By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report A judge ruled earlier this month that Inglewood’s development agreement with Stan Kroenke’s Hollywood Park is void. The city of Inglewood now […]
The Spot That’s Never There: How Los Angeles Fails Its Disabled Residents One Stolen Parking Space at a Time
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | September 22, 2026 My uncle, Carlos Navarro, has lived in Los Angeles County for fifty years. He is a legal […]
The $25 Billion Transit System Nobody Is Riding: How Los Angeles Spent a Generation’s Worth of Sales Tax and Lost Its Riders Anyway
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | September 22, 2026 Los Angeles County voters have approved four separate sales tax measures to fund public transit since 1980 […]
“Nobody Was Minding the Shop” — Inside L.A.’s Homeless-Fraud Reckoning
By Jose Navarro, MBA | Financial Controller & Public Policy Analyst | San Diego, CA September 21, 2026 LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors had a blunt answer this week when […]
A Decade of Settlements: Why LA County Needs Tort Reform
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | LA County Affairs Los Angeles — Ten years of the county’s own litigation reports tell a story its Board of Supervisors […]
Los Angeles Opens a Second Straight Year Over Budget — Same Departments, Same Overtime
By Jose Navarro, MBA | The Navarro Report | California Affairs Los Angeles — The city closed out fiscal year 2025-26 the way it opened fiscal year 2026-27: over budget. […]
Who’s Minding LAHSA? Karen Bass Appointed Half Its Board — and the Fraud Scandal Broke Anyway
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | LA County | September 18, 2026 LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors this week charged three people in a $12 million fraud scheme running through […]
A Nightclub, a Bingo Hall, and the $24 Billion Question: Inside LA’s Homeless Fraud Raids
By Jose E. Navarro, MBA | San Diego | September 16, 2026 Federal agents in Kevlar vests descended on a Baldwin Hills home Wednesday morning and led away Michael Young, […]
The After-Action Report Grades LA County’s Fire Recovery. It Never Asks About the Claims Desk.
A 180-page review finds the county had no formal repopulation plan for the Eaton and Palisades fires. This outlet’s reporting all year says the harder bottleneck sits with insurers, not […]
Altadena, Again: A Fourth Wildfire Package, and the Enforcement Gap This Outlet Keeps Finding
Newsom’s newest survivor-protection bills are real relief on paper. Our reporting this year on insurer penalties and stalled deadlines raises the same question once more: who makes sure the promises […]