Rebecca Ellis covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. She was named a finalist for the 2022 Livingston Awards for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry.
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Nov. 29, 2023
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Nov. 22, 2023
Supervisor Janice Hahn said she was ‘outraged and disappointed’ that the L.A. County fire foundation kept taking donations despite its delinquent status.
Nov. 21, 2023
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Nov. 8, 2023
Landlords with older buildings in unincorporated L.A. County areas will be able to raise rents by no more than 4% through June under a motion approved Tuesday.
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