And as one poster wrote recently on NextDoor: Tom LaBonge is, without certain, rolling in his grave.

By City News Service May 4, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles City Council today unanimously voted to create a youth council similar to one created by former Mayor Tom Bradley, which two of the council members served on. The motion, introduced by Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez and Councilmen Mark Ridley-Thomas and Paul Koretz, instructed the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment to create the “Olivia Mitchell Youth Council'' made up of two youth representatives from each Los Angeles council district. The council will be similar to the Youth Advisory Council that Bradley established ...