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Next month, City Controller Laura Chick plans to begin an audit of law firms and officials who monitor them. With the... More >>
Confidential documents and sworn statements by Cardinal Roger Mahony were released last week, ending two years of legal... More >>
Photo by AP/Wideworld Observers of the Catholic Church sex scandal saw for the first time last Friday what passes for mass closure... More >>
Scott Imler’s voice is less urgent, less ravaged, than it was two years ago, when he was on a hunger strike to save the Los Angele... More >>
THE CASE OF Patricia Surjue v. The City of Inglewood has ended. Last Wednesday, after a jury was chosen and... More >>
A CRITICAL VOTE next Wednesday by the Department of Water and Power’s Retirement Board could reduce the DWP’s contribution to its pensi... More >>
Sandra Miranda remembers the little warehouse on Lamar Street, near the San Antonio Winery in downtown Los Angeles. Empire Cleaning... More >>
A procession of Department of Water and Power employees seized the floor and railed against harassment and retaliation recently at a... More >>
Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov Cardinal Roger Mahony has been compared to a mafia don for his obstruction of criminal and civil justice... More >>
As chief financial watchdog, City Controller Laura Chick has turned up the temperature on high-profile targets in the city’... More >>
After months of blessing the Catholic Church’s near-sacred insistence on secrecy in a criminal probe of clergy sex abuse and an allege... More >>
Dan Carvin may be out of a job, and he may have a nasty lawsuit to resolve, but state lawmakers are becoming interested in what got him fired... More >>
Rejecting calls for an inspector general to help as the city’s watchdog, City Controller Laura Chick said Los Angeles does not need mor... More >>
Photo by Max S. Gerber Like many black men of his generation, Milton Crawford never had room to make mistakes. Growing up in a family of 20... More >>
In announcing the $2 billion lawsuit he filed against Enron last week, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer showed that it’s never to... More >>
Pressure on Patricia Surjue to settle her brutality lawsuit against the city of Inglewood and former police Officer Jeremy Morse has... More >>
Steering clear of the trouble that looms for the California Coastal Commission, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to soundbite-sized... More >>
Photos by Anthony Allen As hundreds of thousands of refugees fled famine and oppression in East Africa, Nikki Tesfai arrived in Los Angeles... More >>
The Los Angeles civil rights community can be small, and for Patricia Surjue, who this winter backed out of a federal-court settlement in a... More >>
Patricia Surjue is finding out just how lonely it feels to take on a city, its police force, a federal judge and her own lawyers — all at th... More >>
Cardinal Roger Mahony has been admonished by a national lay-Catholic review board for his hardball legal tactics in the clergy... More >>
The National Review Board of lay Catholics released a report last week that detected “the smoke of Satan” in the Catholic Church. The boar... More >>
Journalists covering the clergy sex-abuse scandal have dogged the Catholic hierarchy from Boston to Phoenix, but the Los Angeles... More >>
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