Ellen Dent approached a microphone outdoors the Farmer John meatpacking plant in Vernon on Thursday evening with a shocked look on her face. It was the final official week of enterprise for the enduring facility. Farmer John’s mum or dad firm, Smithfield Meals, maintained that the closure was necessary due …

Kevin de León has began his 2023 simply the way in which he desires: slithering his approach again to a way of normalcy. He’s exhibiting as much as Metropolis Council conferences and posting updates on social media as if the final 2 1/2 months of final yr didn’t occur — …

It has been a January of vigils for California. For the Central Valley city of Goshen, after gunmen killed six members of a family, together with a 16-year-old mom and her toddler son. For Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed at a dance studio simply hours after the town’s …

When news broke this week that former Los Angeles Councilmember Jose Huizar was going to plead guilty to federal racketeering charges for his role in a corruption scandal that rocked Los Angeles politics, I immediately thought of “American Me.” No, not the overwrought Edward James Olmos movie about the origins …

The fluorescent lights were bright and stark in the barren office near John Wayne Airport in Irvine where I met LA Weekly publisher Brian Calle. It felt like a morgue because it was: Before us was the corpse of my journalism past. Spread out on the floor were boxes containing …

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee sure pulled out all the proverbial stops this week in letting the world know that In-N-Out plans to open a corporate office and restaurants in his state by 2026. The recently reelected governor claimed in a press release that his state’s “unmatched business climate, skilled workforce …

My umbrella was wide and sturdy, my rain slicker insulated and as yellow as a Minion. I wore thick Dickies and my good pair of Doc Martens. It didn’t matter. Just minutes after I stepped out of my Yukon to walk around Parque de los Niños in Placentia’s Atwood barrio …

Pancho Villa was the primary Mexican legend to vanish — stolen at midnight, discovered by Los Angeles law enforcement officials in somebody’s yard, then pilfered as soon as extra and by no means seen once more. Different heroes slowly vanished. Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza, who gained the Battle of Puebla that …

Till I joined The Instances 4 years in the past, I cared as a lot about Los Angeles politics as I did the Peoria Metropolis Council. I knew the largest names, after all — Bradley, Gates, Yaroslavsky, Garcetti, even Joel Wachs. They had been inescapable, broadcast to my residence each …

Two years in the past, my column guessing how 2021 would turn out went about in addition to former Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez sitting down for a Oaxacan meal at Guelaguetza. Not a single one in all my predictions was proper. I tried again for 2022, and wouldn’t …