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.
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.
