A week ago, Los Angeles schools Supt. Austin Beutner went to Sacramento to nail down support for the school district if teachers decided to go on strike. He came back sounding very optimistic that lawmakers understood the district’s finances were so perilous that it could not afford what the teachers…
Laguna Hills will test the use of organic-only pesticides at two parks to see if it can keep weeds and insects at bay effectively at an additional cost the city could absorb. In response to a number of community members approaching City Hall about its use of synthetic products for controlling pests – many of…
Two years ago, anger, fear and defiance motivated millions of Americans to march in what’s been described as the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. The Women’s March of 2019, slated for Saturday, Jan. 19, is expected to draw a huge – if smaller than 2017 – crowd yet again, in an event that will…
ShowOff! International Playwriting Festival is back at Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano through Jan. 20, with seven short plays voted on by the audience. As the audience, you only see the top seven and nightly you will also hear one of the runner-up plays read as a “Reader’s Theater.” ShowOff! 2019 Finalists Playwrights…
At local mountains, where snowfall was plentiful at the start of the week, raindrops started falling from the sky Thursday. It’s not the best news for those planning on hitting the slopes, as the rain turns the snow to mush. But there’s a bright side to all this wet stuff: For lakes that have suffered…
The Trump administration probably separated thousands more children from their families at the border than the roughly 2,700 the government has previously acknowledged, a federal watchdog said Thursday. The report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General drew…
Harvey Weinstein and attorney Benjamin Brafman announced Thursday that the criminal defense attorney will no longer represent the beleaguered producer in his rape case and that a new team of lawyers will be announced next week. The formal announcement that Weinstein will allow Brafman to inform…
A Los Angeles Unified employee working at South Gate Middle School during the teachers’ strike was removed from the school after she shouted, “Build the wall!” at picketers. The district said it was investigating the incident, which went viral when a video was posted on Facebook. “This behavior…
Negotiations resumed Thursday for the first time in a week to settle the teachers’ strike in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The venue is City Hall; the start time was high noon. The talks resumed under the aegis of Mayor Eric Garcetti. Garcetti met with Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president…
LOS ANGELES — Negotiations between the union representing striking teachers and the Los Angeles Unified School District will resume Thursday at City Hall. “The Mayor’s Office will facilitate these negotiations,” according to a statement released by Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office Wednesday night. United Teachers Los Angeles, the union representing the teachers, “will be ready to…
