Which Way, L.A.?
Is It Time to Reform LA Parking Fines?
Parking tickets provided $161 million in revenue last year for the Los Angeles. As City Hall studies the issue, will voters get a chance to decide?
By Warren Olney • • 28m ListenParking tickets provided $161 million in revenue last year for the City of Los Angeles. The average cost of a parking ticket was $68. Is that too much -- or not enough -- to keep business and traffic flowing? As City Hall studies the issue, will voters get a chance to decide? Also, the State Senate’s new leader promises to restore public trust in an era of rampant corruption. We talk with Kevin de León of Los Angeles. Plus, hard work in the strawberry fields and a language nobody else can understand.
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3 storiesNew President Pro Tem of the California State Senate
The California State Senate has been rocked with scandal this year. Roderick Wright of Inglewood was convicted of perjury. Leland Yee of San Francisco is under federal indictment for smuggling weapons. Ron Calderón of Los Angeles faces corruption and bribery charges.
Read the story7 minDoes Parking Punishment Fit the Crime?
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says his office is working with "stakeholders" to address frustrations about parking citations, which now average $68 a ticket and provided $161 million last year to the city's general fund.
Read the story15 minIndigenous Farm Workers Suffer from Lack of Mental Health Services
In the strawberry fields near Oxnard, workers from remote parts of Mexico and Central America toil at some of the hardest jobs in California agriculture. Not only are they separated from their families, they're further isolated by language. They don't speak English or Spanish, but a very different, tonal language called Mixteco.
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