Mars Melnicoff

Yolie Flores, lifelong voice for families and students, recently decided not to return to her chair on the Los Angeles Unified School District Board. Her disheartening enlightenment about the state of the district is chronicled in this week's L.A. Weekly print story 'The Education of Yolie Flores' by Jason S......

Update: See Bottom. 25 minutes ago, Larry Eisenberg, executive director of Facilities Planning and Development for the Los Angeles Community College District -- the man who oversees the fraud-ridden $5.7 billion construction bond program at Los Angeles Community College District, was let go. Terminated effective March 12. Chancellor Dr. Daniel......

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announces two settlements -- for a total of over $3 million -- with companies believed to be responsible for "industrial" chemicals in the soil and groundwater in areas including parts of Glendale, North Hollywood and Burbank. Not to worry though, this is actually a good......

By Simone Wilson Update: LaBonge squeaked out a win with 55.09 percent; O'Grady came through with 30.93 and Box with 13.98. A total of 16,257 voters participated in the District 4 election. Update: The vote for O'Grady has risen to 29.37 percent, making him the golden underdog of this City......

Update #2: Reformer pulls into second and talks with L.A. Weekly! see Seat 5 below. Update: Numbers are rolling in: looking like more of the same, see below. Absentee votes can't always predict the election, but they tend to be very telling. And they are in: An L.A. Times investigation......

Update #2: Kayser talks to L.A. Weekly. See below. Update: Numbers are continuing in the same direction as more votes are counted. See Below. Absentee votes are counted for the Los Angeles Unified School District Board race. We will continue to keep you updated as numbers come in, but here......

Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees members have been thrust into the spotlight in the past week by an L.A. Times 6-part investigative series exposing waste, fraud and general misuse of tens of millions of dollars in voter approved construction bonds that total $5.7 billion. Yesterday, in light......

Surgeons at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center performed a 14-and-a-half hour hand transplant this weekend.The hand traveled from San Diego to become the first ever hand transplant in the western U.S. The Futurama-esque procedure has decidedly unique considerations: The hand couldn't have a criminal record. "We do an extensive criminal......

With Yolie Flores deciding not to return to this post, the hot seat in the L.A. Unified School District Board elections tomorrow will be District 5, the only open seat with no incumbents running. Atwater, Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Highland Park, El Sereno, City Terrace, Bell, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Maywood,......