David Zahniser
Staff Writer and Reporter at Los Angeles Times
L.A. Times reporter covering Los Angeles City Hall and other L.A.-related things. Ex-L.A. Weekly, Ex-Daily Breeze, ex cetera
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3 days ago |
latimes.com | David Zahniser |Doug Smith
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass won’t be called as a witness in a multi-day federal court hearing that could determine whether the city’s homelessness programs are placed in receivership. Matthew Umhofer, an attorney for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, told U.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Tuesday that he and his legal team were withdrawing subpoenas issued in recent weeks to Bass and City Councilmembers Monica Rodriguez and Traci Park.
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6 days ago |
latimes.com | Rebecca Ellis |David Zahniser
Soon, the most powerful Los Angeles County politician won’t be the mayor of L.A. It won’t be a county supervisor. It will be the elected chief executive. “It’s probably going to be the second most powerful position in the state next to the governor,” said former West Covina Mayor Brian Calderón Tabatabai, one of 13 people now tasked with deciding just how much power should come with the post.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | David Zahniser |Suhauna Hussain
A coalition of airlines, hotels and concession companies at Los Angeles International Airport filed paperwork Thursday to force a citywide vote on a new ordinance of hotel and airport workers to $30 per hour by 2028. The group, known as the L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress, is hoping to persuade voters to repeal the ordinance. But first, the alliance would need to gather about 93,000 signatures within 30 days to qualify the measure for the ballot in an upcoming election.
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1 week ago |
gazettextra.com | David Zahniser
LOS ANGELES - It was the first and possibly the most dramatic act by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she took office: declaring a city emergency on homelessness. That move, backed by the City Council, gave Bass the power to award no-bid contracts to nonprofit groups and to rent hotels and motels for interim homeless housing. It also allowed Bass to waive regulations limiting the size and scale of certain types of affordable housing. Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.
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1 week ago |
thederrick.com | David Zahniser
LOS ANGELES – It was the first and possibly the most dramatic act by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she took office: declaring a city emergency on homelessness. That move, backed by the City Council, gave Bass the power to award no-bid contracts to nonprofit groups and to rent hotels and motels for interim homeless housing. It also allowed Bass to waive regulations limiting the size and scale of certain types of affordable housing.
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