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Attendees wear "Billionaire Tax Now" shirts during a campaign kickoff event for the California Billionaire Tax Act at The Wiltern in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. An influential union has introduced a ballot initiative to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaire wealth, as a political spending committee backed by Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and others will support three different voter initiatives that would limit and restrict the creation of new taxes in the state. Photographer: Tim Rue/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Editorial: Vote no on Prop. 40. It ignores education, housing and safety

The reality is that one-time taxes create a fiscal cliff, which leads to new and additional taxes when the money runs out.

Los Angeles, CA - February 26: New resident Miles Templeman, who was formerly unhoused and living in encampments, shows off his room key during a "Welcome Home" celebration for 27 people who successfully transitioned from encampments to apartments within a matter of weeks or months, while participating in LA County's Pathway Home program at The Dalton apartment complex in Los Angeles Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. After years living in tents or RVs in unincorporated Lennox, Walnut Park and Firestone Park, as well as in the cities of Hawthorne and Lynwood, they recently moved into master-leased co-living units at The Dalton apartment complex. Supervisor Holly Mitchell will provide welcome remarks, and L.A. Care Health Plan and Health Net will sponsor a luncheon for the Pathway Home participants who are new tenants at The Dalton. Pathway Home is a full-circle solution that brings people off the streets into immediately available interim housing accompanied by a suite of supportive services and, ultimately, into safe, permanent homes. It is a critical component of LA County's comprehensive response to the local emergency on homelessness adopted by the Board of Supervisors in 2023. LA County partnered with the nonprofit service providers PATH and St. Joseph Center to assist Pathway Home clients during their stay in interim and permanent housing, respectively. LA County also worked with the largest local managed care programs, L.A. Care Health Plan and Health Net, to secure Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) funding that enabled the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority to master lease The Dalton. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
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Editorial: To understand homelessness, listen to homeless people. Here’s what I learned

LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 07: Los Angeles City sanitation workers conducted a large homeless encampment cleanup in Venice Wednesday. Described by councilwoman Traci Park's office as a "beautification" project that will be followed by new parkway plantings, the cleanup focused on tents that lined S. Venice Boulevard between Pacific and Dell avenues. A spokeswoman for the council office said all 38 people living in the encampment had been offered housing. But several people in the camp said they planned to move to nearby streets. 200 block of S. Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
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Editorial: Stop finding ways to kill the Venice Dell homeless housing project and get it built instead

MONTROSE, CA - SEPTEMBER 9: An adult black bear walks through a residential neighborhood on September 9, 2012 in Montrose, California. The bear was first seen walking on the 210 freeway, which was subsequently closed for a short time, before moving further into the city. Bears and other wildlife are drawn to the cities that line the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles in search of water, pet food and trash left out by residents. Some residents reportedly feed the bears bacon and other food, a practice strongly condemned by wildlife officials. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
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Editorial: For California towns with a bear problem, using dogs to hunt is no solution

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 22: People wait in line during a give-a-way from a food bank at Unity Fellowship of Christ Church on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA. Across L.A. County, food banks are feeling the crunch of inflation, rising commodity and food prices, and other economic woes. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
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Editorial: Keeping at-risk residents from losing their housing will be a key to solving homelessness

Cyclist in new bike lane. MOVE Culver City is a new initiative that reconfigures pedestrian, traffic, bus, and bicycle lanes in downtown Culver City to reduce congestion and emissions. Los Angeles, California, USA. (Photo by: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Editorial: Culver City, don’t roll back your ambitious safe street redesign

Camille Pissarro painted this view of a street on a rainy day in 1897.
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Editorial: Finally, the Supreme Court can help a California family get back art stolen by Nazis

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