Greg Goldin

Kicking Assets

Greg Goldin
Photo by Ted Soqui From its inception in 1996, energy deregulation in California had been, above all else, the near-silent transfer of $20 billion from consumers’ pocketbooks to the bank accounts of the state’s three investor-owned utilities. That vast sum flowed to Pacific Gas and Electric, Southern California Edison, and,......
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The Moral Minority

Greg Goldin
”I sometimes think,“ writes Norman G. Finkelstein, whose parents survived the Warsaw ghetto and the concentration camps, ”that American Jewry ’discovering‘ the Nazi Holocaust was worse than its having been forgotten. True, my parents brooded in private; the suffering they endured was not publicly validated. But wasn’t that better than......

Go Climb a Mountain

Greg Goldin
It was reported that the day before David Brower died, the father of the modern American conservation movement punched his absentee ballot for Ralph Nader. Through nearly six decades of activism, Brower never once relaxed his militancy. He wasn‘t one to cut his conscience to accommodate the needs of power......

Silent Times

Greg Goldin
So what guidance did the Los Angeles Times offer at the end of Election 2000, which its editorial writers called the “tightest presidential campaign in decades,” with “Americans . . . as closely divided as at any time in the last 100 years.” None. That’s right. The Times, the nation’s......

Banners Yet Wave

Greg Goldin
ABC finished in third place on Sunday night’s ”Who Wants To Win an Emmy,“ but on the streets of L.A., the nation‘s most-watched network was still on top of its game. As part of the buildup for its Emmy telecast, the Disney-owned network paid the city of Los Angeles $3,400......

The Missing Graduates

Greg Goldin
Four seniors -- barred from graduation for their roles in an underground campus newspaper -- lost their last-minute court bid to attend commencement ceremonies at Palisades Charter High School. Last week‘s ruling, handed down a day before graduation, sustained the right of school officials to punish students involved with the......
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Speech — Wild and Free

Greg Goldin
A raucous, churlish, incendiary underground newspaper that appeared two months ago at Palisades High School is giving the teachers, administrators and students at the Westside campus a stark lesson in freedom of speech. The four-page samizdat, called The Occasional Blow Job, premiered on March 2, and 10 days later, angry......
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Neighborhood Watch

Greg Goldin
In the Cold War’s cocksure youth, when the light of atmospheric atomic blasts had the life-giving halo of the sun and “downwind” was a fraternity joke, the U.S. government had a plan for the Great Basin’s high deserts. America, to beat the USSR, needed a wasteland in which it could......
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Neighborhood Watch

Greg Goldin
In the Cold War‘s cocksure youth, when the light of atmospheric atomic blasts had the life-giving halo of the sun and “downwind” was a fraternity joke, the U.S. government had a plan for the Great Basin’s high deserts. America, to beat the USSR, needed a wasteland in which it could......
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Neighborhood Watch

Greg Goldin
Illustration by Travis Coburn IN THE COLD WAR'S COCKSURE YOUTH, when the light of atmospheric atomic blasts had the life-giving halo of the sun and "downwind" was a fraternity joke, the U.S. government had a plan for the Great Basin's high deserts. America, to beat the USSR, needed a wasteland......