Noah Goldberg
@Noah__Goldberg
City Hall reporter for @LATimes | [email protected]
New beat alert: Starting today I will be covering Los Angeles City Hall for the @latimes. If you work in or around city government, please reach out. Email me at [email protected]. 🫡
I spent time with Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and unable to speak. He was working at a car wash when ICE raided it. Diaz is a DACA recipient, allowing him to live and work in the U.S., but ICE arrested him and held him for weeks in El Paso. latimes.com/california/sto…
Last month I wrote about the city's escalating liability pay outs, which reached $289 million in 2025 — the most in the history of LA. Yesterday the city was hit with a $50 million verdict in a single case. The liability crisis is not over. latimes.com/california/sto…
Border Patrol agents have been blocked through a restraining order from carrying out indiscriminate raids in L.A. and surrounding counties. At issue were raids at car washes and Home Depots. It appears they’ve moved operations up north.
BREAKING: We just rode along w/ Border Patrol as they conducted immigration enforcement in Sacramento, the capitol of the sanctuary state of California. Upon arrival at a Home Depot, suspected illegal aliens took off running in all directions. 10+ arrested. BP tells us records…
After the Palisades fire marred her political stature, Mayor Bass has clawed back with a series of historically good headlines Via @sherlyholmes and @_hamilton_matt latimes.com/california/sto…
Overall homelessness down two years in a row in LA County, according to the annual point in time count. From Andrew Khouri and me latimes.com/california/sto…
Rough numbers for both Andrew Cuomo (net -20 favorability) and Mayor Eric Adams (-41) in this new Data for Progress poll. Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is at +9 net fave and wins the general by 16% 756 likely voters in NYC, fielded July 1 through July 6.
Very Innie Retirement Party in Severance
State Department employees who have not yet received layoff notices today created posters for their less fortunate colleagues
L.A. will provide cash assistance to immigrants affected by raids latimes.com/california/sto…
Federal judge Frimpong issued a tentative ruling today which ACLU says suggests she’s inclined to grant two temporary restraining orders lawyers have requested. Could block arrests at Home Depot’s, car washes. Her decision will come down tomorrow latimes.com/california/sto…
Measure JK! How did the county accidentally revoke a criminal justice reform ballot measure? From @Rjaellis latimes.com/california/sto…
Stephen Miller finally gets his revenge on LA latimes.com/california/sto…
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Went on AirTalk with Larry Mantle yesterday to talk about my reporting on the L.A. Zoo open.spotify.com/episode/1RmgD7…
Mayor Bass calls federal raids in MacArthur park “outrageous and un-American”
I reached out to DHS for comment and they declined, telling me the “operation is ongoing.” latimes.com/california/sto…
The year is 2001 and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is talking about why it's more important to focus on the practical business of mailing out three DVDs at a time to consumers (who then mail them back) than it is to make something "cool" like streaming movies of the Internet
I wrote about the no-good, very messy divorce between the city-run L.A. Zoo and its non-profit partner of more than 60 years, the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. At stake is a $50 million endowment both sides claim is theirs latimes.com/california/sto…
Three days after we demanded @NYCMayor drop the ban, management has caught up. The union won’t stop fighting for @C_Sommerfeldt and demanding @andrewjulien does the same. nydailynews.com/2025/06/20/dai…