Week in Review: Single-Use Bags Ban, Legislative Scorecard and Traffic Report

Here are the editor's picks of the top stories from the past week.

Los Angeles moved a step closer to a ban on single-use plastic and paper bags this past week when the Board of Public Works approved a report urging the mayor and city council to pass a sweeping ban. Details right here.

The deadline for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign bills passed and we took at legislation approved and disapproved from state Sen. Ted Lieu and Assemblymember Betsy Butler. You can read about Lieu's achievements right here, including a tanning bed ban for minors, and Butler's scorecard right here.

Del Rey-based Ocean Charter School is vying with Green Dot Charter Schools for space at Walgrove Elementary in Venice that has been allocated under Proposition 39. There's a growing group of local area stakehodlers who don't want to see any charter school built on the premises. Learn more right here.

Check out our new real-time traffic report with local conditions before starting your commute or going on that long trip. You can zoom in or out of the map or enter an address, city or zip code to customize it.

Our Viewfinder photo feature gallery focused its lens this past week on bikes in Marina del Rey and Venice. Feel free to upload your own photo of a bicycle or cyclists.