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2006 Stories by Harold Meyerson

• Our Town, Our Paper

  published October 26, 2006

  ’TIS THE FINAL COLUMN, the last Powerlines, and I’d like to use it to think back and forward about the city I’ve... More >>

• Out of the Frying Pan

  published October 12, 2006

  For those of you who follow such things, the reports of my impending severance from and by the Weekly are not exaggerated. For... More >>

• An Autumn's Long Nap

  published September 21, 2006

  PHIL ANGELIDES IS SO LEAN that it’s hard to find a physical description of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee that doesn’t... More >>

• Y'all Don't Come Back

  published September 7, 2006

  ALL THE HOO-HA about immigration notwithstanding, America remains more a white working-class nation than anything else. Those white... More >>

• Reversing Brain Waves

  published August 24, 2006

  PERVERSE THOUGH IT MAY SOUND, the one thing that this year’s gubernatorial race has confirmed is that to become, or remain,... More >>

• L.A.'s Red

  published August 10, 2006

  WHEN THE POSITION OF CHAIRMAN of the Los Angeles Communist Party came open in the late 1940s, the two obvious candidates were Dorothy... More >>

• The Greatest Good for the Smallest Number

  published August 3, 2006

  IF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HAS a guiding principle, it must be that the government that governs least governs worst.By now, the... More >>

• Downwardly Mo

  published July 20, 2006

  LIKE ANY MAJOR METROPOLIS, Los Angeles has its normal sea of troubles, but there are two fundamental problems that really define the... More >>

• Democratic Elites Rethink

  published June 22, 2006

  HERE IN WASHINGTON, Democrats are engaged in a frenzy of rethinking. Two new magazines have been unveiled this week (in one of which... More >>

• Will the Real Pat Brown Please Stand Up?

  published June 8, 2006

  The conventional wisdom couldn’t be clearer. Centrist squares off against liberal. Megacelebrity dukes it out with nerd.... More >>

• Harman's Two-Front War

  published May 25, 2006

  TROUBLE IS COMING DOUBLEfor Jane Harman. In her congressional district, which stretches along the coast from Venice to the harbor, the... More >>

• Phil and the Cavity

  published May 18, 2006

  IT’S ENDORSEMENT SEASON here at the Weekly, and since term limits have whacked an entire generation of incumbents and... More >>

• The Centralizer

  published April 27, 2006

  THEY’RE TRYING TO CENTER LOS ANGELES again. The umpteenth iteration of the give-L.A.-a-downtown project features the combined... More >>

• The Smartest Movement

  published April 13, 2006

  WASHINGTON, D.C. — From Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, you could see them approaching from afar, trooping down 16th... More >>

• Saturday's Stroll

  published March 30, 2006

  SO WHAT’S WITH THESE IMMIGRANTS? They’ve been here a while. They know that Angelenos don’t turn out for massive... More >>

• The Reiner Riddle

  published March 16, 2006

  FOR ROB REINER, IT’S THE BEST AND WORST OF TIMES. Revelations that the state commission on early childhood that he chairs funded... More >>

• Life of Labor

  published February 23, 2006

  IN THE BEGINNING, MARTIN LUDLOW was the answer to Miguel Contreras’ prayer. The huge influx of Latino immigrants into Los Angeles... More >>

• The Shape of '06

  published February 16, 2006

  BY NOW, WE KNOW whom Karl Rove was talking to when he accused the Democrats of being a permanently pre-9/11 party several weeks ago. His... More >>

• Major Mud

  published February 2, 2006

  YOU KNOW OUR PRESIDENT IS SERIOUS when he drops his “g”s off words ending in “ing.” That’s when he’s... More >>

• Great Cesar's Ghost

  published January 19, 2006

  WITHIN THE ALL-TOO-SMALL WORLD of liberals and labor, there’s been no larger topic of discussion for the past couple of weeks than... More >>

• Outliving the Bastards

  published January 12, 2006

  IT WAS HARDLY A DISTINCTION HE SOUGHT, but at one point in his life, Frank Wilkinson was a one-man full-employment program for the FBI.... More >>