Gene Maddaus

At a City Council debate in Boyle Heights a couple weeks ago, Gloria Molina took dead aim at gentrification. She noted that politicians have talked about bringing a Starbucks to Boyle Heights. "We don't need a Starbucks," she declared, to cheers from her supporters. "We need to take our own......

More than a month after launching her Senate campaign, Kamala Harris agreed to talk about it on Wednesday. Harris has had a charmed campaign so far. Several other candidates have publicly "mulled" the race, but none has entered it. If things keep going this way, she can take a 22-month......

Christina Correia is one of those people who's not supposed to exist in Los Angeles. She's hyper-engaged in local affairs, passionate about the fate of her community, and a real pain in the neck when she wants her street paved. Correia lives at the top of Hillsdale Drive in Monterey......

Rep. Janice Hahn announced this morning that she is running for the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. Hahn would replace Don Knabe, a Republican who has served on the board since 1996, and who is termed out next year. If Hahn is elected, organized labor would gain a solid three-vote......

On the face of it, it's not obvious why Garment Line, a Vernon-based clothing manufacturer, would care about voter turnout in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, on Feb. 4 the company donated $25,000 to Citizens for Increased Voter Participation, the committee that has been organized to support Charter Amendments 1 and 2......

In March 2013, Los Angeles voters went to the polls and defeated Measure A, a half-cent sales tax increase that would have boosted city revenues by $215 million a year. For city leaders, the defeat prompted some soul-searching — not so much about the city's finances or about the electorate's......

A new poll shows Antonio Villaraigosa would start a Senate race against Kamala Harris at a significant disadvantage. The poll shows Villaraigosa trailing Harris, 28-18 percent, in a hypothetical four-way matchup. The poll was commissioned by the Latino Legislative Caucus, which has been urging a Latino candidate to enter the......

Seems there was an unusually large police presence on 6th Street in downtown L.A. last night. While the LAPD was cagey about it at first, ultimately it emerged that they were escorting Rene "Boxer" Enriquez to a speaking engagement before a business group. Enriquez is a former leader of the......

Over the weekend, Eric Bauman, the chair of the L.A. County Democratic Party, paid a visit to Antonio Villaraigosa. The former L.A. mayor was deep into his third week of serious consideration over whether to run for Senate. As they sat overlooking the ocean, Bauman found him to be in......

Another day, another L.A.-area endorsement for Attorney General Kamala Harris. This time it's L.A. District Attorney Jackie Lacey who is backing Harris for Senate. That's one more shot across the bow of former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is still deciding whether to enter the race. On Monday, L.A. City......