Awards
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2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 4, 2007
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2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club
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2007 Stories by Marc Cooper
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published December 27, 2007
OKAY, WE ALL KNOW IT ain’t badminton. But does presidential-campaign politics necessarily have to be an all-out flop into the mud?... More >>
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published December 20, 2007
Bill Clinton’s back, and it isn’t a pretty picture. In his post-heart-surgery incarnation, now shed of his Burger King baby... More >>
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published December 13, 2007
HERE’S SOME NEWS YOU MIGHT USE about Barack Obama. Did you know he was, in reality, a government plant, a sort of Manchurian... More >>
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published November 29, 2007
WITH HIS SIGNATURE now on the official ballot arguments in favor of four measures that would grant the largest Indian gambling expansion... More >>
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published November 15, 2007
NEW ORLEANS — Samuel Beckett’s frustratingly absurd play, Waiting for Godot, usually plays to small, elite, often... More >>
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published November 8, 2007
SOMEONE APPARENTLY FAILED TO SEAL the coffin on one of the more ghastly proposed California ballot measures after it was seemingly... More >>
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published November 1, 2007
Driving home from a weekend in the mountains on Sunday, listening to news radio, my wife suddenly asked what the term... More >>
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published October 25, 2007
WHERE I LIVE, ON THE EDGE of Topanga Canyon, our cars are dusted with ash and our nostrils tickled with the scent of charred wood.... More >>
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published October 18, 2007
It’s one thing that the national calendarof presidential primaries leapfrogs forward with every passing day. It’s quite... More >>
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published October 11, 2007
TUNE THE RADIO DIAL ANYTIME this week somewhere between KUSC and KCRW, and you’re going to inevitably bump smack into a... More >>
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published September 20, 2007
IT WAS Wonderful to see O.J. in handcuffs, getting hauled off to the cooler by the rough-and-tumble boys of Vegas Metro. Not so much... More >>
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published September 13, 2007
General David Petraeus’ long-awaited report back to Congress has confirmed the worst fears of the Bush administration. Six years... More >>
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published September 6, 2007
Buckle up your hazmat suits and adjust your air mask, as we’re going to take a late summer plunge into the bubbling cesspool of... More >>
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published August 23, 2007
I JOINED THE RANKS of, say, something like 299 million other Americans and skipped last weekend’s Democratic presidential debate... More >>
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published August 16, 2007
Des Moines, Iowa — When you start reporting on presidential campaigns, you notice occasional pivotal moments, veritable... More >>
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published August 2, 2007
LOOKS LIKE WHEN CALIFORNIA’S top Democrats, including Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, rolled over to wealthy tribes and... More >>
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published July 26, 2007
FIRST, MY DISCLAIMERS. I have a home network of six computers, as well as broadband wireless cards in both of my laptops. My first... More >>
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published July 12, 2007
I’M NOT ANGRY WITH Steve Maviglio for branding me on a Democratic Party blog as the “worst” political journalist in... More >>
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published July 5, 2007
WHEN I WROTE IN THESE PAGES a couple of weeks ago that California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez was on the verge of selling out his lon... More >>
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published June 21, 2007
WHY ANY LINGERING SUSPENSE about the course of the war in Iraq? For the first half of this year, the congressional Democrats — for... More >>
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published June 14, 2007
YOU KNOW LOCAL, EASTSIDE STATE Senator Gloria Romero, right? The feisty Democratic majority leader in the California Senate? The... More >>
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published June 7, 2007
YOU KNOW THE WORLD is upside down when Silvio and Bobby hit the dirt and Tony goes into hiding, but Hillary skates away without a... More >>
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published May 24, 2007
THE COMPROMISE immigration proposal served up this past week reminded me of that half-cooked grotesque and agonizing creature that... More >>
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published May 17, 2007
Uh-oh. What’s happened to that loopy green giant of a governor who recently endeared himself by blazing down the center of th... More >>
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published May 3, 2007
During this past weekend’s L.A. Times Festival of Books, I found myself sharing some goo... More >>
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