Henry Waxman

Can Kate Anderson, Mom of Twins, Fix LAUSD?

Kate Anderson vs. Steve Zimmer LAUSD Board Race: Mother of Twins, Lawyer and Activist Goes After Anti-Charter Zimmer

The heat is on. Kate Anderson, an activist mom and successful attorney with political chops -- she worked for Congress members Henry Waxman and Jane Harman -- will try to oust Steve Zimmer, the Westside's man on Los Angeles Unified School Board, in March 2013. Zimmer has emerged as a fierce oppone ... More >>

Congress Insider Trading: L.A. County Senators, Representatives Respond (or Don't)

NorCal's Nancy Pelosi finds nothing shady about her convenient investment in Visa.​As we learned on "60 Minutes" last night, many of the politicians we've elected to U.S. Congress have clearly been using their backdoor V.I.P. passes to gather exclusive intel on when to buy and sell stocks, bon ... More >>

Tony Cardenas Is Headed To Congress: Howard Berman Endorsement Clears Last Roadblock

Tony Cardenas​Looks like Councilman Tony Cardenas can start looking for apartments in Washington, D.C.Today, he got the endorsement of Rep. Howard Berman in his race for the new "Latino" Congressional seat in the San Fernando Valley. That appears to eliminate the most serious threat to Cardenas' c ... More >>

Janice Hahn Will Run For "Black" Seat in Congress

Janice Hahn​Well, this is gonna get ugly. Rep. Janice Hahn announced today that she will run in the redrawn 44th Congressional District.The district runs from Watts to San Pedro, and includes much of her former City Council district. So what's the problem?The problem is that this is one of three L ... More >>

Zev Yaroslavsky Will Replace Antonio Villaraigosa as Mayor, Experts Predict

If Zev runs, he’s the man to beat in 2013

Scott Svonkin's Personality Problem

How did a food-spewing bully get major Democratic backing to run for Community College trustee?

Marcy Winograd Is Back: Anti-War Activist Kicks Off Congressional Campaign Against Janice Hahn and Debra Bowen

Marcy Winograd​Marcy Winograd will kick off her congressional campaign today, billing herself as the "true progressive" in a race that also includes liberal L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn and liberal Secretary of State Debra Bowen.Winograd's entry into the race is bad news for Bowen, as she could s ... More >>

Surprise: Rest Of The Shoo-Ins Win* California State Senate, Assembly And Congressional Districts In Election 2010, Banding Together For Mass Extermination Of Opponents

In a startling upset, Gerrymandering Congressman Howard Berman wins again​*OK, so we fibbed in the headline. The final results aren't in. But -- thanks to sleazy incumbent fixing of elections in California by the Berman brothers -- the new crop of California Senators, Assemblymen and Congressm ... More >>

Marcy Winograd Finds an Issue

Challenger hopes that condemning Israel can win congressional seat

Group Alleges L.A. County Supervisors Met In Secret In D.C.

The supes.​A group called the Full Disclosure Network alleged over the weekend that recent Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors meetings announced as public forums were closed to outsiders in violation of state open-meeting rules. The meetings took place in Washington, D.C. May 5 and 6 as ... More >>

Mayor V. Bows To The Westside As He Dedicates Eastside Rail

Eastside son Antonio Villaraigosa beamed Saturday as he helped to dedicate the Metro Gold Line extension train that runs from downtown to East Los Angeles. Free rides are being offered Sunday to celebrate the opening and to lure the bus-riding masses. And while a vast majority of county transit user ... More >>

L.A. Light Rail? Or Keep Your Car?

Villaraigosa's rush aside, the sales-tax increase won't pay off for decades

Update: Judge Says, "Well Rec-u-u-u-se Me!"

A 50-word fax sent from Judge Alex Kozinski this morning has effectively ended the current obscenity trial of U.S v. Isaacs.

Comments from around the Web: Chuck Philips' debunked Tupac story

Among the hundreds of responses to this week's debunked LA Times story on the murder of Tupac Shakur, and Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' alleged involvement in it, have been a few fascinating and incendiary allegations. What follows are a few of the most intriguing. From an anonymous post to the Velvet ... More >>

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

Tarmac Rage

Getting an earful from millionaires’ jets at Santa Monica Airport

Taser 'Em All

Solving Smog

Our suggestions for ways out of this mess

They Shoot News Anchors: Part II

Media moguls, not looters, killed Katrina’s truth tellers

Sympathy for the Devil

Everything you thought you knew about steroids is wrong

Wake Up, Antonio

Tuned-out voters favored none-of-the-above

Is It Good for the Jews?

The chosen people choose a mayor

Start Making Sense

An open letter to Miguel Contreras

Lost in the Smog

Environmentalists say the energy industry helped write Clear Skies. Yeah? So what else is new?

George and the Governator

So why do Californians despise Bush and embrace Arnold?

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Tom DeLay and his bid to buy the Texas Legislature

When Might Turns Right

Golly GE, why Big Media is pro-Bush

Lonely Pioneers

Bush gives the boot to two of his richest pals in Texas

Liar Liar, House on Fire

The beauty and perils of making stuff up

Disassembling the 47th

One of L.A.’s truly diverse districts may be on the verge of big — and unwelcome — change

Watching the Detectives

With Big Brother getting bigger, the nerds battle back

The Griles Files

Inside Bush’s plan for California coast

In Search of Gay Leaders

And, once we find them, what should they do for Los Angeles?

The Unhappy Warrior

Gray Davis: The rise of America’s most calculating politician

Letters

Rank and Yank at Enron

Or, the fine art of bankruptcy

An Appealing Shade of Green

Denise Munro Robb for City Council

L.A. Lawyer

The insiders’ race for city attorney

Some Came Running

The 32nd District’s crowded track

Rocking and Rolling

Villaraigosa makes his move

Voting Rites

Chaos and patriotism at a Hollywood precinct

Letters

On the Brink

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

The Ovations, 2000: In Mixed Companies

What Los Angeles Needs To Know About the Democrats

Can the world’s oldest continuous political party regain its majority? Its activists? Its purpose?

Make Nice

The GOP goes gooey

Nader Speaks

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