Category: News

The Top-Two Primary That Could Send Two Democrats to November Is the Specific Reform That Produces Unintended Consequences From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Top-Two Primary That Could Send Two Democrats to November Is the Specific Reform That Produces Unintended Consequences The System LOS ANGELES — California’s top-two primary system, which sends the two candidates with the most votes to November regardless of party, produces the...

The Governing Mayor Is Being Tested Simultaneously by the Biggest Natural Disaster, the Most Complicated Budget, and the Hardest Reelection From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Governing Mayor Is Being Tested Simultaneously by the Biggest Natural Disaster, the Most Complicated Budget, and the Hardest Reelection The Simultaneous Tests LOS ANGELES — Karen Bass is managing three simultaneous governing and political challenges: the Palisades...

Karen Bass Proposes 510 Replacement Officers and $104 Million for Inside Safe; Nithya Raman Has Thoughts From Bohiney and The London Prat. Karen Bass Proposes 510 Replacement Officers and $104 Million for Inside Safe; Nithya Raman Has Thoughts The Budget LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass released her proposed budget of nearly $15 billion for Los Angeles, which includes: the hiring of 510 police officers to replace officers expected to leave the...

Maternity Ward Closures in Rural and Low-Income Areas Are Creating Healthcare Deserts for Pregnant Californians From Bohiney and The London Prat. Maternity Ward Closures in Rural and Low-Income Areas Are Creating Healthcare Deserts for Pregnant Californians The Trend LOS ANGELES — California hospitals are closing maternity wards at a rate that CalMatters is investigating as a significant healthcare access story. The closures are concentrated...

One Million Californians With State Driver’s Licenses Are Potentially Exposed by a State Database Sharing Plan From Bohiney and The London Prat. One Million Californians With State Driver’s Licenses Are Potentially Exposed by a State Database Sharing Plan The Issue LOS ANGELES — California has been issuing driver’s licenses to unauthorized immigrants under AB 60, which allows state residents regardless of immigration status to obtain...

The Billionaire’s Campaign Dwarfs All Rivals in a Race That CNN Debated on May 5 With a Very Different Funding Balance From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Billionaire’s Campaign Dwarfs All Rivals in a Race That CNN Debated on May 5 With a Very Different Funding Balance The Numbers LOS ANGELES — Tom Steyer has spent approximately $132 million on his California gubernatorial campaign, according to CalMatters reporting, a figure that...

The Race to Succeed Newsom Has Seven Democrats, One Wild Card, and $132 Million of Personal Spending From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Race to Succeed Newsom Has Seven Democrats, One Wild Card, and $132 Million of Personal Spending The Field LOS ANGELES — California’s 2026 gubernatorial primary has produced the specific wide-open field that emerges when a popular two-term governor cannot run again and no candidate has an obvious...

Newsom Reaffirmed Commitment at the Anniversary; Survivors, Advocates, and Data Offered the Complicated Report Card From Bohiney and The London Prat. Newsom Reaffirmed Commitment at the Anniversary; Survivors, Advocates, and Data Offered the Complicated Report Card The Anniversary LOS ANGELES — Governor Newsom, one year after the Palisades, Altadena, and Malibu fires swept through Los Angeles County, reaffirmed the state’s commitment to...

Legislature Passes Tax Reduction for Legal Cannabis as Illicit Market Continues to Dominate; Newsom to Sign or Veto From Bohiney and The London Prat. Legislature Passes Tax Reduction for Legal Cannabis as Illicit Market Continues to Dominate; Newsom to Sign or Veto The Bill SACRAMENTO — A California bill that would reverse a 25 percent tax increase on the state’s legal cannabis industry has passed the legislature and is heading to Governor...

First Crewed Moon Voyage Since Apollo Concludes Successfully in California Waters; State Is Pleased From Bohiney and The London Prat. First Crewed Moon Voyage Since Apollo Concludes Successfully in California Waters; State Is Pleased The Return OFF THE CALIFORNIA COAST — The Artemis II crew returned to Earth when their Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, concluding the first crewed mission to lunar...

The Governor Who Is Considering a Presidential Run Has Issued an AI Regulation Order That Could Be a National Template From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Governor Who Is Considering a Presidential Run Has Issued an AI Regulation Order That Could Be a National Template The Order SACRAMENTO — Governor Newsom issued an order requiring artificial intelligence companies operating in California to implement safety and privacy guardrails, adding...

The Tunnels That Would Move Water From the Sacramento Delta to Southern California Are Closer to Becoming Tunnels From Bohiney and The London Prat. The Tunnels That Would Move Water From the Sacramento Delta to Southern California Are Closer to Becoming Tunnels The Milestone SACRAMENTO — California’s Delta Conveyance Project, the infrastructure investment that would build tunnels to move water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta more...

Climate Prediction Center Notes Odds Favorable for El Nino Emergence; Surfers Have Already Booked November Off From Bohiney and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES — The Climate Prediction Center issued an El Nino Watch estimating a 61 percent probability of El Nino emergence between May and June and persistence through at least the end of 2026. Southern California received this information through the established response cycle: surfers elevated...

Star Wars Creator Museum Opens With All Forms of Visual Storytelling; Visitors Who Expected Star Wars Museum Will Be Pleasantly Surprised After Brief Disappointment From Bohiney and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES — The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art opens in Exposition Park in September 2026, housing what its founders describe as all forms of visual storytelling from painting, photography, comic art, illustration, and more, in a building that...

Long-Promised Airport Train to Connect Terminals to K Line After Opening at Time to Be Determined by Conditions Unspecified From Bohiney and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES — The LAX Automated People Mover is scheduled to open in 2026, with the Time Out Los Angeles timeline specified as maybe June, maybe later, which a project spokesperson described as more honest than the previous timelines and which travelers who have been told the system...

Refik Anadol Machine Creativity Museum Sets Up in Frank Gehry Building; Both Architect and AI Apparently Allergic to Right Angles From Bohiney and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES — DATALAND, described as the world first Museum of AI Arts, is set to open at The Grand LA in Frank Gehry downtown development, offering 25,000 square feet across five galleries of what its founders call machine creativity and what critics call the most interesting new...

Santa Fe Arts Company Sixth Location Brings Signature Maximalism to City That Did Not Previously Lack It From Bohiney and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES — Meow Wolf, the arts and entertainment company that began as a DIY art collective in Santa Fe in 2008 and has since opened immersive installations in Las Vegas, Denver, Dallas, and Houston, is opening its sixth location in West Los Angeles in 2026, transforming a former movie theater into what...

New Caltrans Analysis of Freeway Performance Reveals Findings That Every Driver in Los Angeles Already Knew Deeply and Personally LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — A new traffic performance analysis of Los Angeles freeway corridors has confirmed what the region’s 4.5 million daily freeway commuters have known for decades through the direct methodological approach of sitting in traffic: average speeds during peak hours on the I-405 South Bay segment...

Major Studios Tout AI Scriptwriting Tools as Efficiency Breakthrough; WGA Notes This Is Exactly What They Said Would Happen During the Strike HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA — Several major Hollywood studios announced this week that artificial intelligence tools have reached a threshold of capability allowing them to generate first-draft screenplay content, story outlines, and dialogue options at speeds that exceed what human writing teams produce, a...

City Council Votes 12-3 for Boyle Heights Mixed-Income Project; Original Applicants Have Moved, Aged Out, or Both LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — The Los Angeles City Council voted this week to approve a 93-unit mixed-income affordable housing development in Boyle Heights, concluding a permitting and entitlement process that began in 2017 and has outlasted two mayoral administrations, one housing crisis, one pandemic, three council district maps,...

Elevated Fire Risk, Low Humidity, and Gusty Santa Ana Winds Forecast; Officials Remind Public to Have an Evacuation Plan, Public Notes It Has Had Same Plan Since 2017 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA — The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for portions of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, citing low relative humidity, gusty northeast winds, and critically dry vegetation conditions that create elevated wildfire risk, prompting the...

Annual Race Traverses 26.2 Miles of Greater Los Angeles; Several Miles Traversed by People Who Did Not Know Today Was the Day Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES, CA — Organizers of the Los Angeles Marathon confirmed this week that the race’s traditional route will once again pass through several neighborhoods whose residents were not expecting it, including at least three blocks of East Hollywood where a man named...

Reptile Makes Break for Freedom During Structure Fire; Fire Department Confirms It Was, in Fact, Moving Quite Fast Under the Circumstances Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. FULLERTON, CA — A tortoise that escaped from a burning shed in Fullerton was described by Orange County Fire Authority officials as “quick-moving,” a characterization that has prompted gentle debate among the herpetological community about what...

High-Speed Pursuit Concludes With Suspect’s Spontaneous Choreography Performance; Officers Unsure of Protocol Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. LOS ANGELES, CA — A vehicle pursuit that began in the Westlake District Tuesday evening concluded when the driver stopped his car, exited the vehicle, and began dancing on the sidewalk before officers could approach, a development that LAPD spokesperson Sergeant Maria Dominguez...

Newsom Administration Announces Multi-Billion Dollar Shortfall That Analysts Say Was “Predictable” and Budget Office Says Was “Dynamic” Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. SACRAMENTO, CA — Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration announced this week a revised state budget projection showing a multi-billion dollar shortfall for the current fiscal year, a development that the governor’s office described as “a...

Jaafar Jackson Plays Uncle in Film Tracking King of Pop’s Early Career; Film Reportedly “Accurate,” “Emotional,” and “Very Long” Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Michael Jackson biopic, starring Jaafar Jackson — Michael’s nephew — as the King of Pop and tracking the performer’s life from his Jackson 5 years through his early solo career, is projecting one of the biggest musical biopic...

60,000-Streetlight Repair Pledge Now Officially A Campaign Mood Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the City of Hot Takes and Hotter Sidewalks. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In a strategic pivot her aides described as “thematically appropriate,” Mayor Karen Bass formally launched her 2026 re-election campaign at a news conference held inside one of the 60,000 broken streetlights her administration has pledged to repair, a...

Self-Perpetuating: Vibes Up, Spending Up, Tax Up, Vibes Up Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the City of Hot Takes and Hotter Sidewalks. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In what tax analysts described as “an aspirational accounting maneuver,” Mayor Karen Bass’s $14.9 billion Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget contains an $847 million revenue line described in the budget book as Vibes-Based Sales Tax, a category that, on closer...

Mandatory Daylight Saving, Erewhon As Essential Infrastructure Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the City of Hot Takes and Hotter Sidewalks. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Reality television veteran and current mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt today unveiled a comprehensive 17-point public-safety platform, all 17 points of which involve, in one form or another, “vibes.” The platform, titled The Pratt Doctrine: Pratt...

FilmLA Concedes The Citation Is Eligible For Every Credit Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the City of Hot Takes and Hotter Sidewalks. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Mayor Karen Bass’s newly unveiled pilot program to support film productions across Los Angeles has reportedly received its first qualifying application: a $14 million single-take feature film consisting entirely of a Mini Cooper getting a parking ticket on...

Sub-Brands Include Inside Tonight And Inside Until The Hotel Contract Expires Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the City of Hot Takes and Hotter Sidewalks. KOREATOWN, Los Angeles — Mayor Karen Bass announced today that the city’s Inside Safe homelessness initiative will be officially renamed Inside Sometimes, in what a senior City Hall official described as “a more honest brand identity that better reflects...

New Analysis Confirms Commuters Spend 119 Hours Per Year Not Moving; Resolution Passed to Study Moving Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LA Traffic Worst in America for 17th Year Running; Solution Study Approved in 45-Minute Meeting LOS ANGELES, CA — A new traffic analysis confirms Los Angeles drivers spend an average of 119 hours per year sitting in traffic, retaining the city’s position as America’s most congested urban area for the...

Permitting, Soil Tests, Insurance Disputes, and Contractor Backlogs Combine to Create Timeline That Doesn’t Match Any Campaign Promise Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LA Wildfire Rebuild Moving Slower Than the Fire That Created the Need LOS ANGELES, CA — The rebuilding effort following January 2026’s wildfires, which destroyed thousands of homes across Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and surrounding communities, is proceeding at a pace...

The Water Recycling Programme That Will Supply 30% of LA’s Water by 2035 Has Excellent Science and a Marketing Problem Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LA’s Toilet-to-Tap Water Future: The Science Is Sound, the Branding Is Challenging LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is implementing an advanced water recycling programme that will take treated wastewater, purify it through a multi-stage process that...

The City’s Relationship With Championship Sports Is Enthusiastic, Specific, and Occasionally Expensive Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat The Dodgers Won and Los Angeles Expressed Its Feelings About This LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series and Los Angeles celebrated with the specific combination of genuine collective joy, commercial district window smashing, and at least one vehicle fire that characterizes the...

City That Cannot House Its Residents Prepares to Host World Event Where Parking Is Additional Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LA 2028 Olympics Tickets Expensive Now, Resale Launching 2027 to Make Them More So LOS ANGELES, CA — Olympic tickets for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, not yet released to the general public, are already described by analysts as “priced for a demographic that does not include most Angelenos,” a concern that...

Mediator Confirms the Approach Is to Make Things More Expensive Until the Demand for Working in Hollywood Has Been Sufficiently Chastened Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat LOS ANGELES — A confidential LA County mediator handling the latest round of Hollywood production-crew negotiations has confirmed that the county adopted the Bank of England rate-rise methodology in February, in what the mediator described as the most analytically...

District Confirms Children Asking Why Mum Mortgage Went Up But Her Savings Did Not, District Has No Good Answer Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District has confirmed that, beginning the second week of May, all third-grade classrooms across the district will be required to deliver a 25-minute curriculum module on UK monetary policy, on the grounds that the Bank of England recent rate rise was...

Sunset Boulevard Office Reports Unannounced Drop-In From British Central Banker, Description of Subsequent Conversation Withheld Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat BEVERLY HILLS, CA — A mortgage broker on Sunset Boulevard reported Tuesday morning that Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, made an unannounced visit to her office Monday afternoon, and that the broker has, since the visit, been unable to stop crying. The Visit The...

City Hall Confirms the Approach Is Modeled Directly on the Bank of England Principle of Spending Where the Demand Is Already Cooled Reading: Bohiney | The London Prat LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass announced Friday a fresh $100 million capital allocation to the LA Memorial Coliseum ahead of the LA28 Olympic Games, alongside a confirmed $0 allocation to sidewalk repair across the same fiscal year, citing what her office described as...

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration Attempt To Redirect Funds; State Celebrates Victory While Counties Line Up For Audits Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LOS ANGELES, CA — California scored a federal court victory this week that prevents the Trump administration from redirecting homelessness funding from permanent housing programs to temporary shelters and sober living facilities, a win that state officials celebrated and that county...

Measure A Approved By Voters, Goes Into Effect, Generates Revenue, Produces Familiar Debate About Whether Revenue Will Fix The Problem Or Simply Fund The Discussion Of The Problem Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA — Measure A, the Los Angeles County quarter-percent sales tax increase approved by voters in November to fund homeless services, went into effect in the new year and began generating revenue for the Los...

State Of The City Address Covers World Cup, Olympics, Fire Recovery, And The Particular Challenge Of Delivering A Vision Speech In A Year When The Vision Is Competing With Reality Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat EXPOSITION PARK, LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass delivered her 2026 State of the City address outside the LA Memorial Coliseum, declaring that Los Angeles would “show the nation and the world we are the greatest city on earth”...

Insurance Companies Weigh Business Case For Continuing To Offer Coverage In Region Where Risk Is No Longer Theoretical Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat LOS ANGELES, CA — The California home insurance market, which was already under stress before the January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires, has entered a phase that industry analysts describe as “a fundamental recalibration of risk appetite” and that homeowners describe as “I cannot get...

Canine Allegedly Had Strong Opinions On Measure R, Attorney Argues He Was Promised Treats SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA — An Orange County woman has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge after registering her dog to vote, an act she described as “political performance art” designed to highlight the lack of voter ID requirements in California. The dog, a seven-year-old Labrador-retriever mix named Senator Beans, has reportedly refused to accept...

Auditors Confused By Ledgers That Appear To Be Mostly Guesses LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) has been found to have a “significant” problem with inaccurate financial statements, according to an external audit released this week, a finding that LAHSA officials have acknowledged with a phrase that is both technically true and morally catastrophic: “We are doing our best.” The audit, reviewed by LAist,...

Policy Targets Phones And iPads, Makes No Mention Of The District Computer That Crashes Every Tuesday LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District Board has voted in principle to limit screen time for students during the school day, restricting when and how they can use district-issued iPads, laptops, and personal phones. The policy has been welcomed by parents, celebrated by child-development experts, and quietly protested by...