Jeffrey Anderson

After the defeat of Proposition 75, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s failed attempt to limit public unions’ ability to engage in political activity, Ron Senger decided to ask about how his union dues were being spent.Senger, a streetlighting engineer with the Department of Public Works and a member of the Engineers and......

A mysterious investigation of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s practice of hiring outside law firms to handle city business is being conducted by Diligence Inc., a private intelligence agency run by former CIA and British security agents, according to documents obtained by the Weekly.The unusual probe comes as Delgadillo awaits a......

A demonstration at the airport on Sunday by 90 of the 9,000 members of the Engineers and Architects Association (EAA) was a reminder that the city’s salary structure is out of whack — and that someday, the mayor and the City Council must deal with pay disparities between thousands of......

L.A. Department of Water and Power Commissioner Nick Patsaouras has a nickname for Ch2M Hill, the internationally known megacontractor that has designed and managed a $415 million dust-reduction project at Owens Lake. He calls the firm, which also has contracts at the airport, the port and the Board of Public......

Photo AP / World WideWhen Patty Ostrander saw the case against an alleged sex offender who had pursued a relationship with her son fall off the court’s calendar, she was angry. When no one from the City Attorney’s Office contacted her to revive the case, in which she was prepared......

So you’re a USC football star and you’ve been arrested. Who do you call?A well-connected veteran attorney would be nice, preferably a former prosecutor.A former Trojan, one who has guided your teammates safely through criminal matters, would be even better.How about an ex-Trojan, ex-prosecutor on USC’s speed dial who just......

Photo by Robert YagerA week after the City Council voted to take over a $103 million construction contract on the beleaguered Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Project, the Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners hauled managers in for questioning and called for an outside audit of the project’s prime......

Jan Perry's most recent unsuccessful attempt to take down Peter Torres is rooted in the LAPD senior lead officer’s forays into politics. But the tension between the two was exacerbated by Torres’ stand during the spring election against the dumping of homeless people. That, and Torres’ attempts to police the......

Photo by Ted SoquiCouncilwoman Jan Perry's charges of police misconduct against Peter Torres, her opponent in last spring’s election, have been shot down by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Internal Affairs Group, according to documents obtained by the Weekly. Torres, a senior lead officer formerly of Newton Division, now at......

Photo by Robert YagerAbout a three-hour drive north of Los Angeles in the high desert, stretched out like a crooked finger between the Sierra, White-Inyo and Coso mountains, lies the storied Owens Valley. Visibility is often obscured by what is known as “Keeler fog,” a toxic mixture of alkaline dust......