J. Patrick Coolican

Both UCLA and USC did well in a Wall Street Journal survey of 480 companies that hired 43,000 bachelor's degree graduates in the past year. The Journal asked the employers to rank the schools based -- presumably -- on the quality of the graduates. (Sorry, can't find it online; it's......

Suddenly a question that's always been asked about Jerry Brown is back in the forefront: What planet is he living on? This time, he's decided that publicly insulting former President Bill Clinton would be a good idea in a year when Democrats are dispirited and need some rousing from such......

This morning the weirdly named Board of Referred Powers, which is a special L.A. City Council committee, will meet to discuss what has become a strangely controversial issue -- airport food. In short, everyone agrees the food is lousy (beating only -- yuck -- Newark's in one recent 18-city survey)......

Via LAist, the reviews of the $578 million Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools campus are starting to come in, and the first from The Architects Newspaper is a bit ugly. The Associated Press has called the school the most expensive in history; in fairness, it's not really a "school." The......

Rep. Maxine Waters, the South L.A. Democratic congresswoman currently fighting House ethics charges, will be joined by other dignitaries and religious leaders, who will courageously come out against Quran burning this morning at the First AME Church on South Harvard Blvd. In case you missed it, a guy in Florida......

Just what California's ailing schools need....The ACLU filed a lawsuit in L.A Superior Court suing California for allowing school districts to charge for books and other educational supplies. The ACLU says these practices violate the clause of the California Constitution guaranteeing a free education. The ACLU said in a statement......

Update: See below, with proper credit to La Opinion. The Times reports that the Justice Department is investigating Bell over possible civil rights violations related to its policy of "profiling for impounds," a practice revealed by LA Weekly last month whereby police would troll the streets looking for cars that......

Damien Newton of LA Streetsblog has an interesting piece about a potential conflict between bike activists and neighborhood councils, though it may wind up in peace, love and harmony. Backstory: City Councilman Greig Smith, who represents district 12 in the Valley, has offered a motion forcing the L.A. Department of......

Twice in the past month, different snooty national magazines have judged us the second most stressful city in the nation. Forbes judged our stress level on high unemployment, long commute times, long working hours, and bad health, while Portfolio also looked at heart disease, bad air, crime and housing costs......