Joseph Tsidulko

Cristina Garcia: From Fighting Corruption in Bell to the State Assembly

Joseph TsidulkoMay 14, 2014

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. Cristina Garcia wasn't happy about moving back to her hometown of Bell Gardens in 2009. The 30-year-old Los Angeles City College adjunct math professor only returned to help her four siblings......

DWP Union Boss Taps a Loophole to Hide $40 Million

Joseph TsidulkoFebruary 13, 2014

An odd legal loophole soon will play a central role in the municipal pissing contest over two mysterious L.A. Department of Water and Power "training institutes" that have secretly spent $40 million in public money. Veteran union boss Brian D'Arcy is hoping that exploiting a bit of ambiguous language......

Is the State of California Plotting the Ballona Wetlands' Demise?

Joseph TsidulkoJanuary 9, 2014

Late last month, as L.A. residents got ready for the holidays, 40 impassioned environmentalists and Westside residents donned lime green T-shirts declaring their cause at a meeting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors: "Don't Bulldoze Ballona." They took turns beseeching the five supervisors to not allow the County......

Will the FBI Corruption Probe of Ron Calderon End up Exposing His L.A. Pals?

Joseph TsidulkoNovember 21, 2013

Last summer, two men sat at Dal Rae, a swank throwback to 1950s dining elegance in Pico Rivera, having a high-level movie-biz meeting far from Hollywood gossips, except that one of them was surreptitiously taping the entire thing. The conversation turned from films to politics — specifically, to the tax......

How a Brother and Sister Took L.A.'s Russian Immigrant Community on a Wild Ride

Joseph TsidulkoOctober 10, 2013

On a quiet, sycamore-lined street in Reseda in the sprawling San Fernando Valley, Shura Rafaelov, a 65-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, runs a small day care in her home. Rafaelov's house bustles with the pleasant clamor of a dozen children of Russian heritage, from infants rocking...

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Joseph Tsidulko

Cristina Garcia: From Fighting Corruption in Bell to the State Assembly

DWP Union Boss Taps a Loophole to Hide $40 Million

Is the State of California Plotting the Ballona Wetlands' Demise?

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