Robert Greene

Okay, now you try it. You pull on the cable like this, you take your wire clippers in your right hand, and you... no, not that cable! Zap. Yikes. Gosh, it’s dark in here. Los Angeles’ power outage on Monday plunged about 2 million people into — well, no, not......

When a major earthquake or other disaster strikes Los Angeles, Horace Penman will be ready, and that’s good news for his neighbors in the area between the Harbor Freeway and Central Avenue, 84th Street and Slauson Avenue. Those are the boundaries of the neighborhood council known as the Community and......

For the second straight week, the Los Angeles Police Commission this week moved out of the tiny conference room where the five-member panel usually conducts its meetings and into the larger Parker Center auditorium to accommodate more than 100 angry clerics, activists and residents who wanted to give the commissioners......

Photo by Ted SoquiIt was one of those seemingly endless Los Angeles school-board meetings, even more contentious than usual because the elected officials were bickering over whether to put a huge construction bond on the November 8 ballot. A representative of the PTA came to the microphone to say the......

The election to replace Martin Ludlow as city councilman took place last week and, well, sorry, voters of the 10th district, but you weren’t invited. If you want to feel like you still count, you can drop by the voting booth on November 8 and mark your ballot. In fact,......

City Commissioners who last month balked at rubber-stamping a hefty and somewhat mysterious salary boost for 8,000 Department of Water and Power workers decided on Tuesday to rubber-stamp it after all — after a city lawyer and the general manager of the DWP told them that rubber-stamping was just about......

Eric Garcetti was one of three members of the Los Angeles City Council who won re-election in March with no opposition, in part because he and other incumbents used their name recognition to amass war chests big enough to scare away any would-be challengers early on. The twist in Garcetti’s......

A man named Sam Yorty once became mayor of Los Angeles by standing on the steps of City Hall and dumping a load of garbage to illustrate how inconvenient it was for the average housewife to recycle. That led to three decades of stuffing our landfills with recyclable glass, metal,......

Former State Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson got on fairly well with the current governor, so he seemed to want to make it clear to representatives of several Service Employees International Union (SEIU) locals Saturday just whose side he was on. Wesson told them the race to fill the empty 10th......

Midway through Antonio Villaraigosa’s first summer as mayor of Los Angeles, there are so far only two things that can be said for certain about the new regime: Villaraigosa has been busy, and Los Angeles has gotten bigger. The busy part almost goes without saying, as Villaraigosa has been photographed......