No on Proposition 20, a heavy-handed reaction to justice reforms
Over the last decade, California has undertaken significant criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the state’s prison population. In 2011, the year the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to...
View ArticleVote No on Proposition 16 to defend state’s respect for diversity and equality
Diversity truly is California’s strength. From Californios and indigenous communities to Americans of all backgrounds who’ve settled here to ongoing rounds of Mexican, Latin American, African, Asian...
View ArticleOur endorsements for the 12 state ballot measures
Below are our recommendations on the 12 statewide November ballot measures. Full endorsements are linked. Proposition 14: No This measure would authorize the issuance of $5.5 billion of bonds to...
View ArticleVote no on ballot-box-budgeting Measure J in L.A. County
Far from being as politically and socially hidebound as they are made out to be, it’s amazing how swiftly people’s views can change when they see with their own eyes the magnitude of a problem they had...
View ArticleOur endorsements for Los Angeles County Superior Court
Obscure though the candidates may be to most Los Angeles County citizens, voting for our local California Superior Court judicial seats is one of the most important choices the electorate makes. Unless...
View ArticleDaily Breeze endorsements for the Tuesday, Nov. 3 general election
Here are our recommendations for the general election. Click on the links to read the full editorials. Statewide BALLOT MEASURES 14 – NO 15 – NO 16 – NO 17 – YES 18 – NO 19 – NO 20 – NO 21 – NO 22 –...
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It is nearly here. The 2020 election. Deep breaths. We want to help. While the national presidential election gets most of the attention, there is a lot more on your ballot that will affect your life,...
View ArticleElect Tanya Ortiz Franklin for LAUSD Board District 7
Los Angeles Unified School District residents of District 7 have a clearly excellent choice for their school board representative in this fall’s election: Tanya Ortiz Franklin. Franklin, who grew up...
View ArticleHolly Mitchell for Los Angeles County supervisor
With longtime Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas termed out, voters in the 2nd Supervisorial district have their pick of two highly experienced candidates to represent them on the Board...
View ArticleGeorge Gascón for Los Angeles County district attorney
Earlier this year, ahead of the March primary, this editorial board endorsed George Gascón to serve as Los Angeles County’s district attorney. The world has certainly changed since we issued that...
View ArticleVote ‘yes’ on the recall, Larry Elder for governor
As one of the state’s few right-of-center editorial pages, readers — and the state’s political leaders — no doubt expected us to come to our conclusion that voters should recall Gov. Gavin Newsom....
View ArticleRe-elect Los Angeles County Assessor Jeff Prang: Endorsement
Los Angeles County is the largest county in the United States by population and one of the largest in the nation by area, at 4,084 square miles. Much of that land is divided into real-estate parcels,...
View ArticleRick Caruso for Los Angeles mayor: Endorsement
With Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s troubled tenure coming slowly to an end, voters will have the opportunity to choose a new leader to steer the city government through the storm of failed...
View ArticleLanhee Chen for Controller: Endorsement
California’s state controller is the elected official responsible for paying the state’s bills and tracking the state’s expenditures. The controller has the authority to audit state and local...
View ArticleLance Christensen for California Superintendent of Public Instruction:...
Long before the pandemic, California’s public education system faced deep and persistent problems. Most students failed to meet the state’s standards in math, English language arts and science....
View ArticleHydee Feldstein Soto for LA City Attorney, Stephanie Clements for LA City...
The city of Los Angeles, at the heart of the Southern California megalopolis, has enormous challenges, and is in need of both smart and effective new leadership. The good news at the city attorney and...
View ArticleBob Hertzberg for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors: Endorsement
The websites for the five districts represented by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors like to note that, because our county is so huge and so dense, the 2 million residents is a bigger...
View ArticleOur picks for Los Angeles County judges: Endorsements
Voters in Los Angeles County’s June primary have no more important duty than electing judges to the Superior Court. A fair, expedient judicial system simply doesn’t exist without smart, reasonable,...
View ArticleEnough of the nonsense, Robert Luna for Los Angeles County Sheriff: Endorsement
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department needs competent, professional leadership. It’s the third-largest local police agency in the nation and is still scarred by many years of scandal and...
View ArticleEndorsements for California’s June 7, 2022 primary election
Over the last two months, our editorial board has surveyed hundreds of candidates and conducted several dozen interviews in races across Southern California. Here are our endorsements, with select...
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