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Letter: ‘No’ vote on LA County tax hike about affordability, not party

LA Daily News 12 Feb 2026
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is a nonpartisan body, and this debate was about affordability, not party affiliation ... including La Verne Mayor Tim Hepburn, opposed this proposal.
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LA County is already taxed to the max

New York Post 12 Feb 2026
That’s the message the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors sent this week when they voted to propose a 0.5% sales tax. That would push sales taxes in LA County — already among the highest in the country — from 9.75% to 10.25%.
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LA County Supervisors reject expanding duration and scope of rent debt protection

LA Daily News 12 Feb 2026
The customers keep coming LA County declares a state of emergency due to immigration raids, citing ‘climate of fear’ LA County Supervisors to consider rental protections for families disrupted by ICE ...
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LA County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump administration health care cuts

Image Hastings Tribune 11 Feb 2026
LOS ANGELES — L.A. County voters will be asked this June to hike the sales tax rate by a half-cent to soften the blow of federal funding cuts on the region's public health system ... .
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9 inmate deaths already this year bring renewed scrutiny of LA County jail conditions

Image The Brunswick News 11 Feb 2026
LOS ANGELES — Nine people have died inside L.A. County jails so far this year, an alarming number for the Sheriff's Department as it continues to face a lawsuit from the state over the conditions in local lockups. Sheriff's Department ... .
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LA County supervisors direct creation of rebuild authority for fire areas

LA Daily News 11 Feb 2026
... aftermath of one of the worst disasters in LA County history,” Horvath and Barger wrote in their motion ... LA County opposes Trump order, rejects federal takeover of local permitting in fire zones.
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Fury as LA county faces extra tax hike on everything — as sole lawmaker votes ...

New York Post 11 Feb 2026
A new tax hike on residents that would spike the cost of almost everything — including shopping, dining and other everyday purchases across the county — was approved Tuesday by LA County Supervisors to head to voters.
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YGTBFKM: LA County Just Started Rent Relief Fund for Wildfire Victims and...People Avoiding ICE

Hot Air 11 Feb 2026
 LA COUNTY SCAM ALERT!. Broke LA County created a $30 million rent relief fund for wildfire & ICE raids victims ... - **LA County Emergency Rent Relief Program (ERRP)** — The referenced $30M ...
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Are voters in LA County willing to pay half-cent sales tax to fill healthcare gaps?

Daily Breeze 11 Feb 2026
LA County is working to approve a state bill to allow exemptions from the cap for cities ... LA County places half-cent healthcare sales tax on June ballot. Filing period for June election in LA County begins Monday.
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LA County places half-cent healthcare sales tax on June ballot

LA Daily News 10 Feb 2026
Filing period for June election in LA County begins Monday. Juvenile hall depopulation nearly complete but likely won’t hit goal, says LA County probation chief ... LA County Supervisors to consider rental protections for families disrupted by ICE raids.
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What’s closed for Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Feb. 12, in LA County

San Gabriel Valley Tribune 10 Feb 2026
Portrait of the 16th U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (Courtesy of the National Archives/Newsmakers) ... 12, 1809 in Kentucky ... Day in LA ... 16-19 in the LA area ... 12, 1809, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Hardin County (now LaRue County), Kentucky.
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Filing period for June election in LA County begins Monday

Press Telegram 10 Feb 2026
9, for all state and federal and most county offices in Los Angeles County for the June 2 primary ballot, including the open First District seat on the Board of Supervisors.
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Dangerous beast spotted for the first time in 100 years in LA County after being ...

New York Post 09 Feb 2026
A lone gray wolf padded quietly into Los Angeles County before dawn on Saturday — and made history ... Koehler in Lassen County ... A wolf has come to Los Angeles County for the first time in more than a century.
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