Just when it looks like grassroots politics is dead and buried in Los Angeles, a candidate named Joe Buscaino, who's never run for anything but class presid...
What a dump. That was Athena Shlien's thought when she saw huge Malibu Lagoon for the first time. She was walking through a marsh that makes up part of the lagoon on her way to Surfrider Beach, perhaps the most popular surfing spot in L.A. County and the historic epicenter......
For decades, except when the courts stepped in, entrenched California legislators drew up the electoral maps, creating bizarrely shaped, heavily gerrymandered v...
For Stephen Box, it all began in the summer of 2005, when he was almost killed by a bus. It was Bike Summer, a series of bicycle-related events all over Los Angeles, and Box and his wife, Enci, were riding their bikes home from a screening at the Echo Park......
On Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, an ashen-faced New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke to a grieving America of the fallen firefighters and office workers killed in ...
Call it California's Tea Party moment. Nationwide, voter frustration was focused on Democrats in Washington, but in California anti-incumbent sentiment turn...
