PFAS chemicals have been linked to numerous health problems, including cancer. And they’re increasingly being found in public drinking water systems.
Since the 2018 Dynamex decision was handed down by the California Supreme Court, strippers and erotic dancers have been at the center of an employment debate.
Gavin Newsom hailed a new charter school transparency law he signed. Why won’t the law prevent charters from failing?
Immigration activists and state agencies continue to put pressure on California’s ICE facilities.
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Why is the starting team of one of the most multicultural cities so vanilla?
Why Los Angeles researchers are looking differently at Skid Row.
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Diseases don’t respect borders, nor do they care about passports, citizenship or residency.
Developers blame a half-century-old law for slowing development. Studies show there are other factors at work.
Financial assurance flaws leave taxpayers potentially liable for massive clean-up costs.
Wealthy parents caught gaming the system. Eli Broad spends on privatization. The price of each vote for L.A. school board race.
State investigations raise concerns about human rights abuses in federal detention facilities.
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As cities struggle to rein in the short-term rental service, a detente in San Francisco may show the way.
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Love and energy aren’t always enough to provide what Allensworth, a historic African-American town, needs most: clean water, accessible to all.
A UCLA study found that 84 percent of the city of Los Angeles’ 147,000 retail employees lack fixed schedules.
Negotiators have been trying to hammer out a deal for smaller classes, more student resources and wages capable of retaining teachers squeezed by gentrification.
Although California’s leading politicians favor rent-cap legislation, none is on the horizon.
The closure of an immigrant detention center could represent a setback for the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policies.
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Parsing who is a company employee and who is an independent contractor is no mere academic exercise: Contractors typically lack the workplace benefits and security enjoyed by traditional employees.
“We must nominate a solid progressive,” says New York’s mayor about the Democrats’ next presidential candidate. “That’s the only way we can change the country. It’s also the only way we can win.”
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Angry immigrant rights activists say the generous ICE funding flies in the face of many Democrats’ stated desire to put the brakes on the Trump administration’s deportation surge.