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  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Ecstasy Emblazoned With Obama's Likeness Found in California And 14 Other States

    Springtime brings party season back to Southern California, the rave capital of the nation. But what's that on your tongue? Obama, you say? Be careful. Obama, as any Republican will tell you, might not be all that he claims to be. Consider:

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Anchor Baby Benefits in L.A. Cost Taxpayers $54 Million in June: County Leader Mike Antonovich is Pissed at Price of Illegals

    Antonovich.​L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich is continuing his campaign against illegal aliens, announcing that undocumented families that have so-called American-citizen anchor babies cost area taxpayers $54 million in welfare benefits in June alone. He says the projected cost of such ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Watchdog Group Sues DOJ for Refusing to Release Congressman Jerry Lewis Investigation Records

    Republican Congressman Jerry Lewis​Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice wrapped up an investigation into Congressman Jerry Lewis, a 17-term Republican from Redlands, for improperly handling earmarks and government contracts. The DOJ decided not to prosecute and everyone involved moved ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2010

    Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

    Republican Congressman Jerry Lewis​Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Justice wrapped up an investigation into Congressman Jerry Lewis, a 17-term Republican from Redlands, for improperly handling earmarks and government contracts. The DOJ decided not to prosecute and everyone involved moved ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Daily News Reports "Midnight Run" to Spend Food Stamps; Bloomberg Shakes His Finger at Poor Soda-Drinkers

    Karen Apricot New Orleans/FlickrFood stamps accepted.​ We've told you before. Food stamps are hotter than the flames that hissed around that truck of yams on I-5 Thursday morning (where was a marshmallow avalanche and a dusting of brown sugar when you needed them, right?). If you require fu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Food Stamp Use Bigger Than Bacon Chocolate

    NCReedplayerFood stamps​ Piggy chocolate. House-made pickles. New Nordic Cuisine. Food stamps. No, it's not as sexy as reindeer tartare with a lichen gastrique or a bar of fair-trade dark studded with smoked bacon bits, but the humble food stamp is really catching on. According to a Sept. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    California Welfare Cards Can Withdraw Cash From Casino ATMs

    ​A Los Angeles Times review of records found that California welfare recipients are able to withdraw cash using their welfare cards on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the state. The Times crosschecked ATM addresses on the Department of Social Services website with addresses ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2010

    The Schwarzenegger Experiment A Big Fail, Poll Says

    ​Nearly six in ten statewide voters believes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will leave the state in worse shape than when he first took office in 2003, according to the latest Field Poll. Given the Golden State's robust unemployment and intractable budget politics, the results aren't all that surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • 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

    October 30, 2009

    Villaraigosa Lofts a Hail Mary at Transit Projects

    ​​Perhaps to remind us that he can attract media attention simply by suggesting pie-in-the-sky ideas, Mayor Villaraigosa yesterday and today made headlines by declaring that he will do in 10 years what everyone says will take 30. That is, he vowed to fast-track several rail projects throughout L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    L.A. Loses Out on Federal Money for Water and Power Improvements

    DWP's downtown headquarters​Only two cities in L.A. County will receive a portion of the White House's $3.4 billion stimulus funding for energy efficiency programs. Los Angeles is not one of them. Burbank and Glendale will each get $20 million in federal funding to help them develop "smart grid" p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Today in Photographs: October 6, 1989

    ​Four hundred protesters demonstrate for more AIDS research funding outside the Federal Building in Westwood.Michael Haering, LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    L.A.'s Homeleand Security Spending Spree

    In 2004 the L.A. Weekly examined the free-spending ways of the Department of Homeland Security, calling DHS largesse to academia and local law enforcement agencies "a 21st-century New Deal for the military-industrial complex." Now, on the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a report is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    L.A.: Where's Our Stimulus Money?

    If Los Angeles was thinking Christmas in July as far as stimulus money is concerned, it's got another think coming. Today Bay Area communities from Vallejo to Hayward are celebrating the windfalls their police departments are receiving -- nearly $71 million that will, among other things, add or reta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    U.S. Grant to Speed Cops' DNA Logjam

    Cal State L.A. announced today it will receive a $1 million federal grant to help clear the backlog of DNA samples that have been stored for pending rape cases. That's a bit of good news following Sheriff Lee Baca's recent declaration that the budget crunch will force his department to halt the head ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Count 'Em or Lose 'Em After L.A. lost out on $184 million of federal funds because it undercounted its population during the 2000 census, the city will make extra efforts to survey immigrants in 2010. L.A. TimesGOP Reps Change Tunes Obama budget critics Buck McKeon and Kevin McCarthy, two conservati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Villaraigosa Skips Town . . . Again

    It's no secret that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lives the life of a jet-setter. Last summer, for example, he took 10 trips in 10 weeks to New York City, Chicago, Hawaii, England, San Francisco, Israel and more. But not everyone knows that when Villaraigosa is away all that time, someone e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Torched Dancer Suspects Nabbed A joint effort by police and U.S. Marshals netted the two suspects who allegedly set bikini dancer Roberta Busby afire in the early morning hours of last Thursday. Rianne Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Petrillo, 22, were run to ground at a San Fernando Valley motel ... More >>

  • News

    September 4, 2008

    Storm Over Palin Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowhere

    Hurricane Sarah

  • Film+TV

    August 21, 2008

    I.O.U.S.A.: Market Scare

    Don't put too much stock in this panic-inducing documentary

  • Columns

    May 11, 2006

    Blessed Homegirl

    The Virgin of Guadalupe in Los Angeles

  • News

    November 17, 2005

    Go, Henry, Go

    Light at the end of the Red Line tunnel

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    It Comes From the Garage

    These do-it-yourself misfits just might win the DARPA Grand Challenge

  • News

    August 18, 2005

    The Subway Mayor

    How a bus-only politician — and a car-obsessed city — are learning to love the underground

  • News

    April 28, 2005

    By the Numbers

    A Statistical Guide to Rental Los Angeles

  • News

    January 20, 2005

    To Succeed, Must We Secede?

    A Statistical Guide to Rental Los Angeles

  • News

    June 24, 2004

    Condom Wars

    New guidelines gut HIV prevention — and endanger young people’s lives

  • News

    April 1, 2004

    University of Fear

    How the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a big man on campus

  • Columns

    March 4, 2004

    The Great Race

    25 cars, no drivers, racing toward Las Vegas for a $1 million prize — and the future of the U.S. military

  • News

    January 22, 2004

    Watching the Detectives

    With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Doomsday Plans

    Latino legislators ready to take on Gray Davis and his proposed social-service cuts

  • News

    June 28, 2001

    Almost Aboard

    Eastside L.A. ponders its transit future

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Pretender

    Illegitimate and ill at ease, George W. Bush begins what looks to be a retro presidency

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    Let Them Eat Cars

    California’s a tightwad on food stamps

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    On the Brink

    W. on the verge of power, America at the edge of the abyss

  • Stage

    November 16, 2000

    The Ovations, 2000: In Mixed Companies

    W. on the verge of power, America at the edge of the abyss

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Bill and Al's Excellent Adventure

    How Bill Bradley Learned to be a Principled Liberal, but not how to Campaign, and how Al Gore Learned to be a Terrific Campaigner, while Trashing his Party's Historic Principles.

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Tuned In, Turned On and Locked Out

    KPFA struggle recalls ’60s, but this time lefties are fighting each other

  • News

    May 20, 1999

    Weld Wars

    Lincoln loses control over study to prevent collapse of skyscrapers

  • Calendar

    December 10, 1998

    Impeach the President!

    Well, not really, but it sure as hell would screw the GOP, and might just save Social Security

  • News

    October 15, 1998

    Letters

    ...The people who were interviewed said that they felt they had been stopped because they were minorities, pointing to the fact that the police had not issued them tickets. As a working police officer, I hear too much of this in the media...

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    L.A. School Officials Dodge State Auditors

    Millions in federal dollars diverted to salaries

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