Hillel Aron

In Los Angeles, resistance to change at the neighborhood level has never been at a more feverish pitch than it is today. We have the massive effort behind the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, which seeks to curb large-scale development; we have the grassroots resistance to gentrification in Boyle Heights; and we have the......

Los Angeles is an oft misunderstood city. East Coast media types describe us as a bunch of illiterate, solipsistic screenwriters, forever inventing new diet trends and going on "hikes," which are really brisk walks.  But even those of us living in L.A. often fail to fully grasp the city's history,......

Chris Bathum, the founder and owner of Community Recovery Los Angeles, a chain of two dozen or so sober living houses and outpatient clinics, was arrested in Lost Hills yesterday for "transport [or] sale of a controlled substance," according to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. He was released on $30,000 bail......

tronc. Those five letters, printed in a rainbow-colored, lowercase font with the subtle overlay of a microchip, greeted Los Angeles Times writers and editors in a June 2 email. "Colleagues," read the email from Justin Dearborn, the recently appointed CEO of the Times' parent company, Tribune Publishing. "Today, I am......

Charter School pioneer Steve Barr, who founded Green Dot Public Schools, announced this week that he's running for mayor. Why would Barr, who's never held public office and is not a millionaire, want to run against popular incumbent Eric Garcetti?  Because, says Barr, Garcetti has been completely MIA on one......

Los Angeles is about to put the "short" back into short-term rentals. Fun fact: Airbnb and other methods of home-sharing are illegal in Los Angeles. Any time someone rents out a unit for under 30 days, unless that unit is zoned to be used as a hotel or bed and......

Could Eric Garcetti be the next vice president of the United States of America? To make a short blog post even shorter, the answer is no. According to the Wall St. Journal, presumptive Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton is looking at nine semi-famous politicians to run with her as VP,......

When hundreds of Angelenos recently were asked a fairly open-ended question — "What do you think the most important issue facing the residents of L.A. is that you would like the city government to do something about?" — the most popular response was somewhat surprising. "Traditionally, when you ask people in......

Remember that Metro ad campaign a couple years ago, "Every Lane's a Bike Lane"?  The message was that bicyclists belong on the road, and while they have to obey most of the same traffic laws that vehicles do, drivers shouldn't get all aggro when they see a cyclist peddling in......