Tag: Los Angeles

L.A. mayor not rethinking ‘sanctuary city’ policy

Sean Higgins · July 15, 2015 8:01 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, joins members of the City Council and community leaders as he signs into law an ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The ordinance makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LA County balking at matching city’s $15 minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 25, 2015 3:25 pm

President Obama made a comment suggesting a preoccupation with his dwindling time in the White House, and in later remarks, his legacy. (AP Photo)

Obama’s fundraising Freudian slip

Susan Crabtree · June 19, 2015 12:05 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, joins members of the City Council and community leaders in a photo after he signed into law an ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, in at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Los Angeles, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The ordinance makes Los Angeles the largest city in the U.S. to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

LA’s new $15 minimum wage could cost county residents $30m annually

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 4:01 am

LA mayor says no exceptions to minimum wage

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2015 4:01 am

Workers react as the Los Angeles City Council votes 13-1 to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020, but a second vote is required for final approval because the tally was not unanimous, in Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (AP Photo)Â

LA City Council rebuffs unions on exception to $15 wage, for now

Sean Higgins · June 4, 2015 7:56 pm

Supporters applaud during the minimum wage increase vote as the Los Angeles City Council votes to raise the minimum wage in the city to $15 an hour by 2020, making it the largest city in the nation to do so, in Los Angeles Tuesday, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes )

Minimum wage for thee, but not for me, say L.A. unions

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

The organized labor groups' demand has provoked anger from other supporters of the higher wage and charges of hypocrisy from business groups and their allies who have opposed the increase. (AP Photo)Â

L.A. unions accused of hypocrisy in minimum wage push

Sean Higgins · May 28, 2015 10:39 pm

Whenever politicians are considering an intervention in the economy, you should always ask "who benefits from this increase in government?" (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

L.A. proves it: Minimum-wage hikes are a protection racket for labor unions

Timothy P. Carney · May 27, 2015 6:57 pm

Laphonza Butler, President of SEIU ULTCW, the United Long Term Care Workers' Union, far left, joins workers demanding the Los Angeles City Council to vote to raise the minimum wage Tuesday, May 19, 2015, in Los Angeles. The city council gave initial approval Tuesday to raising minimum pay in the nation's second-largest city to $15 an hour by 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes )

Los Angeles raises minimum wage to $15

Kelly Cohen · May 20, 2015 3:02 pm

Beltway Confidential

Another rich celebrity takes a ‘challenge’ to live like a normal person

Ashe Schow · April 23, 2015 7:47 pm

BeatingÂ Democratic frontrunner Hillary ClintonÂ to Los Angeles now may be what does -- or does not -- push O'Malley to launch a presidential campaign. (AP Photo)Â

Martin O’Malley heads to Hollywood with 2016 in mind

Kelly Cohen · April 15, 2015 5:55 pm