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Freight Transportation

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    [Updated:] Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: This Saturday

    Update: 5/14 3:52 p.m. Did opportunistic thieves help themselves to some of the Stamp Out Hunger donations in Los Angeles? Unfortunately, yes. There were isolated reports on Saturday of unofficial vehicles driving down streets and taking off with the food bags, which were intended to be donations fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Amtrak's Ancestors: The Huntington's Exhibit on the History of the Transcontinental Railroad

    Long before studios, hippies, method actors and reality-show wannabes headed out west, the Pacific Coast was a destination for farmers, miners, prospectors and other wagon-wheeling homesteaders who were looking for a new way of life. Two years after California struck gold in 1848, it became a part o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    PCP Bust in L.A. Worth $100 Million Reminds Us That PCP Still Exists

    Cholos from the 1988 Dennis Hopper movie 'Colors.'​Who knew PCP was even around anymore? What is this, a 1980s gang movie with cholos wearing white t-shirts and puffing on "sherm?" Anyway, federal agents say they found a whopping $100 million worth of the drug -- by the gallon. One-hundred-th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

    Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Statue of Liberty on U.S. Postage Stamp Is Actually Newer, Hotter Vegas Version From 'New York-New York'

    ​​Everything's sexier in Vegas! Even New York's world-famous Statue of Liberty, apparently. Her likeness stands over the Las Vegas strip, torch raised...

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Top 10 Bands That Should Have Broken Up Instead of the White Stripes

    10 Bands Who Should Break Up

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Van Lines Say More People (Who Can Afford Movers) Coming To California

    Welcome to California, Oklahomans.​If you agree that California knows how to party, perhaps you're not alone. America's major moving van lines, United, Atlas and Allied, report that the Golden State, despite its subprime-housing crisis, a state government that's billions underwater and a rece ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Listen: New Dntel Tracks From Upcoming Album "After Parties" (Free MP3)

    Listen: New Dntel Tracks From Upcoming Album "After Parties" (Free MP3)

  • Calendar

    August 5, 2010

    Love That Dirty Water

    Listen: New Dntel Tracks From Upcoming Album "After Parties" (Free MP3)

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Who Would Lose the Most from an L.A. Boycott of Arizona?

    ​Say hello to Swift Transportation. The Phoenix-based firm is one of the nation's largest trucking companies, and the biggest player in the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Trucks Program.It also has the most to lose from Councilwoman Janice Hahn's proposed boycott of Arizona -- $18 million, according t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2010

    Trial Opens in Clean Trucks Case

    ​While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was giving his State of the City address at the Police Administration Building yesterday, a federal trial was getting underway a couple blocks north. The trial will determine the fate of one of the mayor's most ambitious initiatives: the Port of L.A.'s Clean Truck ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2010

    World's Smallest Postal Service: How Small Can You Write?

    ​ Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs runs the World's Smallest Postal Service. She turns your regular-sized sentiments into very tiny letters. She says she has no plans yet to come to Los Angeles, but would certainly love to. If you'd like to see her here, send her an email. Or write her a lett ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 5, 2009

    Writing the Trains: Graffiti on Freight Cars

    ​ Lea Redmond of Leafcutter Designs runs the World's Smallest Postal Service. She turns your regular-sized sentiments into very tiny letters. She says she has no plans yet to come to Los Angeles, but would certainly love to. If you'd like to see her here, send her an email. Or write her a lett ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    Are 19 L.A. communities losing their U.S. Post Offices?

    By Donna BarstowThe U.S. Postal Service, hammered just like government postal services throughout Europe and North America by a massive drop-off in snail mail caused by the Internet and email, is deciding the future of 19 Post Office branches in Los Angeles. No word which ones will get shuttered. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Is L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich Screwing Over a Little Guy?

    Ever since his arrival as the new Los Angeles City Attorney this summer, Carmen Trutanich has loved to come across as a man of the people.L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich​Trutanich has sparred with the L.A. City Council to the delight of many community activists; he has also personally held a t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Update: Naser 'Jimmy' Nasralla Finds A Lawyer

    Naser Nasralla, the homeless man known as "Jimmy" who lives in a tent near a stretch of railroad tracks in Northridge, woke up this Monday after only a few hours sleep. As usual, he fed the stray, abandoned cats in his neighborhood until the early morning. But now Jimmy needed to take care of himsel ... More >>

  • News

    July 30, 2009

    Jimmy On the Edge of Town

    A Homeless Christian-Muslim From Palestine Pitches a Tent Behind Bed Bath & Beyond in Northridge. Then Come the Railroad Men and Feral Cat Activists.

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    NRDC Sues U.S. Over Clean Trucks Program

    The Santa Monica-based Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the Federal Maritime Trucks Entering L.A. HarborCommission to learn why the government agency tried to block implementation of parts of the Clean Trucks Program that the L.A. and Long Beach ports are trying to enforce. The NRDC had fi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    MR. WILSON AND HIS PROFANE COPS

    The Santa Monica-based Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the Federal Maritime Trucks Entering L.A. HarborCommission to learn why the government agency tried to block implementation of parts of the Clean Trucks Program that the L.A. and Long Beach ports are trying to enforce. The NRDC had fi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Train-ing Day Shocker: NTSB Releases Report on Metrolink Engineer's Ride-Along Program

    Federal investigators have revealed for the first time that not only had Metrolink engineer Robert Sanchez allowed youthful train enthusiasts to ride along with him in his locomotive's cab, but also permitted some to work the train's controls. In fact, Sanchez, an avid text-messenger, was busy makin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Prop 8 Donors Fear Outing Today's N.Y. Times looks at nervous supporters of the California measure banning same-sex marriage, now that a final report revealing their addresses  is due out.Lost in Space Actor Dies Bob May, the man inside the Robby the Robot suit in the 1960s TV series, Lost in S ... More >>

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    A Heavy Load

    The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

  • Columns

    December 14, 2006

    Black Man Walking

    The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks. But do they have a plan for the truckers?

  • News

    June 8, 2006

    Tank Goodness

    A shipping giant volunteers to slash emissions at the port. But why?

  • Art+Books

    June 8, 2006

    Freight Train Graffiti

    A shipping giant volunteers to slash emissions at the port. But why?

  • News

    April 27, 2006

    Air Board Revs Up for Clean Air

    And truckers get in gear to protest low wages

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Trucker Talk

    And truckers get in gear to protest low wages

  • News

    December 15, 2005

    The Greening of Ships

    Can California stop air pollution out at sea?

  • News

    September 22, 2005

    Ports of Cough

    What it will take to clean up the mess caused by ships and trucks

  • News

    May 5, 2005

    Enron Forgotten

    Congress may stick us with a natural-gas rip-off

  • Film+TV

    May 27, 2004

    Lush Life

    Bukowski in and out of his cups

  • Music

    November 20, 2003

    Modestly Universal

    Bukowski in and out of his cups

  • News

    July 31, 2003

    Sleeping With the Pigeons

    Bukowski in and out of his cups

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Port in a Storm

    Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

  • News

    March 20, 2003

    Ports of Cash

    Out-of-court settlement could force shakeup at Port of Los Angeles

  • News

    August 1, 2002

    The Hobohemians

    On the rails with the new freedom riders

  • Art+Books

    January 25, 2001

    Art & Commerce

    At an intersection near you

  • Art+Books

    January 20, 2000

    Quack-in-the-Box

    How did the U.S.'s biggest mail-order health-remedy peddler find my mailbox?

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    My Favorite New Year’s

    A personal history of the ’60s

  • News

    July 22, 1999

    Letters

    A personal history of the ’60s

  • News

    July 8, 1999

    Box Busters

    Post office puts squeeze on private mail service

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