Patrick Range McDonald

With a camera and a web site, D.J. Prator fought the law and won -- and saved downtown drivers hundreds of dollars each in the process. Last night, SoCal Connected's Laurel Erickson reported how Prator got a "no right turn" sign at the intersection of 7th Street and Broadway in......

Los Angeles Unified School District will finally become a target of a Parent Trigger, a California law that allows parents to take over a failing school in which their children attend, according to L.A. School Report. Parents at 24th Street Elementary School, with the help of Los Angeles-based education reform......

Actor Edward Furlong, who long ago played Arnold Schwarzenegger's side kick in Terminator 2, was arrested in West Hollywood early Sunday morning and charged with a misdemeanor count of battery, City News Service reports. Furlong was arrested on November 21 for a similar domestic violence case involving the same woman......

The Los Angeles Times ran a piece about West Hollywood terms limits today. It's filled with the usual, and very simplified, arguments by City Council members John Heilman and Jeff Prang about why terms limits are bad. "The people in West Hollywood are smart enough to know that if there's......

Read "Grand Avenue Drenched in Misdirection" by Tibby Rothman. It's been promised for years, but developer Related California finally broke ground for the first private component of the multi-billion-dollar Grand Avenue Project in downtown Los Angeles, with mayoral candidate and City Councilwoman Jan Perry attending the kick-off ceremony. Perry has......

With new findings coming out of the California Department of Education, the state is clearly failing to provide good instruction to special education students. The Cabinet Report revealed yesterday that special education students in California rank near the bottom in reading and math proficiency compared to other states. California also......

It's official. For the first time ever in the United States, a California school district has approved a Parent Trigger, which allows parents to make changes to a failing school. The landmark decision by the Adelanto School District to allow Desert Trails Elementary School in the Mojave Desert to convert......

WeHo News reported yesterday that Irv's Burgers, the iconic hamburger stand on Santa Monica Boulevard across the street from West Hollywood City Hall, is under threat of redevelopment changes that could possibly force out longtime owners Sonia, Momma, and Sean Hong. Irv's Burgers owner Sonia Hong says her landlord is......