LA real estate vet comes at Mayor Bass with receipts over damning homelessness report: ‘She doesn’t get it’

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! LOS ANGELES, CA – As new data show homelessness rising in Los Angeles, local activist John Alle said Mayor Karen Bass has neglected her responsibility to address the issue and witness firsthand the crime, drug use and deteriorating conditions in some of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods.The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released its 2026 annual homeless count Friday, finding overall homelessness increased 3.4% in LA and 1.2% across the Los Angeles Continuum of Care following two consecutive years of declines, though LAHSA said “neither change is considered statistically significant.”The count estimated 45,194…

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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Use AI To Grow–And Even Hire More Workers

A quartet of witnesses testifying this week to the House Small Business Committee disputed the commonly-held belief that artificial intelligence will displace human workers and insisted that small businesses which use AI are likely to wind up having to hire more employees–because they’ll grow.Already, a majority of small businesses are…

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Exclusive | Tattoo artists are cashing in on Jimothy’s viral fame as pricey bookings skyrocket

He’s short-spined, a little wobbly on his tootsies, unmistakably quirky and an utter delight to those who know him. Jimothy the raccoon has gone from local curiosity to full-blown cultural mascot, and now he’s finding a permanent home on people’s epidermis in the Pacific Northwest. Tattoo shops in Seattle’s hipster neighborhood Ballard, where Jimothy has been spotted, are fielding a surge of requests for the singular raccoon as ink masters turn the fluffy new meme king into everything from traditional-style flash to more stylized, grandiose interpretations. Laura Exley of Electric Kitten Tattoo said she’s booked more than a dozen Jimothy…

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