Special Assistant to City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
Special assistant to Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich
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David Berger
Guest
FROM David Berger
Which Way, L.A.?
Progress on the Medical Marijuana Ordinance Oakland and San Francisco tightly regulate sales of medical marijuana. So does West Hollywood, where the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department says four legal dispensaries are free of crime and neighbors are not complaining. Los Angeles is another story, and today a joint city council committee -- no pun intended, took another stab at controlling an estimated 1000 dispensaries .
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Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?