Noah Goldberg covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked on its breaking news team, where he helped cover the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires and their aftermath as well as the 2023 Monterey Park mass shooting. He’s also written an array of offbeat enterprise stories, from unraveling the bankruptcy proceedings surrounding the Kanye West hype house to detailing L.A.’s most expensive family feud, and even had a front-row seat to a staged murder-for-hire plot before federal agents were involved. Before joining The Times in 2022, Goldberg worked in New York City as the Brooklyn courts reporter for the New York Daily News and as the criminal justice reporter for the Brooklyn Eagle. After spending his early years in New York, Goldberg grew up in Los Angeles, where he remained a die-hard Yankees fan. He graduated from Vassar College.
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The left-wing group held a meeting Monday evening to decide whether to allow the local Los Angeles DSA chapter’s endorsement of the council member to stand.
Caruso said that he feared Raman would turn the LAPD into a “a laboratory for risky DSA social experimentation.”
Democratic socialists in L.A. and around the country are debating whether to rescind the DSA’s endorsement of Nithya Raman for L.A. mayor.
Nithya Raman’s husband, Vali Chandrasekaran, wrote for the hit shows ‘Modern Family’ and ’30 Rock.’ The Harvard grad ‘loves the city more than me,’ Raman says.
Nithya Raman hasn’t been endorsed by any of her City Council colleagues. But City Controller Kenneth Mejia is making up for that.
Bass portrayed Raman as someone who isn’t ready to lead the city, while Raman described the mayor as being ‘missing in action’ during fires in Pacific Palisades and Boyle Heights.
Tuesday’s televised debate could be the last time Raman and Bass go head-to-head before the Nov. 3 election.
The LAPD’s officer union will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the firefighters’ union.
Bass’ campaign accused Raman her of skipping a Jewish Heritage Month event to appear on Hasan Piker’s livestream; Raman’s camp says the Bass campaign is spreading misinformation.