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4 days ago · (Via Los Angeles County Department of Public Works). The Board has been led by all women since Supervisor Holly Mitchell was elected to the Board in 2020 to replace Mark Ridley-Thomas. In the past, the sheer concentration of power in the Board and its lack of clear checks and balances earned the BOS the title: “the five little kings.”
4 days ago · In January 2023, former Los Angeles city council member Jose Huizar pleaded guilty to extorting $1.5 million from real estate developers seeking city approval for downtown projects between 2013 and 2018, the Los Angeles Times reported. Another former Los Angeles city council member, Mark Ridley-Thomas, was sentenced to 42 months in prison last ...
5 days ago · On Friday, a federal court judge in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer, denied Mark Ridley-Thomas’s motion to dismiss his guilty verdict that came forth from a jury in late March 2023. Ridley-Thomas’s defense had moved for a dismissal or else to be granted a new trial. But the court upheld the conviction... Read More
5 days ago · Californians completed more than 27 million online transactions in 2023, compared to 18.7 million in 2019. The expansion of online services is just one example of the DMV’s digital transformation under the Newsom Administration and Director Gordon’s leadership. The DMV also cut transaction times by two-thirds, removed obstacles so staff can ...
3 days ago · People wait in line to enter a California Department of Motor Vehicles office on May 8, 2020 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
4 days ago · The digitizing of the DMV experience could potentially reduce DMV office visits by 200,000 customers per month, or 2.4 million a year. “We don’t want our customers to have to wait for service ...
2 days ago · April 12th, 2023 by Lonce Lamonte in Jon Woods, Sim Hoffman. Mark Ridley-Thomas’ guilty verdict in Los Angeles in March 2023 was like Jon Woods’ guilty verdict in Santa Ana in August 2022. Both were for fraud and bribery. Ridley-Thomas was a highly successful and popular Los Angeles politician, and a recent City Councilman; and Woods was a ...
