AltWeeklies Wire
The Great Hollywood Peace Paradenew
Antiwar Angelenos mark the fifth year of war by throwing a party.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
03-21-2008 |
War
SoCal's Ports of Harmnew
With the death toll in the thousands every year, what will it take for L.A. and Long Beach to clean up their act?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt and Emma Gallegos |
03-07-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Is Ricky Really a Sex Offender?new
California's registry for life may soon include promiscuous kids.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Hanna Ingber Win |
02-22-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Derailing L.A.new
Damien Goodmon wants to halt the L.A.'s light rail project in its current form and place the line underground. Along the way, he's aligned himself with remnants of some of the same ugly forces that have impeded mass transit since racism and fear stopped the Red Line subway in the 1980s.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz and Alan Mittelstaedt |
02-15-2008 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
A Fixed Handnew
With billions at stake, the fight over Indian Gaming has turned into the most expensive in proposition history.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Annette Stark |
02-01-2008 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Wal-Mart vs. the Poornew
Blame Howard Jarvis and his Prop. 13 for big-box projects beating low-income housing.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
01-25-2008 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Inside the Anti-Tax Psychosisnew
Thirty years later, Prop. 13 remains politically untouchable.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
01-25-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Ballyhoo in Balinew
The EPA's global failure on greenhouse gas emissions means dirtier cars -- for now.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
William J. Kelly |
01-18-2008 |
Environment
L.A.'s Transit Crisisnew
How hard should it be for politicians to ask Angelenos to pay for a world-class transportation system?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
01-18-2008 |
Transportation
L.A.'s Smog Propagandistnew
Too bad for our health that Joe Coto gets less press than Bill Burke.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
01-11-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
Mr. Walker's Bad Day at the Welfare Officenew
He, like 60,000 other down-and-outers, get little relief from L.A. county supervisors.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Matthew Mundy |
01-11-2008 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
A Green Report Card for L.A.'s Mayornew
Environmentalists are holding Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to his campaign promise to turn Los Angeles into the cleanest, greenest big city. His goals deserve high marks, but his execution is, well, closer to average, mostly because of delays and roadblocks imposed by industry.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Abigail Palmer |
01-04-2008 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Lakota Sioux Start Their Own Countrynew
The Lakotah Freedom Delegation declared the new nation of Lakotah out of treaty land in five U.S. states last month.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
01-04-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The End of Privacynew
A USC research lab charts a new frontier into hi-tech surveillance and a very scary place.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Nick Street |
01-04-2008 |
Civil Liberties
Tags: civil liberties
Mexican Court's Atrocities are a Warning for U.S. Justicenew
Anyone wondering what a truly rotten Supreme Court looks like could do worse than glance south of the border to Mexico, where the 10 most powerful justices in the land have just issued a travesty of a ruling in the case of a crusading journalist called Lydia Cacho.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
12-14-2007 |
International
Tags: international
