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Los Angeles City Hall has been rocked by scandal after scandal, but now there’s momentum to reform city government.
Los Angeles County transitions to a new way of administering pre-arraignment justice that doesn’t use cash bail for most crimes.
Every drop of drinking water once passed through someone’s (or something’s) body. The point is to purify the stuff we drink no matter the source, rather than to seek never-defiled fantasy water.
For the sake of their party and the country, Republicans in choosing a new House speaker should seek a conciliator, not a chaos agent.
The best way to eliminate money bail while considering a defendant’s risk of flight or harm is to drastically shorten the time between arrest and arraignment.
