Hillel Aron

A box of provisional ballots in Alameda County; Credit: Joe Hall / Flickr

Does Your Provisional Ballot Really Count?

Hillel Aron
So you went to your polling place, nervous, excited. You had your cheat sheet in one hand, your Starbucks in the other. Even waiting in line was a veritable pleasure. You got to the front, told the lady your name, she moved her ruler down the list with a practiced......
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Will an L.A. Times Exposé Upend the Board of Supervisors Race?

Hillel Aron
It's been a feisty campaign between Janice Hahn and Steve Napolitano, who are running to replace Don Knabe in the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' Fourth District. The Hahn campaign has called Napolitano a "slumlord millionaire," while Napolitano has decried Hahn's violation of campaign spending limits. Now, new revelations of......
Donald Trump speaking with the media at a hangar at Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa

Why We Can't Stop Reading About Trump

Hillel Aron
I have a problem: I can't stop reading about Donald Trump. As a reporter for a local newspaper, it's part of my job to keep up with the local news. But for the past few months, I've found that hard. I'll try to read an article about homelessness, or Measure......
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Why the F Are There Two Propositions About the Plastic Bag Ban?

Hillel Aron
Every year, there's at least one proposition in California designed specifically to screw with voters. This year, it's Proposition 65, which The Mercury News calls "one of the most disingenuous ballot measures in state history – and that's saying something." Indeed, there's reason to believe that voters are confused by......
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An anti-Proposition 8 protest in Sacramento in 2008

How California's Ballot Measure Process Got So Kooky

Hillel Aron
It's election season in California, and that means one thing: last-minute cramming. Voters are frantically trying to study 17 statewide ballot measures; pouring over the pros and cons of school construction bonds and marijuana legalization; and attempting to understand just what the hell it means to divert hospital fee revenue......
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Eric Garcetti Has a Lot Riding on Measure M, Metro's Transit Tax

Hillel Aron
Mayor Eric Garcetti has taken a somewhat chill approach to his first four years in charge. Whereas his predecessor, Antonio Villaraigosa, was all big ideas bold visions, which more often than not ended in failure (like his gambit to take over the public school system or planting a million trees),......