KCRW's LA Observed
LA Observed covers the week's top stories in LA media, politics and culture, sharing breaking news when it's available and tying up loose ends on the topics that Angelenos have been discussing all week.
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More Controversy at LA Sheriff's Department
There's more controversy centered on the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department ...
There's more controversy centered on the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department today, after 10 employees were fired over the weekend following an investigation into the treatment of an inmate at the LA County Jail Inmate Reception Center.
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Minions Take Over the LA Times Masthead
Sunday's take-over of the LA Times masthead by Despicable Me's ...
Sunday's take-over of the LA Times masthead by Despicable Me's minions raises questions about the editorial wall that separates journalism from advertising.
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Water-Rights Holders versus the State
The ongoing drought is pitting the state against local water ...
The ongoing drought is pitting the state against local water districts in the fight over water rights. And it?s raising awareness of a system of assigning those rights that goes back well over a century, in some cases.
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Calls for Due Process for Teacher Rafe Esquith
Parents at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Koreatown are upset ...
Parents at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School in Koreatown are upset that a popular teacher has been benched by the LA Unified School District. Something he said in reference to Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn got him into some hot water.
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Remembering LA Times Editor John Carroll
Former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll passed away over ...
Former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll passed away over the weekend from a rare neurological disorder. He was 73.
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Protests over Ezell Ford Shooting
A small group of protestors as set up camp outside ...
A small group of protestors as set up camp outside of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's house in Hancock Park, after reports that the LAPD has decided that two officers were justified in shooting a 25 year old African-American Ezell Ford last summer.
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Allegations of Corruption in the City of Industry
The City of Industry is holding its first council election ...
The City of Industry is holding its first council election in 17 years tomorrow. There's been almost no campaigning, and there are only 125 registered voters.
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On Memorial Day, Thousands of Flags Adorn Veterans Cemetery
On Memorial Day every year, the Los Angeles National Cemetery ...
On Memorial Day every year, the Los Angeles National Cemetery features red and blue with a tradition of American flag planting next to every gravestone.
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Backroom Dealings and the Minimum Wage
Workers today marched outside City Hall to call for a ...
Workers today marched outside City Hall to call for a new bureau for fighting wage theft. This, as the full LA City Council is expected tomorrow to debate and perhaps vote on asking the City Attorney to draw up an official ordinance to be voted on that,
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Are New Yorkers Jealous of LA?
In an article published in The New York Times over ...
In an article published in The New York Times over the weekend, the newspaper reported that Los Angeles is "widely acknowledged to have become strikingly more cosmopolitan in recent years."
