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2000 Stories by Marc B. Haefele

• King/Drew’s Renewal

  published December 28, 2000

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• Doing the Medici

  published December 21, 2000

  Hating downtown Los Angeles isn‘t new. My old friend Father Malcolm Boyd -- who served in Hollywood’s bureaucracy before his ordination ... More >>

• Fame, etc.

  published December 14, 2000

  It was one of those rare Monday mornings when people wanted news coverage all over City Hall. The mayor‘s folk and Councilman Mike Feuer hunte... More >>

• Upheaval Update

  published December 7, 2000

  In all its ocean-linerly majesty, the Los Angeles Times veered a few degrees from its usual course last week better to scrutinize the ongoing... More >>

• Where Money Didn’t Talk

  published November 23, 2000

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov All over America, in the months before this millennial election, campaign-spending records fell like grain under... More >>

• The Bereaved

  published November 16, 2000

  With coffee, cookies and a sorrow appropriate to the removal of a brain-dead relative‘s life support, the city attorney, five City Counci... More >>

• The Part-Time Machine

  published November 9, 2000

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• Tale of Two Strikes

  published October 26, 2000

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• Battle for Prosperity

  published October 19, 2000

  By October’s second weekend, it was clear to everyone in town that an end to labor strife was somewhere in the unseeable distance. ... More >>

• The Code of Cordoba

  published October 12, 2000

  The subtle entity known as Cordoba Corporation used to thrive on bad publicity. Cordoba has bid for contracts as diverse as building demolition... More >>

• Coming Alive

  published October 5, 2000

  By winning the face-off with Los Angeles‘ mayor and police chief last week, the Los Angeles City Council finally did something in thi... More >>

• Fairness Dictates

  published September 21, 2000

  Without putting the county‘s finances even slightly out of joint, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week managed to raise by 5... More >>

• You Got Me, Babe

  published September 14, 2000

  Bowling Alone isn’t really about bowling alone. As sociologist Robert Putnam allows on page 113, a better designation might be Bowling in Smal... More >>

• The First Step Back

  published September 14, 2000

  The lore has been out there practically since first I learned to read: It’s the legend of the totally out-of-control... More >>

• The Grapes of L.A.

  published September 7, 2000

  The broadcast media had a ball with this month‘s little story that Los Angeles County was about, once again, to allow people to make their ow... More >>

• About That Money

  published August 31, 2000

  As some of you may have already heard, there was a political convention in town the other week. And while it sometimes seemed unduly unruly,... More >>

• Steal This Hoffman

  published August 24, 2000

  The long-haired radical kid from the Pennsylvania backcountry had just returned from the 1968 Democratic Convention, battered and without a... More >>

• Dock City

  published August 10, 2000

  From below, the Vincent Thomas Bridge is green and fresh, the paint glossy-bright on all the bolts and screws, wires and girders, all the way... More >>

• Free To Protest

  published August 3, 2000

  There was one big scramble downtown last week after U.S. District Judge Gary Feess told the DNC organizers, the Secret Service and the LAPD... More >>

• What Reactionaries

  published July 27, 2000

  A moderate-size demonstration of Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees International Union members was in progress outside the Loews Santa... More >>

• Mayor of Mayors?

  published July 20, 2000

  One thing that’s never been really popular in pop-prone Southern California is popular upheaval. At least not in local government. Remembe... More >>

• Parks in Charge

  published July 13, 2000

  When Police Chief Bernard Parks told the City Council two weeks ago about how the aftermath of the big Lakers win became a vest-pocket riot, he... More >>

• Creary Steps Down

  published June 29, 2000

  In December, we last looked in on Dr. Ludlow B. Creary, then one of the most senior -- not to say best-paid -- staffers at the county’s unquie... More >>

• Hang On

  published June 22, 2000

  So I’m westbound on Pico at this red light somewhere past Robertson, and this dude in a vast new chromey SUV trundlebug pulls up. He blips hi... More >>

• Waving the Waiver

  published June 15, 2000

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