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{mosimage}THERE WAS ONLY ONE television station to watch on the day in mid-June when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa first broached the... More >>
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa strode in front of a dozen cameras on Monday to discuss a very personal matter: the collapse of his... More >>
MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA strode in front of a dozen cameras on Monday to discuss a very personal matter: the collapse of his... More >>
YOU REMEMBER HOW EVERYBODY hated that old plan for fixing up LAX? The one that went down in flames a year or two ago? The one that... More >>
We are not moving. We, the passengers of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s No. 304 bus, are not moving. The traffic signal up... More >>
{mosimage} Santa Monica real estate developer Dan Palmer faced a daunting task three years ago when he... More >>
If any one principle provides the underpinning for smart growth, it’s density — putting multistory homes around rail stations, on bus corrido... More >>
Click the image to download a full pdf of the mapThe... More >>
Forget the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall. When it comes to political theater, the hot ticket in town over the past few weeks just might... More >>
Nothing says Los Angeles quite like the random pieces of furniture that line our city’s dumpy and unloved boulevards. Perhaps you alread... More >>
{mosimage} Environmental attorney Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza remembers vividly the night police officers... More >>
Tropico de nopal is enchanting. The slender, two-story art gallery — once the home to a printing company — has the gentle curves found in ... More >>
Last week started out so promising for Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton. One day before scores of police officers marched into... More >>
As Griffith Park burned Tuesday night, there was one politician who kept showing up on our television screens, one man who sounded deeply sad... More >>
Imagine how confused L.A.s gang members must be right now. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa cant stop talking about them, making... More >>
YOU’D THINK FROM READING the blogs and the newspapers that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was having his Worst Week Ever, as the wags... More >>
When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council announced plans last year for a $1... More >>
Members of the city’s civic elite were wringing their collective hands last week, stunned over the dismal participation shown by th... More >>
IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY we could freeze this moment in Los Angeles politics. Just for a year, maybe two. One day after the school board... More >>
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is not a guy who takes no for an answer. He pushed hard for passage of... More >>
Veteran San Fernando Valley pol Richard Alarcón irritated quite a few people last year by jumping into the March 6 race for the Los An... More >>
Huizar bought the home on La Calandria for $157,000 in 1999, just before the region’s real estate market went through the roof. Ye... More >>
FROM THE MOMENT HE WADED into the issue of public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s push for power at the Los Angeles Unified... More >>
CHRIS CASTELLANOS, 1988–2006The No. 18 bus ambles down Whittier Boulevard every 10 minutes on weekday mornings, letting its mostly... More >>
THE POLITICAL CULTURE THAT GOVERNS ?Los Angeles is in many ways like a teenager clutching a remote control, zipping from channel to... More >>
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