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Headlines: Anti-LGBT+ Hate Crime In Pasadena; Imagining L.A. Without Traffic

Headlines: Protest at West L.A. Veterans Affairs Campus; Boosters Available For Angelenos 50 and Up

Headlines: Venice’s Smallest Home Selling For $1.4 Million; Russian Asylum Seekers Secretly Admitted To U.S.

Headlines: El Salvador’s Deadliest Day in 30 Years; Dangerous Chemicals Found in Your Fast Food Wrappers

<p>One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.</p>


Hadley Tomicki

Mexico

Guerrero, Maseca, and Mission Tortilla Brands Are ‘Defying Demands For Exit’ By Continuing to Sell in Russia

Teddy's Red Tacos. Photo from L.A. TACO archives.

Headlines: Teddy’s Red Tacos Helps Save Local Mole Legend; Second Hold Put on Garcetti’s India Ambassadorship

Headlines: First Latina On California Supreme Court Confirmed; Armed Man Challenges Mike Tyson in Hollywood

Headlines: Jay-Z Criticized For Chateau Marmont Oscar Party; L.A.’s Air Is ‘The Worst’ in U.S.

<p>Lexis-Olivier Ray is an award-winning staff investigative reporter for L.A. TACO known for holding powerful people in Los Angeles accountable and his reporting on Los Angeles culture. As well as an artist and filmmaker. In 2022, the Society of Professional Journalists&#8217; Los Angeles chapter named Ray one of their &#8220;distinguished journalists.&#8221; In 2023, Ray won a second place Anthem Award in their Health Innovation category for a texting service geared towards the unhoused community and service providers that he launched in 2021 with L.A. TACO and Subtext. Ray was a 2020 USC Center For Health Journalism (CHJ) Data Fellow. As well as a 2022 CHJ Impact Fellow. As a freelancer, Ray has contributed to the L.A. Times, Men&#8217;s Health Magazine, KCET and SFGATE.</p>


Lexis-Olivier Ray

Update: At The Peak of The Defund Era, L.A. Received $600 million in COVID Relief, Half Went to LAPD

Headlines: The Food Vendors Serving Corcoran State Prison; Sinkhole Opens in Hollywood Hills