Erin Aubry

The turn of the century may inspire lofty speeches in some, but for the batch of state Assembly members being ousted by term limits this year, 2000 is bottom-line time, just another ring of the egg timer. The institution of term limits has had many politically unfortunate effects on elected......

First, a warning: The story you’re about to read is not news. It‘s not even a new development in an old story, an update in the strict sense of the word. Many people believe, not too privately, that this story doesn’t really have what the news business calls a hook,......

Photo by Debra DiPaolo In the latest uproar at Los Angeles Unified School District, no major player has been as public or as shadowy a presence as Genethia Hayes. Since being elected president in July, she has been the board’s public face and the chief purveyor of its increasingly relentless......

Juan Marquez was on a mission. The 45-year-old USC food-service worker had been on it for four years, ever since the workers‘ union contract lapsed and Marquez and his 350 fellow employees began petitioning management for a new one that would include stronger guarantees of job security, something USC officials......

During my last trip to New Orleans, four years ago, an older cousin I visited remarked over dinner that I bore more than a passing resemblance to Marie Laveau, the legendary voodoo priestess whose name became synonymous with the American contingent of the voodoo faithful, and with New Orleans mystique......