Barbara Boxer

Wendy Greuel's Inside Game

The controller's union ties could be her biggest advantage in the race for L.A. mayor — or her biggest liability

Inside L.A.'s Chemtrails Community, a Group That Thinks We're Being Sprayed By Toxic Chemicals

On a recent Saturday morning, a small buzz of activity emanates from the stately Wilshire Ebell Theatre abutting Hancock Park. This is not a theatrical production but rather "Consciousness Beyond Chemtrails," a conference for those sharing belief in "chemtrails" -- a theory alleging that the gov ... More >>

A Guide to L.A.'s Jewish Street Art

Most Angelenos wouldn't associate Jews with spray paint and wheat-paste, but what about murals? Twenty years ago, before the city began a war on street art and pushed murals and graffiti underground, targeting artists with lawsuits and jail time, the city's diverse communities embraced a flourishing ... More >>

Earthquake Warning System Is Running in Los Angeles, But Only A Few Are Hooked Up

What if we were to tell you that L.A. has an earthquake warning system that pretty much works, but that only a few folks will get the precious alerts? It's true. The U.S. Geological Survey's prototype "Shake Alert" system has been running since January. It can theoretically warn you as much as 90 ... More >>

Matt Fong, Former California Treasurer And Longtime Angeleno, Dies at 57

Matt Fong.​Updated at the bottom with reaction from L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich. Matt Fong, a longtime Angeleno and onetime U.S. Senate hopeful, has died, according to the Sacramento Bee. Fong's mother is beloved Democrat March Fong Eu, who was elected California's Secretary of St ... More >>

Political Action Group MoveOn Holds 'Rally to Defend American Dream:' Urging Senators to Ease Proposed $100 Billion Budget Cuts

Adrienne Hatrick, retired city employee, believes in 'the people that brought you the weekend.' ​Yesterday evening MoveOn, a political action group, hosted a "Rally to Defend the American Dream" outside of the west side's Palms Ranch Library. The message? It was for Senators Barbara Boxer an ... More >>

California Election Results: Statewide Democrats Fend Off Republican Wave, Barack Obama Should Study Golden State for 2012

Colin Young-WolffPresident Barack Obama at USC​On a night when the Republican party took over the House of Representatives and made things tight in the U.S. Senate, Democratic President Barack Obama should study what California Democrats did right in their statewide races, fending off possibl ... More >>

California Proposition 23 Election Results: Big Green Defeats Big Oil in Contentious Showdown Over What's Best for California's Economy

"No on 23" campaign poster​Update, 11:46 p.m.: With 39 percent of California precincts reporting, Prop. 23 is heading for a major loss -- 59 percent of voters oppose the ballot measure while 41 percent support it. Opponents of Proposition 23 won a major victory tonight, shooting down the bal ... More >>

FAA Halts All Private Los Angeles Air Traffic To Make Space For Obama: Dude, Who Do You Think You Are?

Associated PressTake your time, it's no big deal​Los Angeles drivers aren't the only ones being screwed over by President Obama this Friday afternoon. The president's journey to the USC campus will also be cushioned by a blockade of air traffic within eight miles of LAX and downtown Los Ange ... More >>

Barack Obama Rally At USC Runs Long

Ozomatli: Is this who we came to see?​More than an hour into today's presidential rally at USC, actor Jamie Foxx led the crowd chant of "We're not exhausted."It's not much of a rallying cry. But for much of the crowd of 37,500, it wasn't even true. Attendees were made to stand in line for hours be ... More >>

Beware The Motorcade: President Obama's Visit To Los Angeles Friday Will Cause Street Closures, And We Have The List

We hope we're not caught in Obama's traffic.​Here's the fun part of President Obama's visit to USC: We'll soon get to debate about which of his recent L.A. trips, his Westside appearance in August or his Trojan-campus campaign stop for Sen. Barbara Boxer at 1:30 p.m. Friday, tied up the most t ... More >>

Poll Settles Debate Of USC vs. UCLA's Presidential Speakers (Barack Obama and Bill Clinton): And The Winner Is ...

JMRosenfeld via FlickrIn your face, USC.​We asked you recently who was getting the better deal: USC, which will host sitting president Barack Obama Friday, or UCLA, which saw Bill Clinton last Friday. It's a tough question: Obama is the most-most powerful man in the world. Clinton was a two-t ... More >>

USC Is Getting Visit By Obama; UCLA Gets Clinton: Who's Getting The Better Speaker?

Bill Clinton is at UCLA tonight.​Those dueling visits by presidents Obama and Clinton we told you about have turned into another classic bout between archrivals USC and UCLA, and we have to ask: Which school is getting the better speaker? Obama is heading to USC next Friday (Oct. 22) to speak ... More >>

Presidential Overload? Obama, Clinton Visiting Los Angeles One Week Apart

Obama returns to L.A. next week.​POTUS overload, L.A? President Clinton is visiting Los Angeles Friday to whip up support for gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown. Then President Obama is back in town the next Friday raise funds for U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who's defending her seat. After th ... More >>

U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer Vs. Carly Fiorina Gets Nastier On KPPC: Fiorina's Ideas Are "A Disaster" And Boxer "Became A Multi-Millionaire" Instead Of Working In Senate

Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina​In one of the most adversarial senate races that Californians have seen, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, the incumbent Democrat, and businesswoman Carly Fiorina, the Republican challenger, clashed at a debate sponsored by KPCC 89.3 FM and La Opinion, ... More >>

Jerry Brown v. Meg Whitman: Back To Dead Heat

​About two weeks ago we told you how it seemed like Republican Meg Whitman had finally broken through against Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown in the governor's race, opening an 8 point lead in a Rasmussen poll. But the race has already tightened.

Prop. 8 Ruling: Thousands Rally In West Hollywood, Long Beach

Steve La​ Hours after a federal judge struck down the Prop. 8 ban on gay marriage, using strong language to affirm the civil rights of gays and lesbians, demonstrators began celebrating Wednesday evening. The joy and satisfaction were tempered with the knowledge, however, that an appeal is com ... More >>

Mickey Kaus Organizes One-Man Senate Debate, Hopes Barbara Boxer Will Show

lecturnsunlimited.com​Democratic challenger and Venice-based mega-blogger Mickey Kaus wants a debate with incumbent U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer so bad that he literally set the stage for just such an event Tuesday. His campaign has reserved a room at San Francisco's Golden Gateway Holiday Inn fo ... More >>

Get Equal Interrupts, Annoys Obama at L.A. Fund Raiser

Five members of Get Equal, a newly-established grassroots gay rights group based in California, interrupted and annoyed President Barack Obama as he spoke at a Democratic fund raiser for Senator Barbara Boxer at the California Science Center in Los Angeles last night.Patrick Range McDonaldGet Equal ... More >>

Self-Styled Hollywood Producer Quintana Wants To Speak At Dem Convention

Brian Quintana.​Following news this week that mega-blogger and candidate for U.S. Senate Mickey Kaus was turned down for speaker's slot at the state Democratic convention in Los Angeles next week, self-styled Hollywood producer Brian Quintana is now angling for just such a slot. Good luck. Th ... More >>

Kaus Pulls 'Files' From Slate, Goes Indie

Courtesy of Stephen KausMickey Kaus.​Indicating the seriousness of his spirit in waging a Quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate against incumbent Barbara Boxer, mega-blogger Mickey Kaus announced Thursday that he's moving his blog away from Slate and hosting it himself in order to drive more traff ... More >>

Hollywood Backs Boxer, Kaus Fights the Machine

Make no mistake, Hollywood's biggest political players are lining up behind the 2010 re-election bid of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, The Hill has reported.Film director Steven Spielberg​From David Geffen to Barbra Streisand to Steven Spielberg, the liberal/entertainment establishment gave Boxer bar ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Optimistic That 'Subway To The Sea' Can Happen In 10 Years

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa returned from a trip to Washington, D.C. optimistic about his plan to accelerate several transit projects, including his beloved "subway to the sea" that would take rail from the Miracle Mile to Santa Monica. His plan to compact 30 years worth of work in ... More >>

Tom Campbell Aims For Barbara Boxer's Senate Seat

​Former Congressman Tom Campbell announced in Los Angeles Thursday that he's pulling out of a crowded Republican slate in California's gubernatorial race to challenge Democrat Barbara Boxer for her U.S. Senate seat. "I initially made the decision to run for governor because I believe that my ... More >>

Broke, Schwarzenegger begs President Obama for $8 billion. Is a California default coming?

Wow, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just continues to flounder and flub and flim-flam his way through one of the worst performances by a governor in the United States even as he gets helped to the bottom by one of the worst full-time legislatures ever elected in the United States -- or so the polls ... More >>

UPDATE: Developer And Westside Power Player Doug Ring Might Have Committed Suicide

Developer Doug Ring was found dead in his Brentwood home Thursday, and a coroner's official says the attorney and husband of former Westside city Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski might have committed suicide.​ "The initial report from the police said that was a possibility,'' said coroner's inv ... More >>

Will the Next President Try to Out-green California?

A solar White House

The Termlimitnator

Arnold renders the Republicans obsolete

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

On Borrowed Time

Will a state committee step in and save Venice’s Lincoln Place?

On the Map

Southern California’s last wild river gets a national spotlight, but will it matter?

Dirty Prices

Governor and Barbara Boxer push ethanol

Goldberg Flies Air America

Music-biz biggie pilots a new radio hit

Riding the Storm Out

Democrats huddle with only hope to get them through the night

Letters

Hummer Bummer

Going for a test drive the day after explosions rip through a dealership

Check This Out

Libraries quietly sound alarm against PATRIOT Act

A New Deck

Recall talk forces Gray to make nice with Indian casinos

A Shot at Davis

Darrell Issa has $200 million, a colorful past and wants to topple one of the state’s most unpopular governors

Near-Perfect Recall

Mr. California

No RAVE Review

Congress rushes bill targeting nightclub operators

Time Capsules

Living Next to a War Factory

Neighbors of closed Aerojet plant worry about their health and water

Tupperware Lady

Shots in the Dark

Filmmakers, educators, politicians stand up to campus violence

Faith Made Visible

Believers take divine inspiration to tasks

The GOP's Latino Problem

State Republicans talk the talk, can't walk

Wrong Year for Rock Ribs

Outmoded stance will cost Rebublicans

Feinstein Lite

Jane Harman tries out the open primary