by jpitney | Aug 5, 2025 | California Politics, Journalism, Journalists, Los Angeles, Mass Media, Newspapers
Sara Fischer at Axios: New York Post Media Group, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., will launch a new, daily Los Angeles-based newspaper called “The California Post” in early 2026, the New York Post’s editor-in-chief Keith Poole told...
by jpitney | Aug 2, 2025 | California Politics, Los Angeles
Melody Patterson at LAT: State regulators, knowing that old transmission lines could set off wildfires, proposed a safety rule in 2001 that would have forced Edison and other utilities to remove abandoned lines unless they could prove they would use them in the...
by jpitney | Jul 29, 2025 | Los Angeles, Philanthropy
James R. Hagerty at WSJ: Wallis Annenberg had her whole life to be rich but only the last 23 years to give away large amounts of her family’s fortune. She donated to hundreds of causes, some of them surprising, and relished her role as a benefactor. Annenberg, the...
by jpitney | Apr 21, 2025 | California Politics, Local Government, Los Angeles
Grace Toohey at LAT: The fire “brought to the forefront the issues of us being unincorporated; in some ways it did put us at a disadvantage,” said Darlene Greene, a member of Altadena’s town council, which can pass along concerns or recommendations to Los Angeles...
by jpitney | Mar 20, 2025 | Budget, California Politics, Los Angeles
David Zahniser at LAT: L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.” City Administrative Officer...
