By Matthew Stieglitz This past holiday season was one of great difficulty for my family. Two weeks before Christmas, our matriarch, my Abuela, fell and broke her hip, marking the second time in four years this has happened to her. Despite being in excellent physical condition for an eighty-one year old, her surgery and subsequent [...]

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The LA Times reports that Congresswoman Linda Sanchez is replacing Rep. Zoe Lofgren as the ranking member of the House Ethics Committee. I think that this should be interesting. I find Linda Sanchez to be more on top of policy matters than her sister, Loretta. Back in June, Linda Sanchez made a statement about the [...]

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I will admit that I did not watch the President’s State of the Union address in its entirety yesterday, but I did catch bits and pieces of it. Overall, I thought it was a decent message and heavy on domestic policy. Of course, I realize that so much is in play in setting the President’s [...]

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Since we have been following the Los Angeles CD 14 race on the blog, I have kept an eye out for videos of the candidates. Today two videos caught my attention featuring the incumbent Jose Huizar. In the first clip, council member Huizar addresses the infamous “lists” that his staff compiled scoring community members dismissing [...]

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By Pablo Manriquez “[W]e are competing for the moment in order to earn and maintain a semblance of relevance,” Brian Solis writes. “For businesses struggling to gain traction through Likes, RT’s, comments, clicks, friend and follower counts, the moment for which we compete, never really comes. It is perpetual.” Competing for relevance is a good [...]

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Note: Even though the Martin Luther King holiday was on Monday, many festivities have continued throughout the week. By Melissa Beatriz Skolnick To some, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day may be nothing more than a day off from the hectic life of school, work, and the like.  Yet, it is important to remember the true [...]

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Since we have been covering the drama and fallout over the political scorecards kept by Los Angeles Council member Huizar’s office, I thought it would be worth sharing his response to these accusations and the publication of the actual lists. This comes from an e-mail sent out by the Huizar campaign today, which does acknowledge [...]

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In one of the more humorous stories about Los Angeles’s CD 14 race, the Los Angeles Times came out with this piece today about Councilman Jose Huizar building lists of friends, foes, and even buildings for priority and being worthy of his political influence within his district. So in using CLARTS funds that are supposed [...]

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