Editorials

Women’s History Month Profile Meet LA Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton: A Champion for Civil Rights and Worker Advocacy

  By Melani Morose Edelstein, Columnist The indomitable spirit of San Pedro’s own civil rights activist Diane Middleton burns bright.…

2 years ago

A Long Way from Zero

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, fresh from her trip to Paris, France to check out the preparations for the 2024…

2 years ago

Back to the Future: Controversy Over California’s Clean Transportation Plan

Almost 80% of California’s $4 billion clean transportation program went to subsidizing combustion fuels, rather than zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure…

2 years ago

The Press Freedom Case of the Century

A 2011 Associated Press review of sources, whom the State Department claimed were most at risk from publication of the cables, uncovered…

2 years ago

Monopoly in Pharma: Big Private Profits from Publicly Granted Patents

The researchers patented insulin as US Patent No. 1469994 on Oct. 9, 1923 — and they quickly sold the patent…

2 years ago

Letters to the Editor

  The End of Crafted? I've been hearing alarming rumors about Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles.  I love…

2 years ago

Harbor Gateway – Light Coming into Full Focus

By Rick Thomas Last night, on Feb. 22, the Community Police Advisory Board (CPAB) held its monthly Board meeting in…

2 years ago

Super Tuesday Sets Frame For November

Here in LA, initial results—with roughly half the votes counted—show two public defenders running for county judge in close races…

2 years ago

Putin’s Puppets And America’s Circus Courts

To put things in a broader context, "Today is an excellent day to remind all of you Americans that the…

2 years ago

Trump is Unfit for Office

And now the six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court are going out of their way to give him the…

2 years ago