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2003 Stories by Howard Blume

• Belmont Eternal

  published June 5, 2003

  The school board’s divided go-ahead vote last week on the Belmont Learning Complex made it clear that the battle over the nation’s mo... More >>

• Revising History

  published May 29, 2003

  There’s nothing like a good war story — except perhaps when it isn’t true. The New York Times got its reminder in the per... More >>

• This Watchdog Can Still Bite

  published May 29, 2003

  In an often unpredictable local election season, one thing, at least, was certain. School-board incumbent David Tokofsky would... More >>

• Breaking the Belmont Jinx

  published May 22, 2003

  Maybe there is such a thing as the Belmont jinx. Maybe no school will ever open on the oil-contaminated,... More >>

• How Much Truth Is Enough?

  published May 15, 2003

  Did City Council candidate Deron Williams tell enough truth about his 1988 drug-trafficking arrest as a young adult? Williams has said recently... More >>

• A Voice by Any Other Name . . .

  published May 8, 2003

  This has been a trying 12 months for the L.A. Weekly and its parent company, Village Voice Media. First, the company crushed a... More >>

• From Hussein to the Hoosegow

  published May 8, 2003

  It took a lot to make Ali Abbod leave Iraq for America: losing his career as a teacher; more than 20 separate jailings for suspected... More >>

• Then and Now

  published April 24, 2003

  In the flush of the U.S. military triumph, it may seem odd to liken the war in Iraq to the past conflict in Vietnam. But there are fascinating... More >>

• Profit Is the Best Revenge

  published April 24, 2003

  The printer that just got fired by the L.A. Weekly will make up for the lost business by starting two competing weekly papers of its... More >>

• As Luck Would Have It . . .

  published April 17, 2003

  Mindy Kleinberg began by telling of a fall day in the Northeast, so warm and clear that she “literally skipped home” after seeing off h... More >>

• Start the Presses

  published April 10, 2003

  With a little help from the government, a newspaper that was shut down in a notorious deal has returned from the dead. The Cleveland Free... More >>

• The Reformers Are Dead, Long Live the Reformers

  published March 20, 2003

  Just four years after then-Mayor Richard Riordan launched the Coalition for Kids to elect “reform” candidates to the school board, t... More >>

• A Capricious Fate

  published March 13, 2003

  BERNIE STOLTZ HAD IT EASY calling voters on behalf of Jon Lauritzen, the retired teacher who defeated school-board President... More >>

• A Million-Dollar Moment

  published February 27, 2003

  THE MOST TELLING MOMENT IN this school-board debate came after the cameras stopped rolling last week. The four candidates were packing up... More >>

• Furor in Frisco

  published February 20, 2003

  A SKIRMISH OVER THE SOUL of the peace movement — and not the looming war against Iraq — briefly took center stage just before the start ... More >>

• Rough Trade

  published February 6, 2003

  Never before had all the employees of the L.A. Weekly been asked to assemble in the parking lot. But then, it isn‘t every day that the bos... More >>

• Web Extra: More of the Weekly’s Interview With John Quigley

  published January 30, 2003

  L.A. WEEKLY: While you were up in the tree, what was the hardest thing that you had to deal with? JOHN QUIGLEY:... More >>

• The Testimony of a Tree-Sitter

  published January 30, 2003

  John Quigley is out of the tree, but not out of the fight, after 71 days of human nesting in the 400-year-old oak known to authorities as... More >>

• Out of His Tree

  published January 23, 2003

  Of course, it had to end this way, with no happy Disney resolution or theme music: just a swarm of officers doing the bidding of progress last... More >>

• A Draining Problem

  published January 23, 2003

  Allan Zolnekoff is no environmental pariah. To the contrary, on and off the Whittier City Council, he fought to preserve historic... More >>