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Los Angeles Times23d
Mayor Karen Bass is looking vulnerable. But will anyone challenge her in 2026?
Mayor Karen ... with Bass searching for cuts to close a nearly $1-billion budget gap. Now, the first-term mayor is markedly more vulnerable. The chattering among the city’s political class ...
Karen Bass’ “State of the City” speech: A declaration of war on Los Angeles’ working class
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her 2025 State of the City address this week, unveiling a proposed budget that slashes ...
Karen Bass unveils her ‘very difficult budget’ for LA
The Los Angeles mayor kept an upbeat tone in her annual State of the City address, but her proposed budget offered a reality check.
The New York Times11d
Will L.A. Ever Forgive Its Mayor for Being Abroad When the Wildfires Hit?
Los Angeles is rebuilding, but new crises are mounting and Mayor Karen Bass has been haunted by her ... loomed in the background — her own political future as she runs for re-election next ...
Los Angeles Daily News8d
The city of Los Angeles brought this fiscal crisis on itself
after easily the most trying three months of her long political career, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass must know the worst numbers she faces: Nearly half of Angelenos view her “unfavorably ...
Washington Examiner9d
Karen Bass wants to weaken LAPD to fix a self-inflicted budget crisis
Los Angeles is such a poorly run city that Mayor Karen Bass has to weaken the city’s police department even further for budgetary purposes. Bass announced that her proposed budget would include ...
Yahoo8d
In Sacramento, Mayor Bass seeks state money to close nearly $1-billion budget gap
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, right, with City Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto at the State of the City address on Monday. (Carlin Stiehl/Los Angeles Times) ...