Zev Yaroslavsky - Los Angeles County Supervisor

Weekly Web Flash

Golden voice, golden man

For our Boys of Summer—the fading L.A. Dodgers—it’s almost time to sadly invoke that old bromide, “Wait ‘till next year.” But for... [Read more]

Third District Wire

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Social Services

Secret child-death records to be revealed

Los Angeles County’s top child welfare official—confronted with contradictions in her agency’s own records—vowed Tuesday to make public...

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Environment

Battle of the bags isn’t over

In the end, a ban wasn’t in the bag. Hopes of outlawing throwaway plastic shopping bags throughout California went bust Tuesday night when...

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Going Green

A farewell to lawns

Earlier this year, the Long Beach Water Department started a program to encourage its residents to destroy their grass lawns. It wasn’t part...

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Homelessness

Picturing a homeless woman’s world

It’s been nearly 18 months since nine homeless women picked up cameras and set out to tell the stories of their world. From Santa Monica to...

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Useful Links

Portia Sanders has been left at the altar again. Just days ago, she was downing Monster energy drinks and orchestrating the dizzying logistics of joining in holy matrimony an expected surge of gay and... [Read more]

Around the Third District

With more than 2 million constituents, the Third District is the most economically, ethnically and geographically diverse of Los Angeles County's five electoral districts. It spans eastward from the Pacific, across the Santa Monica Mountains and into Los Angeles' Westside, San Fernando Valley and parts of Hollywood. Zev has represented the district since 1994.