Re-opening celebration of El Patron Restaurant signals Altadena business recovery
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) Margarita "Maggie" Cortez stood beside El Patron Mexican Restaurant, 2555 Lake Avenue...
County’s new homeless agency stonewalls questions on Trump’s ‘Treatment First’ push
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) UPDATE, Aug. 26, 2026: Nine days after LACP's initial inquiry — and...
Avalon Gardens wins 30-year street fight, eyes $27M state grant
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) The Avalon Gardens Community Association delivered decades-overdue good news to residents Wednesday...
Los Angeles should take a serious look at ‘Treatment First’ to confront homelessness
By Stephen Witt Stephen Witt Part of the trouble with covering government and local politics in places where one party—Democratic...
This Woodland Hills ‘Treatment First’ center says government won’t show up
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) While the Trump administration last week touted a shift in treating homelessness...
LA County program becomes face of Trump’s rollout to treat homelessness
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) A homeless outreach program built and funded in Los Angeles County Supervisor...
HOPICS Connect Day draws hundreds to South LA, spotlights Vermont Galaxy’s free clinic
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) South Los Angeles residents — including families and single adults experiencing homelessness...
Asm. Rodriguez opens new Northeast Valley district office
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics (LACP) Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez (D-San Fernando, Pacoima, Sylmar, Arleta, Panorama City, Sun Valley,...
LA mayoral race collides with Palisades business recovery
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics Nearly two years after the fire that gutted Pacific Palisades' commercial corridor, the...
County Supes respond to rising homeless count
By Stephen Witt, Los Angeles County Politics If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But if it is broke —...
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