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Educator Brian C. Johnson: The California Teachers Association doesn't want his ideas gaining a toehold in the legislature.; Credit: PHOTO BY NANETTE GONZALES

Eric Bauman v. Gloria Romero in Assembly District 46

Correction: The results of this race are still to close to call. It is truly a curiosity of the June 5 primary that an obscure California state Assembly race in the San Fernando Valley has become a proxy war over which wing of the Democratic Party controls school reform in......
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Proposition 29 Cigarette Tax

This millennium has not been kind to cigarette smokers. Each year more locales prevent them from lighting up: restaurants, bars, beaches, parks. Since 1999, 47 states have raised taxes on tobacco. Strange as it may seem, left-of-left California is not among them. California's cigarette tax, 87 cents per pack, ranks......
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L.A. Overspends by $27,378 an Hour

You'd be surprised at what goes on just below the surface of Los Angeles City Hall, which is mired in years of fiscal cutbacks that at various times have decimated the hours at 73 public libraries, cut maintenance at parks, forced early retirements and now are seriously slowing down fire......
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Surfers Rise in Malibu Politics

Roughly 300 surfers, activists and residents watched the Malibu City Council on April 9. That's more than 2 percent of the population of Malibu. If the same...
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Los Angeles Gadflies on Fire

As Councilman Tom LaBonge looked down at the comment cards for item 15 on March 23, he may have felt a sense of dread creeping in. He read the names out loud: "Arnold Sachs, John Walsh, and Mr. ... Bonge? Is there a person Bonge here?" Some jokester, no doubt......
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Tim Leiweke's Green NFL Stadium

On Christmas Eve 1994, both the Rams and the Raiders played their last football games in L.A. The Rams left for St. Louis, while the Raiders returned to Oakland. Since then, a generation of Angelenos has grown up without the NFL in its backyard. If Tim Leiweke, president of AEG,......
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CicLAvia Rules! How Bicyclists Made L.A. a Better Place

Click for "CicLAvia: Real Rydaz, Kings of South L.A. Cycling." Click for "CicLAvia: Rolling Photo Booth Lets You Snap Yourself." And here's the CicLAvia Route Map. They said it would never work here. This wasn't San Francisco, this wasn't New York, and this was most certainly not Portland. This was......