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  • News

    March 8, 2012

    Andrew Breitbart Was L.A.'s Implausible Native Son

    How L.A.'s liberal Westside produced a fierce conservative provocateur

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Andrew Breitbart's Reaction: Just As You Knew It Would Be

    Apologize? Never!​ In one of the least surprising media developments of the year, Andrew Breitbart, the conservative provocateur whose media company is based in Santa Monica, has reacted to an embarrassing journalistic error not by apologizing -- but by going on the attack. Tuesday we wonder ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Andrew Breitbart: Is There No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?

    ​ The past 36 hours have been a whirlwind for Andrew Breitbart, the right-wing bomb thrower who oversees a family of conservative Web sites -- Big Government, Big Journalism and Big Hollywood -- from an office building in Santa Monica. The quick history: He released a video that seemed to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Rep. Brad Sherman Unwittingly Gets Fox News Gum In His Hair Over Black Panther Case

    Rep. Brad Sherman​ Rep. Brad Sherman, a Democrat who represents the Valley, has become a Fox News star because he doesn't watch enough Fox News or read right wing blogs that have gone absolutely blotto about a 2008 voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party. The awesome sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Jerry Brown's 'Superfly' Investigation Into Acorn Pimp-'N'-Ho Scandal Concludes With No Arrests

    ​On the day when inner-city service organization Acorn shut its doors, State Attorney General Jerry Brown announced he has concluded that the group "committed no violation of criminal laws" but that it might have contributed to alleged voter registration fraud in San Diego. Following last yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Following Pimp-'N'-Ho Sting, Community Group Closes Its Doors

    ​Acorn, the controversial community service group caught up in an right-wing video sting that targeted its offices in Los Angeles and elsewhere last year, announced this week that it's closing up shop, with all its offices scheduled to shut their doors by April 1. And no, it doesn't seem to be ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 11, 2010

    Mickey Kaus: An Irritating Candidate

    ​Acorn, the controversial community service group caught up in an right-wing video sting that targeted its offices in Los Angeles and elsewhere last year, announced this week that it's closing up shop, with all its offices scheduled to shut their doors by April 1. And no, it doesn't seem to be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    Congressional Report Suggests L.A. Sting Against ACORN Crossed Legal Line

    ACORN.​A Congressional Research Service report into the controversial voter-registration work of nonprofit group ACORN -- which has long been a target of conservatives -- suggests that a right-wing video sting against local ACORN offices and those elsewhere could have been illegal. The sting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    L.A. Entangled In ACORN Scandal; Worker Says She's In Like Flynt

    ​Los Angeles had been safe from the ACORN scandal until now: Conservative activist James O'Keefe recently released the second in a series of videos that portray him and a prostitute visiting local offices of ACORN and asking for business help starting up a child-sex operation. The nonprofit gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    ACORN Scandalists Target L.A.

    It looks like Los Angeles is not getting a pass in the ACORN video scandal that targeted offices of the nonprofit housing and voting group and ended up showing some social workers ever too willing to help out a fake pimping and prostitution business.ACORN​ When the videos rolled out in Septem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Roseanne Barr Joins ACORN Fight to Save Home

    Tommy and Debora Beard are among the thousands of foreclosed Los Angeles home owners who have received eviction notices during the past year. The Beards' stretch of 101st Street forms the shape of a barbell in the middle of Watts, with cul de sacs at both ends. Their 1185-square-foot house, built in ... More >>

  • News

    November 6, 2008

    Florida's Electoral Do-Over: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

    In the battleground four years later

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Election '08: The Night Before Christmas

    I have a special guest blogger today. His name is Justin Warfield. You may know him as the frontman and songwriter for the great band She Wants Revenge. He's a very cool guy who has an interesting and emotional take on this election. His post is below. Also, here's a link to my piece on socialism, o ... More >>

  • News

    February 8, 2007

    Powered by Payments

    ACORN bills itself as grassroots, but it’s on the mayor’s payroll

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Antonio's Theory of Relativity

    Can the mayor really claim victory with his compromise school plan?

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    How Low Can They Go?

    As elected reps’ salaries soar, minimum-wage hike stays in limbo

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Rebel With a Plan

    Ed Reyes is angry. He wants the "zombies" in L.A.’s Planning Department out. He wants affordable-housing supporters in. And he wants his more polite colleagues on the City Council to help him pull it off.

  • News

    November 18, 2004

    Welcome to Planning 101

    The ins and outs of IZ

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    The Ground War

    Hanging with the Florida troops out to win — and keep — a Kerry victory

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Not in My Neighborhood Council

    What can save L.A.’s broken neighborhood councils?

  • News

    October 16, 2003

    High Stakes, Mixed Message

    Voters turned out in record numbers, even where the polls weren’t working

  • Columns

    August 21, 2003

    Race to the Finish

    Battling civil rights regressions in the big shadow of the recall

  • News

    July 24, 2003

    Battling Segregation

    L.A. opens debate on affordable housing

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    The Godfather

    Miguel Contreras and the New Los Angeles

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    A Place for Us?

    Why the city needs a real affordable housing program

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    Soul Battle

    The 9th Council District has new candidates and old problems

  • News

    December 21, 2000

    Doing the Medici

    Imagine world peace; then imagine Central City as the new San Marino

  • Calendar

    March 23, 2000

    The Lady From Where?

    Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

  • News

    July 29, 1999

    L.A. on $7.37 a Day

    One woman's life on General Relief

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