NewsConference

One year after taking the oath of office, Mayor Eric Garcetti declined to give himself a letter grade for his performance, saying instead that with crime down and employment up the city of Los Angeles is “headed in the right direction.”

With less than three weeks until California’s June 3 gubernatorial election, two GOP candidates are locked in a fight to unseat incumbent democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, who is making a pitch for an unprecedented fourth term as the chief executive of America’s most populous state.

University of California President Janet Napolitano said she has been unfairly criticized for the number of immigration deportations that took place while she was secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he “expected something stronger” from his police chief in disciplining eight Los Angeles police officers in the shooting of two women a year ago in Torrance.

Los Angeles Billionaire developer Rick Caruso, once considered a candidate for mayor of Los Angeles, gives the man who ended up getting the job high marks for his first few months in office.

The leader of the California State Senate says “he will be damned” if the scandal involving Montebello Senator Ronald Calderon taints the reputation of the California legislature.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, an early backer of then-Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary, says he hopes to use that relationship to bring federal dollars to his city.

Referring to it as the “cesspool of this community” the ACLU of Southern California re-stated its call for the removal of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca as head of the massive Los Angeles County jail.

Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution, says the powers involved in the Chicago teacher-strike discussions need to change if anything is to be accomplished.