Email Author David Futch

2011 Stories by David Futch

• $100 Billion Bullet Train

  published November 24, 2011

  How much does it cost to go from Los Angeles to San Francisco by train? Nearly $100 billion. It's not a punch line. It's the... More >>

• Farmer's Field's Fanciful Green Promise

  published September 15, 2011

  AEG has promised to build a "carbon-neutral" Farmers Field football stadium that will add no extra emissions to the current load in polluted... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?

  published September 8, 2011

  Click here for "A Field of Billboards for... More >>

• Worst Legislator in California, Part II

  published June 2, 2011

  Please click here to read Part I in this occasional... More >>

• United Methodist Church vs. L.A. City Hall

  published April 21, 2011

  When the City of Los Angeles began lease negotiations with a historic church on Olvera Street, parishioners never imagined it... More >>

• Campaign Consultants Stank up L.A. on March 8

  published March 17, 2011

  The big winners in the City Council elections were the same people who won four years ago. The big losers: voters. The March 8... More >>

• Blogger Field Day in Huizar vs. Martinez

  published March 3, 2011

  The Los Angeles City Council race most worth watching is in its final furlong, and political bloggers from Mayor Sam to the... More >>

• Martinez-Huizar Numbers Game

  published February 17, 2011

  In the loud, nasty soap opera that is the Los Angeles City Council District 14 election race, you wouldn't know that incumbent... More >>

• L.A. City Council Bums

  published February 3, 2011

  One theme stands out in the 2011 Los Angeles City Council races: There's a sentiment to throw the bums out but only a couple of serious... More >>

• Jose Huizar Unfriends Rudy Martinez

  published January 20, 2011

  Jose Huizar is a likable guy. So is Rudy Martinez. They just don't like each other. It wasn't always like this. After... More >>