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2001 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• Wendy Greuel for City Council

  published December 6, 2001

  After three decades on the City Council, with term limits breathing down his neck and his mayoral aspirations dashed, Joel Wachs has resigned... More >>

• A Place for Us?

  published November 22, 2001

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• One-Trick Party

  published November 8, 2001

  WASHINGTON -- War is a continuation of Republican economics by other means. And if Clausewitz never quite said that, well, Clausewitz didn’... More >>

• Progressive L.A. Convenes

  published October 25, 2001

  By some standards, it’s been a rocky year for urban progressivism. In Los Angeles, not only did Antonio Villaraigosa’s bid for mayor come ... More >>

• W Transformed!

  published October 25, 2001

  While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down --Edgar Allan Poe Now is the season of our... More >>

• The Next Cold War

  published September 27, 2001

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• The Death Count

  published September 20, 2001

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — All that is solid melts into air, Marx wrote, but he didn’t mean in one terrible morning. Not in a savage decompositi... More >>

• DiFi’s Dilemma

  published September 13, 2001

  If one definition of a neurosis is a wholly mental construct that impedes real-world action, then the Social Security lock box is one whopper... More >>

• A Voice of Dissent

  published September 6, 2001

  Elsewhere on this site, the Weekly endorses Denise Robb for the... More >>

• Bicoastal

  published August 16, 2001

  Twelve years ago, when I came to the Weekly, L.A.’s poor came into view only during calamities: A downtown high-rise caught fire i... More >>

• A House Divided

  published June 21, 2001

  Now here’s a governing coalition. As the accompanying map makes clear, Jim Hahn put together a one-time hodgepodge of an Electio... More >>

• The Era of Bad Feelings

  published June 14, 2001

  I. Sucker-Punched The future is on hold here, at least for a few more years. Give Jim Hahn credit: He organized one last... More >>

• Son of Sam

  published June 7, 2001

  The days dwindle down; the Hahn fear offensive ratchets up. With the race for mayor in its final week, the image the Jim Hahn... More >>

• Hope and Fear

  published May 31, 2001

  The last days of the Richard Riordan mayoralty have borne a striking resemblance to the first scene of King Lear. Old Lear, you will recall, is... More >>

• Mayoral Warm-up

  published May 17, 2001

  Tuesday night‘s mayoral debate, the first of five between City Attorney James Hahn and former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa, wa... More >>

• Behind Hahn’s Lines

  published May 17, 2001

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• Hahn Turns Right

  published May 10, 2001

  A less experienced, more excitable campaign honcho than Kuwata might have betrayed at least a momentary desire to throttle the aide on the... More >>

• Explaining John Ford

  published May 3, 2001

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• Getting to 50-plus-1

  published May 3, 2001

  The lyric is 70 years old, but Ira Gershwin‘s mighty couplet on John P. Wintergreen, the candidatehero of the Gershwins’ 1931 musical Of Thee... More >>

• Old and New

  published April 19, 2001

  Now it‘s the old Los Angeles against the next. The June mayoral runoff between City Attorney James Hahn and forme... More >>

• Three’s a Crowd

  published April 12, 2001

  Photos by Debra DiPaolo (Villaraigosa) and Slobodan Dimitrov (Hahn) Three into two doesn’t go, and thus the drama of the closing week o... More >>

• Crunch Time

  published March 29, 2001

  I. Joel and Che, Together Again It‘s a crisp spring night at UCLA, and the 36th debate between the six major candidates for mayor o... More >>

• A Vision for the City: Introduction

  published March 15, 2001

  IT'S NOT EASY TO PICK A SINGLE MOMENT when it became clear that Los Angeles -- political Los Angeles -- had changed. There was the afternoon,... More >>

• W.'s Way

  published March 8, 2001

  Welcome to the Fourth Way. Or is it the Fifth? Bill Clinton, we know, was the Third. Between the traditional... More >>

• The Last Bad Idea

  published February 22, 2001

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