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Frank Shyong: Racial coalitions define life in Los Angeles, and City Hall’s divisive politics needs to catch up

We no longer live in the Los Angeles that is depicted in the leaked recordings of city leaders engaging in a casually racist and nakedly corrupt conversation.

Los Angeles Times

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio to teach at NYU in 2023

NEW YORK — Bill de Blasio, who long ago plastered the lyrics to Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” on the wall of his New York University dorm room and later served as New York City’s 109th mayor, will return to his alma mater to teach this winter and spring, the school…

Tribune News Service

Racist audio leak has ‘tainted’ LA's redistricting maps. Now some want them scrapped

LOS ANGELES — For nearly a week, activists and elected officials have demanded the ouster of three Los Angeles City Council members, calling it the only acceptable response to secretly recorded audio of them engaged in a conversation with racist and derogatory language.

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Gil Cedillo, a champion for immigrant rights, imperiled by racist leak scandal

LOS ANGELES — When four Latino leaders held a meeting to discuss Los Angeles' City Council boundaries last year, one in the group acted at points as the political elder in the room, a now-infamous audio recording revealed.

Los Angeles Times

Hefty fines for trash dumped in waterways, says BMA

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) reportedly collects 9,000 tonnes of trash a day from canals and is urging people not to throw waste, including mattresses, into waterways or they will be fined, according to governor Chadchart Sittipunt.

Bangkok Post

Bribes, kickbacks, secret recordings: A recent history of LA City Hall scandals

LOS ANGELES — The recent leak of a recording that exposed some of Los Angeles' top officials making abhorrent racist comments, disparaging multiple racial and ethnic groups, has rocked the City of Angels.

Los Angeles Times

City Hall OK’d South Side diner for Taste of Chicago despite years of unpaid city bills, taxes

Being delinquent to the city and also having stopped paying its property taxes 12 years ago didn’t keep Josephine’s Southern Cooking from being handed a coveted Taste spot by Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration.

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Editorial: Endorsement: Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor

Los Angeles desperately needs, and will soon get, new leadership. No elected office is more important than mayor; this is the person Angelenos look to in a crisis, who can set the tone of the political discourse and should act as the moral compass for city policy.

Los Angeles Times

City should have shut down Loop club before weekend killing, 25th Ward alderman says

Police closed Persona Lounge after a security guard was charged with killing another guard there, but should have shut it down after a July shooting outside the club left two people dead and three wounded, Sigcho-Lopez says.

Chicago Sun-Times

The mystery behind LA's racist tape scandal: Who leaked it — and why?

LOS ANGELES — Three Los Angeles City Council members went to a squat office building near MacArthur Park last October to seek advice from an influential labor leader about solidifying their grip on power.

Los Angeles Times

What happens if the LA councilmembers resign?

LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden on Tuesday joined the chorus of leaders calling on Los Angeles City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo and Kevin de León to resign, with his press secretary telling reporters in the White House briefing room that the language in the leaked recording was "unacceptable"…

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Almost no one was spared in that racist conversation among top LA Latino officials

Since the entire city seems to be dissecting the secret Los Angeles City Hall recordings for expressions of hatred against every demographic group that is not Latino, allow me to chime in.

Los Angeles Times

Racist comments. Corruption. City Hall in chaos. Welcome to LA politics 2022

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Hall has felt under siege the last few years.

Los Angeles Times

Racist remarks spotlight rivalry between LA Latinos, Blacks

A leaked recording of crude, racist comments that resulted in the president of the Los Angeles City Council resigning from the post also provided a look into City Hall’s racial rivalries

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LA civic leaders call for Martinez, de León and Cedillo to resign from City Council

LOS ANGELES — The chorus of civic leaders calling for L.A. City Council members Nury Martinez, Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo to step down from the City Council grew louder Monday, as U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, Mayor Eric Garcetti and both mayoral candidates called on the embattled politicians to…

Los Angeles Times

Nury Martinez steps down as Los Angeles City Council president

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez stepped down from her powerful position Monday morning, a day after incendiary leaked audio exploded into public. It appears that she will remain on the 15-member legislative body.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: poll shows clear support for expanding Ulez across Greater London

City Hall survey funds 51 per cent back Ulez expansion but 27 per cent are opposed

Evening Standard

Youth workers in A&E departments to divert stab victims away from crime

Youth workers are to be embedded in A&E departments across London in an effort to divert young victims of violence away from crime as part of a £7.8 million investment from City Hall.

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Evening Standard

Summer heatwave saw London footfall plummet to Covid ‘Plan B’ levels

Record high temperatures in London this summer had a similar impact on visitor footfall as the introduction of “Plan B” pandemic restrictions in December 2021, according to City Hall.

Orlando Sentinel

Fort Lauderdale embraces smoking ban at beach and parks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Not one soul stormed City Hall to protest a ban on smoking at Fort Lauderdale’s beach and city parks.

Bristol Post

Ombudsman criticises Bristol City Council in annual review

City Hall officers hail "improvements" following two previous damning letters from the watchdog

Tribune News Service

AOC rips Mayor Adams’ migrant tents in her district: ‘We can get to a place with a better solution’

The political pleasantries didn’t last long.

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan calls for immediate rent freeze as half of London renters paying a premium for draughty homes

New City Hall analysis has revealed that half of London renters are paying a premium to heat poorly insulated homes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Refusing to wait for Garcia to decide, Chicago Teachers Union, United Working Families endorse Brandon Johnson for mayor

U.S. Rep. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia sent an email asking United Working Families to defer a mayoral endorsement, but the group refused because Garcia was unwilling to give them a timeline for when — or if — he will announce a mayoral run.

Evening Standard

Silvertown Tunnel construction site damaged by ‘very worrying’ and ‘challenging’ fire

Six fire engines and 40 firefighters were called to the blaze in Newham

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