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1999 Stories by Marc B. Haefele

• Doctor’s Orders

  published December 30, 1999

  One of the most senior doctor-professors at the county‘s Martin Luther King Jr. Medical CenterCharles Drew University Medica... More >>

• Sucker Among the Sharks

  published December 30, 1999

  Never give a sucker an even break. --W.C. Fields, 1926 Moments after the release last week of Los Angeles Unified School... More >>

• Health Care for Saints

  published December 23, 1999

  Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabled Richard Devylder knows... More >>

• The Real World Organization

  published December 16, 1999

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterSomething important was missing from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations. Oh yes, there were, in some proportion,... More >>

• Big John’s Mouth

  published December 9, 1999

  Nearly three years ago, a city ordinance was proposed that would have limited what people could say to the City Council. This bill ran into so... More >>

• Never Too Early To Run

  published December 2, 1999

  Let‘s see, last time we had us a real mayor’s election in Los Angeles it was 1993. Indeed, the eventual winner didn‘t enter ... More >>

• Leave the Woman Alone

  published November 25, 1999

  The most pathetic continuing character in mystery fiction was created by the late, great Georges Simenon. She was Mme. Maigret, the virtually... More >>

• Departmentally Disturbed

  published November 18, 1999

  Why can‘t the LAPD be more like the Sheriff’s Department? By which I mean, why is it so resistant to meritorious criticis... More >>

• Dialogue of Slurs

  published November 11, 1999

  Rhetoric has no taste. Once you’re down with the great cause, assailing malfeasant demons, in or out of public office, why hold back? Wh... More >>

• Acting Out

  published November 4, 1999

  Any decision is better than no decision. The Los Angeles Unified board, calmed for a decisionless decade in its cultural Sargasso Sea, finally... More >>

• Beats Chocolate

  published October 28, 1999

  No matter how they shake the box, the pieces just won’t fall together. At least not in any way that suggests that Tedjitou Dessalegn, a senio... More >>

• Money for a Whistle Blower

  published October 21, 1999

  A $300,000 settlement has been reached in the federal suit of a former official who said the MTA fired him because he objected to a $65 million... More >>

• Parks’ Department

  published October 21, 1999

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• The Grateful Web

  published September 23, 1999

  One thing noteworthy about the recent county gun-show debates was the vital role the Internet played on both sides of the dialogue. ... More >>

• Big-Spender Mike

  published September 16, 1999

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterFirearms fans who came downtown to support continued gun sales at the County Fairplex’s gun shows put on a prett... More >>

• It’s Chinatown, Jake

  published September 9, 1999

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• The Guns of Autumn

  published September 2, 1999

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• Where the Man Began

  published August 26, 1999

  Photo by Ted SoquiYou notice the "Award-Winning Karaoke" parlor here, the smiling teens waving "Free Carwash for Jesus" placards there. But... More >>

• Wetlands and the Well-Ordered Society

  published August 19, 1999

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• Beginning at the Beginning

  published August 12, 1999

  Ted SoquiThere’s finally some good news about the future of the downtown park known as the Pueblo of Los Angeles. Since the 1960s, mos... More >>

• Pity Poor San Pedro

  published August 5, 1999

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov Once you get past the refineries, San Pedro looks like many port cities whose generations have lived near the sea.... More >>

• Role Reversal

  published July 29, 1999

  Photo by Ted SoquiThe last time I looked in, the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission was functioning rather well as the city government’... More >>

• Farewell but Not Good Riddance

  published July 15, 1999

  Photo by Slobodan DimitrovAll last week they said goodbye to the Richard Alatorre who should have been. Pioneer political role model to the... More >>

• A Long-Unsought Benefit

  published July 8, 1999

  Photo by Ted SoquiMaybe it’s because the rest of this fair state doesn’t always have its largest city’s interests at heart. But almost any t... More >>

• Cruel Britannia

  published July 1, 1999

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