Email Author Sara Catania

2000 Stories by Sara Catania

• Heating Up

  published December 28, 2000

  There was a time, not too long ago, when a new, potentially polluting operation could move into a low-income area and set up shop with nary a... More >>

• Let Them Eat Cars

  published November 30, 2000

  When her husband left, Rocio Barba’s minimum-wage job did not bring in enough to cover the care of her two children, the mortgage, the ca... More >>

• Downey to Power Plant: Drop Dead

  published November 2, 2000

  Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov For the past seven months, the company that wants to build a power plant the size of Dodger Stadium has wooed the... More >>

• Power Play

  published October 12, 2000

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• It’s Not Easy Being Green

  published August 3, 2000

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo"GET IN THE CAR. GET IN THE CAR." On a summer afternoon so hot and dry that the oxygen seems sucked from... More >>

• Child Abandonment

  published August 3, 2000

  The shoe saleswoman at the outlet mall hovered, arms crossed. She did not offer assistance, only stood and stared. My friend and I were trying... More >>

• See No Evil

  published June 15, 2000

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• Remaking Public Radio

  published March 30, 2000

  It’s 8 a.m. and you‘re stuck in work-bound gridlock. The commercial news station you’re tuned to is airing a half-hour ad assault, so ... More >>

• ''Crimes We Abhor''

  published March 16, 2000

  In less than a week, barring an unforeseen act of God or the governor, the state of California will, in semi-secrecy, poison a man and kill him.... More >>

• Running Uphill

  published March 9, 2000

  Photos by Debra Dipaolo Dave Freeman stands in the rain, holding a plastic grocery bag and looking a little lost. It’s a Wednesday morning a... More >>

• Playing to Bigots

  published March 9, 2000

  In a telling example of its rightward march, the Daily News on Tuesday became the first and only major California... More >>