LA CITYBEAT
HOT SEAT (12/15/2005)
L.A. County health department gets a new chief as King/Drew Medical Center collapses.

EVEN AFTER THE BREAK-UP (12/01/2005)
L.A. union locals pulled together to defeat Schwarzenegger just months after a national split.

POOR PROGNOSIS (11/17/05)
L.A.’s chief medical officer says privatization is possible if King/Drew loses accreditation.

SIGNS OF STRUGGLE (11/3/2005)
Jose Huizar is riding Villaraigosa’s coattails into the L.A. city council’s 14th district seat.

UNION-BUSTING AT THE BALLOT BOX (10/20/2005)
It’s unions vs. the Governator in another nasty ballot-proposition showdown.

HOW TO PLAY HARDBALL (10/06/2005)
L.A.’s powerful union movement unites to defeat the governor’s ballot initiatives.

UNNECESSARY SURGERY (9/29/2005)
Health professionals attack L.A. County’s plan to shut down more wards at King-Drew Medical Center.

A NEW BOILING POINT (9/8/2005)
John Mack was elected as head of the Police Commission to make change, but tensions remain.

INTO THE UNKNOWN (9/08/2005)
Unions that broke with the AFL-CIO cooperate with those who stayed to revitalize the labor movement.

COLLISION COURSE (7/14/05)
A coalition of rebel unions threatens to bolt from the AFL-CIO.

THE FED GETS A SURPRISE (6/30/05)
Martin Ludlow’s bid to replace the late Miguel Contreras hits a speed-bump.

CHOOSING LABOR (6/09/05)
Behind-the-scenes machinations.

STATE OF THE UNIONS (5/26/05)
With the election of Antonio Villaraigosa, the most powerful union-city in America finds itself at the crossroads.

COPPING OUT (5/12/05)
You won’t see police reform as a major issue in this year’s mayor’s race.

BLACK AND WHITE AND BROWN ALL OVER (5/05/05)
Antonio Villaraigosa’s deep roots in the African-American community have forged a new coalition in mayoral politics.

THE PLANNER (4/21/05)
City Council candidate Flora Gil Krisiloff is a veteran of the Westside’s land-use fray.

ROSENDAHL’S BIG IDEA (4/14/2005)
Effusive City Council candidate says Westside’s representative needs a cit.

CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP (4/07/05)
L.A. schools offer so few college-track courses that many students can’t get them.

POLITICAL ANIMALS (3/24/05)
Animal welfare activists scrap tooth and nail over the mayoral election.

NO MILLIONAIRE LEFT BEHIND (2/24/05)
Behind Bush’s "No Child Left Behind" Act, school officials see a massive push to privatize education.

GRIDLOCK POLITICS (2/17/05) COVER STORY
Mad development on the liberal Westside has made traffic–not jobs, not social services–the top issue in the race for L.A. mayor.

THE THIRD DEGREE–LAURA CHICK (2/03/05)
The Los Angeles City Controller on the city’s shady contracting process.

BIG BOXED OUT (12/16/04)
City of Rosemead side-steps community outrage over a new Walmart store.

NEGOTIATING THREE STRIKES (12/02/04)
The Governator helped crush Prop. 66, but reforms for California's controversial Three Strikes law may still be coming.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY (8/5/04)
After deregulation let energy companies raid California, a new bill proposes more deregulation.

ELECTRIC PARADE (8/19/04)
The Governor, legislature and consumers go head-to-head over deregulation of the state energy markets.

BIG-BOXED OUT (6/03/2004)
Walmart continues its expansion into Southern California but pays a heavy price.


THE JEWISH JOURNAL

SHAKE UP (11/3/05)
Prop 77 could retire Jewish reps–in the name of good government.


LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE
THE FIGHT CLUB (APRIL, 2001)
Antonio Villaraigosa has a strategy to fight his way into LA’s mayoral run-off.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE VALLEY
The San Fernando Valley has 40% of LA’s voter–whoever would be mayor must win the Valley.

PRIMARY COLORS (FEBRUARY, 2001)
A colorful collection of candidates could make LA’s next City Council one lively body.

REFORM SCHOOL (AUGUST, 2000)
Police Commission Director has a new, investigative role--and an iffy record on police reform

THE PRACTICE (JULY, 2000)
Uber-law firm influences City Hall.

STRIKE ZONE (APRIL, 2000)
Union protests could spoil the Democrats’ big party.

CHIEF ANTAGONISTS (MARCH, 2000)
Police protective league supports Parks adversary.

POWER FAILURE (FEBRUARY, 2000)
Neighborhood Councils don’t deliver on promises of grass-roots democracy.


LA WEEKLY

VALLEY SECESSION: THE SCALPEL SQUAD (5/30/02)
The people, forces and money behind the valley secession movement.

JUST THE TRUTH (3/9/01)
LAPD recruits are having trouble with the new lie-detector tests.

VOICES IN THE ‘HOOD (8/3/00)

THE REAL COOLEY (11/ 2/ 00)
Opponent Gil Garcetti would like to paint his foe as a right-winger.

IN THE DOGHOUSE (2/04/00)
Breeders are yelping about new fees.

TARGETING THE ASSASSINS (8/27/99)
School of the Americas faces its toughest test yet.

PAY BOOST SOUGHT FOR POLICE WATCHDOG (7/16/99)
Police Commission flip-flop means higher pay all around.

FACE-OFF ON POLICE (1/22-1/28/1999)
City Council addresses police reforms.

PARK JUMPS IN (1/08-1/14/1999)
The LAPD Chief’s firm stand on the limits of reform.

TO EXPEL AN INSPECTOR (12/04/98)
How the LAPD cleansed itself.


OFFBEAT

POLICE COMMISSION GETS ITS GUNN (10/16/98)
Joseph Gunn gets hired as commission director, with an unusual 59% salary hike.

DOG FIGHT (4/26/98)
Fur flies over high kill rate at city animal shelters.


IRISH HERALD

EARNING O’THE GREEN (JULY, 2000)

Los Angeles’ Mayor under fire

LOST IN LOS ANGELES (JUNE, 1998)
St. Vibiana church crumbling in disrepair.


IRISH AMERICA MAGAZINE

MOAKLEY, MCGOVERN AND ENEMIES OF WAR (JANUARY, 2000)

Two Congressmen demand answers to murder of Jesuits in El Salvador.


ALTERNET

A LAW AND ORDER KIND OF GUY (12/23/04)

David Soares' victory in the Albany County district attorney's race jarred loose changes that may reform of New York's ultra-punitive Rockefeller drug laws.

ORPHANED BY THE DRUG WAR (9/26/02)
When a woman is arrested on a drug charge, typically three generations of her family pay the price: mother, child, and grandmother. Disproportionately busted: women of color.


L.A. ALTERNATIVE PRESS

THE RISE OF THE BOY KING (COVER STORY-2/04/04)

Alex Padilla was elected to City Council at 28 and could covet the White House.

GET ON THE BUS (9/ 17/03)
Immigrants take a page from African-American civil rights activists and do a "freedom ride."

THE COUNCIL BUNCH (COVER STORY-7/09/03)
There’s lots of young blood in the new City Council–can they move a progressive agenda?


PASADENA WEEKLY

JUDY CHU RULES–FINALLY (COVER STORY-5/31/01)

The new Assembly member from the San Gabriel Valley got her political start ameliorating racial tensions in Monterey Park.

SWEAR TO GOD I DIDN’T KILL YOUR SON (9/28/ 2000)
A man convicted with police testimony says he didn’t do it

LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL
Palestinian Wins 20-Year Battle With U.S. (6/26/06)

Almost two decades of epic legal struggle ends for a Palestinian immigrant when a judge grants his citizenship petition, a fight that began when authorities arrested him in 1987 on the basis of an obscure law.

Two Front-Runners Out of Favor With LA, Alameda County Voters (6/08/06)
Voters deal startling upsets to incumbents favored to win in LA and Alameda Counties’ judicial elections.

Four Candidates Secure Seats on Los Angeles Superior Court (6/08/06)
Voters elected four new judges on Tuesday.

Seven Compete for Vacant Seat on Superior Court Bench (6/02/06)

Candidates Tout Their Experience, Ethnicity (6/01/06)
Judicial candidates outline the strengths and unique perspectives they would bring to a judicial position.

Protesters Demonstrate Economic Power of Immigrants (/5/02/06)
More than a million people turned out in downtown LA in support of immigrant rights.

Can Multinationals Force Insurers to Cover Torture? (5/01/06)
Myanmar rural residents sued Unocal after suffering torture and forced labor at the hands of the military in building a pipeline. Unocal settled–and is now taking its insurers to court to recover settlement costs.

Judge Rules Deputy’s Record Public (4/28/06)
The deputy sheriff’s employment history became public when his lawyers included it in an appeal to the county civil service commission, a judge rules.

Battle Over Urban Garden Could End This Week (3/13/06)
A court battle over farmers’ rights to cultivate a developer’s industrial lot could be over.

Personnel Records Create a Quandary (2/21/06)
Personnel records are closely guarded, but can a police officer’s become public information when it becomes part of an appeals process?

Divorces From Private Judges Raise Issues (2/21/06)
Money can’t buy love, but it can secure a privately-paid judge and discreet hearing to sort out divorce cases away from public scrutiny.

Panel Admonishes Judge Who Silenced and Detained Lawyer (2/13/06)
The California Commission on Judicial Performance issues a rare public admonishment against a judge that silenced, then detained a defense attorney.

Defense Counsel Focus Attention on ‘Safe Products’ Initiative (2/02/06)
Business interests promote a California ballot initiative to shield manufacturers from liability for punitive damages when their products injure consumers.

Fighting Back in Court of Public Opinion (1/31/06)
The professional association for consumer attorneys, weary of being attacked as "ambulance chasers," hope to change their image by hiring a former PR exec as executive director.

ROOFLINES–THE NATIONAL HOUSING INSTITUTE BLOG
Community Organizing: The Sequel (11/07/08)
There was GOP snideness to burn about Barack Obama’s community organizer background, but guess what helped him win?

Doesn’t Voter Fraud Require Actual Voting? (10/23/08)
The McCain campaign is going all-out to link Obama’s camp to voter fraud through irregularities in a grassroots group’s registration forms–but even if there are problems, registration does not equal voting.

Greetings From Out West (10/13/08)
A phone banking effort at the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor has union members calling other union members across the U.S. to get them out to vote.

The Free Market Ain’t Free (9/12/08)
The Bush Administration has embraced the "free market"–until it needed taxpayers to subsidize the $700 billion bank bailout.

GOP: Organize This! (09/05/08)
Republican National Convention speakers had a lot of fun with the notion of Barack Obama and community organizing, but people working together really can change policy. Or a maybe elect a particular candidate.

The Governor’s Budget Non-strategy (8/03/08)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger substitutes theatrics for leadership in the state budget impasse.

The Grass-roots Factor (6/21/08)
Uber-organizer Marshall Ganz is advising Team Obama. It shows the campaign takes direct grassroots participation seriously.

Obama Could Take a Cue From This LA Dust-Up (6/08/0)
A Los Angeles board of supervisors candidate with a low profile among voters pulls ahead of a household name through a door-to-door voter mobilization campaign.

Leadership Afraid to Cling to Immigration (5/28/08)
The present election-year crackdown on the undocumented is all the more painful in light of failed immigration reform attempts.

Senator Kennedy’s Awful Diagnosis (5/21/07)
Ted Kennedy first began his fight for accessible health in the 1970's and hasn’t given up; he’s grown all the more ferocious over the years defending the little guy–it makes the diagnosis of a brain tumor all the more sad.

California’s Organizer in the State House (5/16/08)
Karen Bass, the first African-American to claim the powerful post of California’s Speaker of the Assembly, brings a savvy organizer’s skills to the post, honed as founder of the South Los Angeles grassroots powerhouse, the Community Coalition.

California: Fear and Loathing at the Ballot Box (5/13/08)
A state ballot measure could potentially gut local rent control ordinances along with clean water regulations.

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