Alongside just one endorsement this year, we've placed an = - indicating our choice is the lesser of two evils or just one of life's gloomier compromises. GOVERNOR - Dan HamburgFor the past 16 years, California has had only Republican governors - George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson, to get......

Enrique Soberanes knows one particular spot on the floor of the principal's office at Eastman Avenue Elementary School very well. It's a tile circle covering a metal utility plate held in place by four brass screws. He knows the spot because, as an Eastman student during the early '70s, he......

In fact, it hasn’t fared well — at least not as far as one can determine given the lack of comprehensive data. Critics like to point out that only about 6.5 percent of California’s limited-English students were redesignated as fluent in English last year. In L.A. Unified, the number is......

For nearly a decade, Los Angeles County’s major annual ritual was the week of daylong sessions that comprised the Hall of Administration budget hearings. We all had to plan our lives around them. And then this year, the unimaginable happened: This year, the hearings somehow slipped past almost unnoticed. It......

When Saint John’s Health Center came up with its plans for a $270 million renovation and expansion of its facility, the hospital’s president, Sister Marie Madeleine Shonka, thought the project would be a shoo-in for approval in Santa Monica. A nonprofit health-care facility, Saint John’s is the largest private employer......

He came to clear the air, but when it was over Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas had confirmed rather than allayed growing suspicions that he wanted to sink Magic Johnson’s multimillion-dollar redevelopment project in the Santa Barbara Plaza. The bad blood stemmed, as Ridley-Thomas implied that night, from developer Johnson’s avowed interest......