A former congressional staffer was found guilty on Thursday March 1, of federal extortion and bribery charges for taking $5,000 with bogus promises of helping to prevent the closure of an illegal Compton marijuana dispensary.
Congresswoman Janice Hahn (CA-44) recently voted against a bill that would dismantle the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood. The legislation is the 62nd attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the 11th time in the 114th Congress alone to disrupt women’s access to affordable health care. “It may be a new year but things don’t feel different here in Congress. The legislation we are voting on today is much of what we have seen before – the same old radical attacks on women’s access to health care and on the working families who finally have affordable health
The Watts Riots took place fifty years ago, but I remember them vividly. I was thirteen years old, and on the morning of August 12, 1965, I woke up at Pepperdine University where I stayed the night for church camp. At the time, Pepperdine was still located at the old campus on 79th and Vermont in the heart of South Los Angeles. We turned on the morning news, and I heard the anchor say that riots had broken out in Watts, a predominantly black neighborhood, and that County Supervisor Kenny Hahn, my father, had been attacked in his vehicle. That