Email Author Gene Maddaus

Awards

• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 15, 2011

  "Secrets & Lies"

• 2011 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 2, 2010

  "L.A.'s Light Rail Fiasco"

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2010 Stories by Gene Maddaus

• Standard & Poor's downgrades L.A.'s credit rating

  published Feb 23, 2010

  More bad news on the city budget, as City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana told the council today that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the city's credit rating.The move follows a warning las... More >>

• Centrist Dems stand up for Abel Maldonado

  published Feb 23, 2010

  In a case of Sacramento centrists hanging together, Assemblyman Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, and Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, have penned an editorial calling for the confirmation of Sen. Abel Maldonad... More >>

• Villaraigosa Cites Girlfriend's Expertise on Pay Cuts

  published Feb 18, 2010

  At a press conference this morning to announce new stimulus spending, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa renewed his call for the City Council to act quickly to address next year's $485 million deficit.Villar... More >>

• Supreme Court Opens Floodgates on L.A. City Election Spending

  published Feb 16, 2010

  Developers, billboard companies, and public employee unions will all get to have a more direct role in Los Angeles elections, thanks to last month's Supreme Court ruling that struck down limits on ind... More >>

• Manhattan Beach Cops Probed For Alleged DUI Cover-Up

  published Feb 12, 2010

  Four Manhattan Beach police officers have been placed on leave as investigators probe an alleged cover-up of an alcohol-related crash.The officers failed to take a report after learning that the car i... More >>

• UPDATE: Sending Trutanich to His Corner

  published February 11, 2010

  Carmen Trutanich, L.A.'s bulky and bullheaded city attorney, has been in office for seven months, and has wasted little of... More >>

• David Beckham's Soccer Academy Goes Belly-Up

  published Feb 08, 2010

  Nick Green, the LANG newspapers' soccer columnist, reports today on the closure of the David Beckham Academy, which for the last five years has offered soccer lessons to kids at AEG's Home Depot Cente... More >>

• FBI Confirms Fugitive In Caltech Eco-Terror Case Has Died

  published Feb 05, 2010

  The FBI has confirmed that Tyler Johnson, a fugitive whom prosecutors considered a co-conspirator in the 2003 fire-bombing of an SUV dealership in West Covina, has died.According to an obituary posted... More >>

• In A.G.'s race, two big names weigh in late [Update: Speier out]

  published Feb 02, 2010

  Candidates for statewide office turned in their semi-annual fundraising numbers Monday. But perhaps the two biggest names in the attorney general's race didn't have to file because they weren't runnin... More >>

• How To Follow In The Cardinal Mahony Succession Drama

  published Feb 01, 2010

  Rocco Palmo, who writes about Catholic issues at Whispers in the Loggia, has been hearing the rumors about Cardinal Roger Mahony taking on an understudy who would succeed him when he retires next year... More >>

• Neighborhood Councils Urge City Hall To Allow Online Voting

  published Jan 29, 2010

  Faced with generally abysmal voter turnout, a handful of neighborhood councils are trying to allow their "stakeholders" to vote online or by phone.But "American Idol"-style balloting has few fans at t... More >>

• The Plastic Bag Lives On In Manhattan Beach

  published Jan 27, 2010

  A state appellate panel dealt a setback today to Manhattan Beach and to other cities that have sought to ban plastic bags, ruling that the city should have done an environmental impact report before i... More >>

• A reality show about Silver Laker

  published Jan 25, 2010

  The blogs are buzzing about the Craigslist casting call for real-live hipsters to appear in a reality show about Silver Lake:A new Reality Show is casting Silver Lake's rich, wealthy, hipster GUYS and... More >>

• Has Cardinal Roger Mahony's Successor Been Namedr [Updated]

  published Jan 22, 2010

  That's what Thomas Peters, a Washington, D.C.-based blogger, is claiming in a recent post. Peters says that Cardinal Roger Mahony has approved the selection of a coadjutor bishop who would succeed him... More >>

• The Long Road to Havana

  published January 21, 2010

  Sage Lewis has spiked hair and the determined gaze of a would-be guerrilla leader. From his home in Highland Park, Lewis... More >>