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2005 Stories by Robert Greene

• Power to the Dogs

  published December 22, 2005

  The Department of Animal Services has a full-time general manager, a board of five volunteer commissioners, and a rocky relationship... More >>

• A Billionaire’s Bark

  published December 22, 2005

  Ed Boks was already in L.A. and on the job this week, touring animal shelters and meeting with humane activists and city employees, even... More >>

• School Takedown

  published December 8, 2005

  Laura Chick probably wasn’t trying to sound like Don Vito Corleone when she “suggested” that she audit the Los Angeles Unified Sch... More >>

• Impossible Cure

  published December 1, 2005

  The real surprise in the abrupt resignation Tuesday of Los Angeles County health director Thomas Garthwaite was that he stuck around as... More >>

• First-Day Chatters

  published December 1, 2005

  On their first day in office, new City Council members José Huizar and Herb Wesson showed they had already mastered the finer points of c... More >>

• Project Greed

  published November 24, 2005

  The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency has quietly agreed to give up millions of dollars in public money to help rush through a... More >>

• The Let-It-Slide Commission

  published November 17, 2005

  The message that Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss apparently hoped would come out of last week’s Ethics Commission meeting is tha... More >>

• Groundless Logic

  published November 17, 2005

  When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was criticized last week for taking a ride to Rosa Parks’ Detroit funeral on a corporate jet owned b... More >>

• Antonio’s Special Seat

  published November 10, 2005

  It was a sad occasion, but a dream invitation for Antonio Villaraigosa — a chance to speak at the funeral of civil-rights icon Rosa Parks... More >>

• Bonded in L.A.

  published November 10, 2005

  The residents of Los Angeles County, who said no along with the rest of California to all eight statewide propositions on the special... More >>

• Team Antonio Scores

  published November 10, 2005

  They were in uniform, like a cricket team, except instead of white flannels they donned identical City Hall regulation bluish-grayish suits... More >>

• Herb the Inevitable

  published October 20, 2005

  Herb Wesson still speaks of his election to the Los Angeles City Council on November 8 as a mere possibility, something that is not... More >>

• Damn, Not Another Election

  published October 20, 2005

  It’s almost Election Day. Again. Your ballot is full and you better show up. This is the most important electoral decision you’ll make ... More >>

• José vs. Nick

  published October 20, 2005

  There must have been a hundred people packed into Nick Pacheco’s campaign headquarters, and they were pumped. Boyle Heights teens, Eagl... More >>

• On Native Ground

  published October 6, 2005

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• A Mayor Fit for a Mansion

  published September 29, 2005

  An exasperated-looking guy with a video camera and his equally frantic soundman push into the room full of neighborhood leaders, and from... More >>

• Driving in Utopia

  published September 22, 2005

  Compared with the way it used to be, Andrea Nunn’s daily marathon of home-to-school-to-office commuting is a snap. She backs her Toyot... More >>

• Amped-Up Over Nothing

  published September 15, 2005

  Okay, now you try it. You pull on the cable like this, you take your wire clippers in your right hand, and you... no, not that cable!... More >>

• The Big Difference

  published September 8, 2005

  When a major earthquake or other disaster strikes Los Angeles, Horace Penman will be ready, and that’s good news for his neighbors i... More >>

• The Anger Commission

  published September 1, 2005

  For the second straight week, the Los Angeles Police Commission this week moved out of the tiny conference room where the five-member... More >>

• Power On High

  published August 18, 2005

  City Commissioners who last month balked at rubber-stamping a hefty and somewhat mysterious salary boost for 8,000 Department of Water... More >>

• Cowboys and Indians

  published August 18, 2005

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• Anointed by Antonio

  published August 18, 2005

  The election to replace Martin Ludlow as city councilman took place last week and, well, sorry, voters of the 10th district, but you... More >>

• Eric to Gil: Gee Thanks, Dad

  published August 11, 2005

  Eric Garcetti was one of three members of the Los Angeles City Council who won re-election in March with no opposition, in part because he... More >>

• No Life Without Sunshine

  published August 11, 2005

  A man named Sam Yorty once became mayor of Los Angeles by standing on the steps of City Hall and dumping a load of garbage to illustrate... More >>