John Seeley

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov The University of Southern California granted B.A.s Friday to more that 7,500 students who had struggled through four years of course work. But the school’s administration was granting nothing to the 350 food-service and dormitory employees who have been struggling for job security since the class......

Photo by Anne Fishbein LAX wheelchair attendant Norma Torres gave a simple answer when asked why she joined 40-odd security screeners, baggage handlers and wheelchair aides in walking off their jobs last Thursday: "Because I need health benefits." Torres, who gets $5.75 an hour after two years’ employment, explained, "I’m......

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter Over the past 20 years Pasadena has evolved from a blue-blood Republican stronghold into a multiethnic Democratic quilt. But the Southland’s "second city" could yet emerge with a Republican as its first elected mayor, since the liberal coalition of Anglo environmentalists and minority voters is......

A dozen years ago, conservative activists, outraged at the liberal, permissive rulings of a California Supreme Court shaped by Governor Jerry Brown, mounted a massive campaign to oust several justices - while many liberals sat on their hands. After a well-funded campaign focused on their death-penalty reversals, Chief Justice Rose......

I. Just Plain Gray This isn't the way Hollywood would have written it. Our largest, most cutting-edge state gears up to pick a leader for a new millennium; the people face a momentous choice. On one side, representing continuity, is, as you might expect, a middle-aged, upper-middle-class white male who......