West Los Angeles Politics
ENDORSEMENT: Katy Young Yaroslavsky for L.A. Council District 5
In Los Angeles’s 5th Council District (CD 5), which makes up the parts of West L.A. that surround Beverly Hills and includes the Fairfax District, Cheviot Hills, and Westwood, voters have a choice between two excellent candidates vying to represent them in city hall. Both Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yebri are very bright attorneys with impressive track records of public and community service. Both claim deep roots in CD 5, and both support many of the same measures, even ones as specific as developing a stronger tree canopy for the district. It makes it difficult for our publication to choose a candidate to endorse for the November 8 election. However, there is a choice to be made, and we endorse Katy Young Yaroslavsky for the seat.
ENDORSEMENT: Los Angeles Voters Should Vote Yes on Measure ULA
California, and certainly the Greater Los Angeles Area, continues to face a staggering housing and homelessness crisis. Many attempts are underway to confront it, but funding for affordable housing is lacking and costs per unit continue to rise at rates anyone – including builders – finds staggering. There is something residents of the City of Los Angeles can do to help in a BIG way, and that’s supporting Measure ULA on the November 8 ballot. Measure ULA places a real estate transfer tax on sales of properties over $5 Million. It is estimated to raise an impressive $875 Million — possibly up to $923 Million — per year to, as the Yes on ULA campaign says:
ENDORSEMENTS: Our Recommendations on Santa Monica Ballot Measures
One can always count on a busy election season in Santa Monica. But even for that very active seaside town, nine local ballot measures are a lot to digest. The following are our recommendations (some earning more explanation than others).
ENDORSEMENTS: Fisch and Puza for Culver City Council
Culver City is changing, and for the better. Gone are the days when cranks like Steve Rose had a stranglehold on business and civic affairs, and the city tried to maintain a veneer of the sheer whiteness of decades past. The city is rich in diversity and is now more regularly electing diverse leaders. Its city council is taking a progressive tack in encouraging a lot of affordable housing development, making the city friendlier and safer for cyclists and pedestrians, adopting a rent control system, beginning to reimagine policing, ending dangerous oil drilling, and even working toward a policy on reparations for African Americans. Engaged students are fighting for their right to vote in city and school board elections, and have put the issue to voters this year.
ENDORSEMENT: Katy Young Yaroslavsky for L.A. Council District 5
In Los Angeles’s 5th Council District (CD 5), which makes up the parts of West L.A. that surround Beverly Hills and includes the Fairfax District, Cheviot Hills, and Westwood, voters have a choice between two excellent candidates vying to represent them in city hall. Both Katy Young Yaroslavsky and Sam Yebri are very bright attorneys with impressive track records of public and community service. Both claim deep roots in CD 5, and both support many of the same measures, even ones as specific as developing a stronger tree canopy for the district. It makes it difficult for our publication to choose a candidate to endorse for the November 8 election. However, there is a choice to be made, and we endorse Katy Young Yaroslavsky for the seat.
ENDORSEMENT: Los Angeles Voters Should Vote Yes on Measure ULA
California, and certainly the Greater Los Angeles Area, continues to face a staggering housing and homelessness crisis. Many attempts are underway to confront it, but funding for affordable housing is lacking and costs per unit continue to rise at rates anyone – including builders – finds staggering. There is something residents of the City of Los Angeles can do to help in a BIG way, and that’s supporting Measure ULA on the November 8 ballot. Measure ULA places a real estate transfer tax on sales of properties over $5 Million. It is estimated to raise an impressive $875 Million — possibly up to $923 Million — per year to, as the Yes on ULA campaign says:
ENDORSEMENTS: Our Recommendations on Santa Monica Ballot Measures
One can always count on a busy election season in Santa Monica. But even for that very active seaside town, nine local ballot measures are a lot to digest. The following are our recommendations (some earning more explanation than others).
ENDORSEMENTS: Fisch and Puza for Culver City Council
Culver City is changing, and for the better. Gone are the days when cranks like Steve Rose had a stranglehold on business and civic affairs, and the city tried to maintain a veneer of the sheer whiteness of decades past. The city is rich in diversity and is now more regularly electing diverse leaders. Its city council is taking a progressive tack in encouraging a lot of affordable housing development, making the city friendlier and safer for cyclists and pedestrians, adopting a rent control system, beginning to reimagine policing, ending dangerous oil drilling, and even working toward a policy on reparations for African Americans. Engaged students are fighting for their right to vote in city and school board elections, and have put the issue to voters this year.
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