by jpitney | Sep 29, 2024 | California Politics, Housing, Local Government, Regulation
Miles Warner at The Santa Monica Daily Press: This week we found out officially, what many of us already know experientially, that Santa Monica is the most expensive city to conduct business in. Our academic neighbors to the East, Claremont McKenna College’s...
by jpitney | Sep 26, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Uncategorized
PEN America interviews Andrew DeVigal. Before joining the University of Oregon, DeVigal was an award-winning multimedia editor at The New York Times What role can local journalists play in the fight against disinformation, specifically as it relates to local...
by jpitney | Sep 4, 2024 | Business, California Politics, Local Government
From Kosmont-Rose Institute 2024 Cost of Doing Business Survey: Our analysis indicates that cities in Los Angeles County are collectively more expensive places to do business than cities in other parts of the region and also more expensive than the top destination...
by jpitney | Sep 2, 2024 | California Politics, Infrastruture, Local Government
At LAT, Steve Lopez on the failure of Los Angeles to fix its dilapidated sidewalks: The city still does handle sidewalk repairs if the service request is by or for someone who is disabled, but that program is nothing to cheer about. In 2016, under terms of a federal...
by jpitney | Aug 31, 2024 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Ryan Fonesca at LAT: A state bill with bipartisan support that aimed to throw a lifeline to California’s struggling news industry is no more. In place of the proposed “journalism usage fee” levied on Google and Meta annually to help fund local newsrooms, state...
by jpitney | Aug 12, 2024 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Mark Caro at Poynter: Tom Rosenstiel, professor of the practice at the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism, sees a potential bright side for local news organizations in regard to news fatigue. “Local publications exist in the same media...
