David Freeman

CicLAvia Rules! How Bicyclists Made L.A. a Better Place

Jesse Marquez: Thorn of Industry

Who Replaces Jane Harman?

Hahn, Bowen and a cast of SoCal characters slug it out for Congress

Bernard Parks Was Targeted as Union Object Lesson

$1.2 million buys a lot of fear at L.A. City Hall if that's your aim

Bernard Parks v. Forescee Hogan-Rowles

Incumbent's rival in Los Angeles Council District 8 was forced from an investing board for gift-seeking

DWP: Reservoir Dogs

Can Austin Beutner negotiate a DWP swamp protected by top belligerent Raman Raj?

City Hall's 2010 DWP Debacle

How Beutner, Carr, Carson, D'Arcy, Freeman, Greuel, Raj, Santana, Szabo, Villaraigosa & Co. pushed L.A. to the cliff edge

City Controller Says DWP Standoff Could Help Put L.A. Nearly $300 Million In The Hole

Greuel.​The Los Angeles City Council's rejection of a .7-cents-per-kilowatt-hour rate hike sought by the Department of Water and Power for electricity customers could put the city deeper in the whole by helping to expand its current deficit from $212 million to as much as $290 million. In a T ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa Complains About Not Being Able To Tax Residents More

​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa decried the hurdles involved in raising city taxes during a discussion about the sources of the city's huge deficit, which will grow to nearly $700 million in July. In an interview with National Public Radio published over the weekend, the two-thirds vo ... More >>

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Molotov Cocktail Flung in the Cold

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS MOLOTOV COCKTAIL FLUNG IN THE COLD Photo courtesy of HighwaysThat's the PR description for the "Free Performative Mixtape (dub)zeck being staged at Highways on Saturday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m. And it's free. "Plunging Pa ... More >>

L.A.'s Solar-Energy Ballot-Measure Melodrama

David S. Freeman: City Hall "is capable of screwing up a two-car funeral"

Election '08: The Pros and Cons of California's Ballot Measures

By Daniel Heimpel, Max Taves and Jill Stewart Statewide Measures Proposition 1A $10 billion bond. High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act. Total price tag with interest: About $19 million. Proposition 1 would give the state the right to sell $10 billion in bonds to build an 800-mile high-speed tr ... More >>

The Eternal Dustbowl

Paying for the sins of L.A.’s water barons has created a half-billion-dollar boondoggle

DWP’s Salary Shock

Sweet contract proposal once again raises questions about who’s running L.A.’s public utility

All About Us

Antonio embarks on the path to redemption — again

The Lid Comes Off

Secret memo to Mayor Hahn lays blame for DWP’s woes on union control

The Black Avenger

Milton Crawford exposes the DWP’s big whitewash... racism, intimidation and harassment

Lord of the Race

Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

A Switch for Enron

An ex-trader’s admission of fixing California’s energy market is a challenge for prosecutors

Power Crisis II

New problems could short out Dave Freeman and his DWP legacy

It’s the Parking, Stupid!

'The Table' struggles to survive

See Riordan Run

The ex-mayor lines up his team for the governor’s race

A Case of Water Carrying

The DWP’s unlikely choice to work with Sacramento

Universal Lifeline

The power of Hollywood keeps lights on

Rocky’s Road

Delgadillo is driven to develop L.A. — and his career

Richard’s Bracelet

Disgraced Alatorre must stay in his home

Power Urges

Gray Davis’ pain is SCE’s gain

Shorting Out

Gray Davis is running low on time — and electricity

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

Get That Grid!

If California bails out the utilities, John Burton wants the state to get the power lines in return

Power to the People

Why David Freeman is smarter than Dick Riordan

Sacramento Scramble

State government struggles to undo its deregulation debacle

Daily Drips

Or, the power of a few ill-chosen words

The Lady From Where?

Meet Fran Pavley: Westside winner

Leave the Woman Alone

Little good and some harm will result from the latest fit over sheriff’s pension