Tuesday saw a sharp escalation in the 5-year fight between developers seeking to build the largest mixed-use development in Los Angeles history, and the environmentalists seeking to block it. Eleven days after Los Angeles federal District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew ordered a halt to construction, executives at Playa Capital Co......

Los Angeles gay and lesbian political activists are struggling to replace the LIFE Lobby, a 12-year-old organization dedicated to gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender and HIV/AIDS issues, which formally dissolved last week due to mounting debt. With a staff of four operating out of offices in Sacramento, the LIFE Lobby was the only organization......

"I’m taking on the last bastion of unbridled power in America: the press. So I knew I’d get criticized by them." Indeed, Steven Brill has been getting hammered in the weeks since he launched his new media-watch magazine, Brill’s Content. Brill, the media-savvy founder of American Lawyer magazine and Court......

To most observers, the decision by the Beach Cities Health District to turn over the lease on a section of its medical building in Redondo Beach to the Little Company of Mary health system meant little more than a change in names. To women’s-health advocates, however, the deal that was......

INGLEWOOD DEAR EDITOR: Marilyn Martinez’s article on Superintendent McKinley Nash ["Big Stick on Campus," June 19–25] is one-sided, full of inaccuracies, and reflects flawed investigation by your reporter. Nearly all the quotes are from employees who have sued the district and obviously want to put their "spin" on the facts......