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It's eerily quiet at the newly opened Scott Avenue gate, about an hour before the first pitch. Whereas the other four gates leading into Dodger Stadium are facing a crush of cars, the eight parking attendants at Scott Avenue have nothing more to keep them busy than a cool a......

Today, the number of daily newspapers (news-pa-per, n: a publication issued at regular and usually close intervals, especially daily or weekly, and commonly containing news, comment, features, and advertising) increased by exactly 50 percent, as the Los Angeles Register hit newsstands everywhere in certain places.  The Los Angeles Times is for sale, and......

Our story begins back in the heady days of March 2013. With Los Angeles knee-deep in the muck of the mayoral election, City Council president Herb Wesson announced the formation of a blue-ribbon committee to figure out just what the hell is wrong with the city's economy, find some way......

The scene comprised a who's who of education reformers in Los Angeles. LA Unified Superintendent John Deasy was there; so was Democratic former state Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, Parent Revolution founder Ben Austin, Teach Plus Executive Director John Lee, former President of the LA Fund Dan Chang, and even......

Greetings, intrepid reporter from the far-away eastern coast! And a hearty congratulations on convincing your editors to fly you out to the sparkling sunshine of our fair city, like many a New York Times columnist before you. I see you're here to write about our new mayor, Eric Garcetti. Actually, he's......

On March 13, after weeks of rumors, Pacifica Radio's board of directors voted to fire its executive director, Summer Reese, during what was essentially a conference call. But nothing is as simple as all that in the oldest and oddest public radio network in the country. Four days later, Reese......

Eric Preven isn't like other gadflies, full-time roustabouts who skulk the halls of L.A. government making public comment after comment until every bureaucrat is ready to put a gun to his or her head. Preven is different; he's... well, he's cleaner. And more normal looking. And: Prevent digs up good......

More and more, the streets of Los Angeles have been looking positively post-apocalyptic, lined as they are with deep gashes and potholes large enough to raise a family of ducks in comfort. Not to worry though, City Hall is here to help. And by help, we mean that they want......

Today marks the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, when the power plant was hit by a tsunami triggered by the T?hoku earthquake. Three of the six Fukushima nuclear reactors suffered meltdowns, spilling radioactive material into the bosom of the Pacific Ocean in what would become the worst nuclear......

The special election to replace the late Marguerite LaMotte on the Los Angeles Unified School Board got a much welcome dose of star wattage as reality TV's Omarosa Manigault entered the fray. You may remember Manigault from such reality TV series as The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice, where she competed against......