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Harrison Gray Otis

  • News

    September 1, 2011

    The Battle for Malibu Lagoon

    Should humans destroy Mother Nature in order to save it?

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    PBS' L.A. Times Documentary Rebroadcast

    If you missed Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times, PBS's documentary about the Chandler family and the city's newspaper of record they once controlled, be sure to catch the rebroadcast this Saturday at 9 p.m. on KCET. (Or watch it online on the station's Web site.) It's a hypnotic train-wrec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2009

    Statue of Limitations: L.A. Times Sculpture Kills Woman

    For nearly 90 years "General" Harrison Gray Otis' statue has glowered down from its pedestal at the changing human landscape of MacArthur Park. Otis, a Civil War veteran, took over the Los Angeles Times in the 1880s, became rich, broke strikes and declared from his editorial pulpit that "Los Angeles ... More >>

  • News

    January 17, 2002
  • Art+Books

    June 14, 2001

    The Chandlers

    Otis, Raymond, et al.

  • News

    October 14, 1999

    The New Unionism Finds a Home

    Once the nation’s most anti-union big city, L.A. has now become America’s most dynamic labor town

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