Email Author Daniel Heimpel

Awards

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published September 10, 2009

  "Left to Themselves"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published March 19, 2009

  "Rooftop Kids"

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2009 Stories by Daniel Heimpel

• Foster-Child Power

  published December 31, 2009

  In October, on the eve of big cuts to the state’s child-welfare system, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger boasted of... More >>

• Potshots Over Los Angeles Pot Shops

  published September 24, 2009

  The broke — and, many say, broken — Los Angeles City Council, fresh from brutal budget negotiations last Friday in... More >>

• War of Words Over Station Fire

  published September 10, 2009

  Helicopters corkscrew down to the surface of Hansen Dam in the San Fernando Valley as the unstoppable Station Fire pushes up a... More >>

• Left to Themselves: Foster Youths in L.A., a Before-and-After Story

  published September 10, 2009

  John Kyzer had to escape L.A. The 18-year-old’s plan was to catch the midnight Greyhound for Montana. He had no bag, no... More >>

• Lily Burk Death: Paperwork Snafu, or Steve Cooley Screwup?

  published August 13, 2009

  As media coverage of the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk hit a crescendo in recent days, many people were looking for someone... More >>

• L.A.'s Reefer Revolution

  published July 16, 2009

  The skinny, redheaded teenager looks skittish as he approaches a 21-year-old homeless youth we will call Ricky. The pale boy... More >>

• Claiming Poverty, L.A. City Council Tries to Defund Its Critics

  published May 21, 2009

  On the eve of the May 12 L.A. City Council Budget and Finance Committee meeting, a vast network of neighborhood councils, some... More >>

• Bill Bratton's Endorsements Spectacle

  published May 14, 2009

  It’s a spectacle Angelenos have rarely seen, officially frowned upon since the ethics reforms of 1991, when former U.S.... More >>

• DWP Slush Fund

  published April 30, 2009

  On March 25, L.A. Superior Court Judge Kenneth Freeman handed down a tentative ruling against the city’s practice of... More >>

• L.A.'s Density Bonus Blowup

  published April 30, 2009

  Click here for “Angelenos Sue City Hall Over Prodensity... More >>

• Pen Pushers Break Bank: Cash-Strapped L.A. City Hall Spends $1 Million on Calligraphy

  published April 9, 2009

  Never mind that a $530 million deficit looms. Every Friday, the Los Angeles City Council engages in an uplifting exercise,... More >>

• Measure B: Tweet Against the Machine

  published March 26, 2009

  There’s one thing both sides agree on following the defeat of Solar Measure B: It was a message to those in power to... More >>

• Rooftop Foster Kids

  published March 19, 2009

  The corner of Hollywood and Western is the epicenter of an underground world: a community outside the collective vision of... More >>

• Villaraigosa and Solar Measure B Get Burned

  published March 5, 2009

  Like going to the pool without sunblock, going to the polls with a hurried and controversial ballot measure can get you... More >>

• L.A.'s Solar-Energy Ballot-Measure Melodrama

  published January 15, 2009

  Former DWP General Manager David Freeman has a glimmering dream for the city of Los Angeles. “When you fly into L.A.,... More >>

• Why Do Secret Citizens Control the Gang Contracting?

  published January 8, 2009

  Editor's Note: The mayor released the names of the 50 anonymous citizens cited below on Tuesday evening after L.A.... More >>

• Mold Queen Loses in Court: July 24, 2008

  published January 1, 2009

  When does a health concern become an obsession? L.A. Weekly’s cover story, More >>