REFORMING THE FILIBUSTERER Hendrick Hertzberg at the New Yorker writes about the wild outside...
Economy
City Controller Audits What LA Has Done With the Stimulous $$
Thursday, City Controller Wendy Greuel released findings on her audit of how the City of Los...
The Education/Prison Disparity – 2010 Version
Okay, comparative cost time: The state of California spends 35 percent of its budget, or nearly $50...
FRIDAY: Gates RIP & Goldman-the-Vampire Squid
CONTROVERSIAL LAPD CHIEF DARYL GATES DIES He was the LAPD chief lots of us loved to hate, and was...
Congress, Financial Reform & The Inside Job
While Congress argues over financial reform, with the fights inevitably fracturing along partisan...
The Mayor’s $73 Million DWP Brinkmanship – UPDATED X2
UPDATE: 2 p.m. Wednesday. The city council has just approved a motion to wrest control of the...