The most thankless gig in L.A. city government
Los Angeles County provides public health services for the City of Los Angeles, yet the city has a Health Commission that is largely ignored for being redundant.
Governance
Governance covers the practical structures of our democratic system. There is no perfect form that suits every government and every era. Changing governance structures is one way to attempt to fix inefficiences or other shortcomings that separate people from the officials they choose to represent and lead them.
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Tell truer stories about L.A. County's past and present
The county has provided the Governance Reform Task Force with a false history, which threatens to produce unsound policy choices.
What California can learn from L.A.’s hot mess era of governmental reforms
Los Angeles County moved fast and made mistakes but seems to be getting the government reform job done. L.A. city studied up a storm and still can't make a decision.
Even a strong mayor can't overcome a weak city
Los Angeles mayors are cat-herders, not thumb-breakers. They lead a city that must share power with the county. Their choice is to "lock arms" and lead together, or fail.
Supervisors to take up ethics proposal; task force frustrated in quest for independent counsel
It turns out that you can't create an independent Ethics Commission, or even talk about one, if you don't get to pick your own lawyer.
Ethics reform effort spotlights county dysfunction, shortens tempers
Measure G promised Los Angeles County voters an independent Ethics Commission. County culture, and the county Charter, got in the way.
LA County repealed its own justice reforms
Measure J makes L.A. County stand apart. Come to think of it, so does Measure G, which threatens to cancel out Measure J.
Why is Karen Bass getting so much blame for the LA fires but county supervisors so little?
The January 2025 fires torched Mayor Karen Bass' political career, but left the Los Angeles County supervisors politically unsinged. Why?