Email Author Max Taves

Awards

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 1, 2008

  "Rathouse of Palisades"

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2008 Stories by Max Taves

• Proposition 6: The Most Implosive

  published October 30, 2008

  The law-and-order authors of Proposition 6 call it the “Safe Neighborhoods Act,” and they promote it with a... More >>

• UCLA Profs and Scientists Sued Animal-Rights Radicals. Now They're Breathing Slightly Easier

  published August 28, 2008

  FOR UCLA, BAD NEWS COMES in lowercase, typo-plagued vulgarity and anonymous “communiqués,” like this one... More >>

• Obama vs. Baldilocks

  published August 21, 2008

  Los Angeles blogger Juliette Ochieng has a lot in common with the man who might be the next president, Barack Obama. A... More >>

• Metro Sales-Tax Shell Game

  published August 14, 2008

  THE STATED MISSION of the L.A. Bus Riders Union is to promote the “needs of low-income people” and make sure that... More >>

• Villaraigosa: Faking an Economic Miracle

  published August 7, 2008

  LOS ANGELES MIGHT BE in the middle of a housing crisis, suffering the nation’s highest fuel costs and plummeting in its... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Palisades Rathouse: Unchallenged by Health Officials, Elderly Twins Fed Local Vermin Population

  published July 31, 2008

  Last October 25 was the kind of community-council meeting that made news in Pacific Palisades. A smooth-talking,... More >>

• War Over MTA's "Eternity" Tax

  published July 24, 2008

  LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISORS Gloria Molina and Mike Antonovich don’t often agree, separated by a natural gulf between... More >>

• The Deja Vu of Bernard Parks vs. Mark Ridley-Thomas

  published May 29, 2008

  AS VOTERS ACROSS A LARGE SWATH of south and central Los Angeles — from Venice and Culver City to Crenshaw, Compton and... More >>

• Metrolink Tries to Censor Bloggers

  published May 22, 2008

  FOR BLOGGER AND TECH EXPERT Bob Arkow, the road to an obscure but powerful Internet über-court in Switzerland began on... More >>

• Another Toxic School? Virgil Expansion Planned on Contaminated Land

  published May 1, 2008

  LAST WEEK, THE L.A. BOARD OF EDUCATION approved the first step toward building an $85 million elementary school for 800... More >>

• Will Latinos Be the Swing Vote in the Tussle Between Parks and Ridley-Thomas?

  published April 24, 2008

  THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH of Los Angeles was the first of its kind in Southern California. It was founded in 1885 by... More >>

• Villaraigosa's Autry National Center Hubbub

  published March 20, 2008

  LAST SEPTEMBER, AT THE SOUTHWEST Museum on top of Mount Washington in Arroyo Seco, Tom Topping went to a press conference... More >>

• Did Subway Cheaters Put Egg On L.A.'s Face?

  published March 13, 2008

  TWO WEEKS AGO, ROGER SNOBLE, CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in Los Angeles, repeated a falsehood that... More >>

• Teachers Union's Presidency Up for Grabs

  published February 21, 2008

  Feb. 22 update:  In a low turnout election that attracted few Los Angeles teachers, current United Teachers Los Angeles... More >>

• Proposition 93 Fails: They're Outta Here!

  published February 7, 2008

  AT ABOUT 9:30 A.M. ON SUPER TUESDAY, outside a fire-station-turned-polling-place on Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles,... More >>

• Prop.93: How 42 Politicians Could Cash In

  published January 31, 2008

  Few California politicians have been angling for promotion as aggressively and unsuccessfully as state Senator Tom... More >>

• Prop. 93: Nunez's Term-limits Scam

  published January 24, 2008

  BIG-CITY, COASTAL DEMOCRATIC leaders are selling it, but landlocked, rural Republican voters are its likely buyers. Large... More >>

• F**king the Ficus in Santa Monica

  published January 10, 2008

  IF THE FICUS COULD USE its green, fatty canopy, long limbs and stubborn roots as weapons in mortal combat like Treebeard, then Second and... More >>

• F**king the Ficus in Santa Monica

  published January 10, 2008

  IF THE FICUS COULD USE its green, fatty canopy, long limbs and stubborn roots as weapons in mortal combat like Treebeard, then Second... More >>

• F**king the Ficus in Santa Monica

  published January 10, 2008

  IF THE FICUS COULD USE its green, fatty canopy, long limbs and stubborn roots as weapons in mortal combat like Treebeard, then Second... More >>