Email Author Tibby Rothman

Awards

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "It's War: The Prop. 8 Ruling"

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2008 Stories by Tibby Rothman

• LACMA's $900,000 Political Donation

  published December 18, 2008

  IT WAS APRIL 2007, THE REAL estate world was still a go-go boom, and a document issued by a Los Angeles property owner seeking... More >>

• Fiery Urban Critic Jane Usher Resigns

  published December 18, 2008

  LOS ANGELES PLANNING Commission President Jane Usher, who, in a controversial letter slamming the policies of her political... More >>

• Villaraigosa Helps Obama on the Economy

  published November 20, 2008

  Three days after Barack Obama was elected the nation’s next president, he announced an economic transition team to... More >>

• Local Pols Grasp at Obama's Coattails, but "Change" Isn't on Their Minds

  published October 23, 2008

  The line snaked down the sidewalk and snarled traffic for three blocks. It wasn’t another jaded L.A. premiere, it was... More >>

• Asphalt Beats Artists in Venice

  published August 28, 2008

  VENICE IS KNOWN FOR its vicious, microbe-sized internecine political fights, but a recent one turned out to be a doozy,... More >>

• Grand Avenue Drenched in Misdirection

  published August 21, 2008

  The Luxe Grand Avenue Project, if ever built on a hunk of taxpayer-owned land downtown, will feature a glittery five-star hotel... More >>

• L.A. River Really Floats Their Boats

  published July 31, 2008

  WHILE MOST ANGELENOS WERE trapped in cars on rush-hour freeways July 26, a group of 13 kayakers and canoeists took to a... More >>

• Rolling Out L.A.'s Cement Carpet

  published July 24, 2008

  THE RUMOR IS THAT UPON seeing proposed designs for downtown’s long-awaited Civic Park, Eli Broad — the developer... More >>

• City Hall's E-Mail War on the Poor

  published July 17, 2008

  THE E-MAILS ARRIVED in the evening, like some kind of spy thriller. Terse. Unembellished. Mysterious. Even the place they... More >>

• Los Angeles City Hall as Slumlord

  published July 10, 2008

  This is an update of the original online story. Ted... More >>

• Grand Avenue: Is L.A. City Hall's Pet Project Foundering?

  published June 12, 2008

  WITH ESTIMATES OF TAXPAYER subsidies for the luxurious Grand Avenue project skyrocketing by tens of millions of dollars, and... More >>

• Eli Broad's Grand Avenue Follies

  published May 8, 2008

  Story Update, May 8: "The Grand" luxury... More >>

• Eli Broad's luxury Grand Avenue project is now half-owned by Dubai

  published April 10, 2008

  WHAT BECOMES A ROYAL FAMILY MOST? Could it be the $95 million in subsidies from Los Angeles taxpayers — the windfall... More >>

• LAUSD's Markham Asst. Principal Scandal

  published March 27, 2008

  WHEN LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS SUPERINTENDENT David Brewer declared recently that top district officials were unaware of the past... More >>

• Gang Crackdown or Police Overkill

  published March 6, 2008

  A 50-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was made to lie in dog feces with a gun to her head, a caretaker was forced to abandon a man stricken... More >>

• Proposition S: City Hall's Black Hole

  published February 7, 2008

  IT'S LESS THAN 12 HOURS before polls in Los Angeles will open, but a voter in the north end of the San Fernando Valley... More >>

• Prop. S: The Revolution May Be Taxed

  published January 24, 2008

  THE WRITERS GUILD ISN'T the only Los Angeles institution thinking about the financial implications of the digital realm.... More >>

• Lords of Your Thermostat?

  published January 17, 2008

  BREATHE EASIER, SAN FERNANDO VALLEY air-conditioning junkies lolling in meat-locker-cold summertime living rooms. A... More >>