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Updated at bottom First posted at 8:54 pm. The early vote-by-mail ballots are in, and Curren Price is leading Ana Cubas by 14 points. As any school child knows, the only jobs that qualify you to sit on the Los Angeles city council are state legislator, city hall staffer or......

Polls have been closed for three and a half hours, and the Los Angeles City Clerk has managed to count less than 50,000 votes. At least LA County had that damn fog as an excuse. LA Times columnist Steve Lopez is going absolutely bonkers on twitter: it could take three......

See also: Fear and Loathing of Los Angeles: Let Them Keep Hating. We Know Better. Every day, hundreds (just to go with a nice round number) of hard-working, diverse, interesting people come to Los Angeles and feed our desperately sluggish economy, buying tacos and facial treatments and what have you......

Eleven years ago, five powerful women served on the 15-member Los Angeles City Council. Today, there is one — Jan Perry, who is termed out this year. When the new City Council is sworn in on July 1, there may be no women. Councilman Jose Huizar's veteran former chief of......

Update: The Koch Brothers respond, sort of. See next page. See also: Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy. A bombshell. It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren. Multiple......

Update, Wednesday morning: In a huge embarrassment for City Council President Herb Wesson and the City Hall establishment, voters resoundingly rejected the citywide sales tax hike, 55.17 percent to 44.82 percent. See details on next page. With additional reporting by Jill Stewart. Update, 12:40 PM: Bad news for Council President......

Early returns show Antonio Sanchez, the 30-year-old former aide to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, ahead with 42 percent of the vote. He'll need over 50 percent if wants to avoid a runoff on May 21. His opponent Monica Ratliff is in second place with 33 percent of the vote, while Maria......

School Board President Monica Garcia enjoys a healthy lead in the early vote count, outpacing her rivals with 55 percent of the vote. Robert Skeels is in second place with 16 percent, followed by Annamarie Montanez with 12 percent, Isabel Vazquez with 10 percent, and Abelardo Diaz with 7 percent......