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HELP WANTED: A New CD 15 Council Rep Do you know who’s running to replace Joe Buscaino?

The traditional logic of winning the 15th District is that the weight of the voters are here in the San…

3 years ago

30 Years Later The unsettled business of the 1992 Rodney King uprising

In the wake of the Watts Rebellion, city leaders thought utilizing more militarized training would make the city safer. Chief…

3 years ago

The Color Of Water

African Americans arriving from Arkansas settled in Lanare, for instance, because they could not rent or buy homes in Riverdale,…

4 years ago

Wrong Again Joe

You can always count on Buscaino to take advantage of somebody else’s misery You may recall how Councilman Joe Buscaino…

4 years ago

Honoring Dolores Huerta’s Legacy

It was a profound experience to watch her in union contract negotiations-this diminutive woman facing off against the beefy growers…

4 years ago

The Unhidden Truth

All who were raised in San Pedro love the town and recognize it as a wonderful place to grow up.…

4 years ago

LA Mayor’s Race― What’s In Caruso’s CAN?

Long before Rick Caruso started dumping a million dollars a week into his campaign to run for mayor of Los…

4 years ago

TROUBLE IN THE TULIPS Organized Farmworkers Win Basic Demands in a Quick Strike

Once harvesting starts, so do other problems. When a worker cuts a daffodil, for instance, she or he has to…

4 years ago

Songs of Past and Present, Near and Far Chanteuse Jessica Fichot Evokes Paris and Old Shanghai at Collage

I hear in it a more intimate version of Cirque du Soleil’s world music mélange, more scaled down, to be…

4 years ago

Jackson Confirmation Hearing Proves GOP Has No Interest in Making America a Better Place

There’s a reason the GOP refuses to publish a party platform or legislative agenda: they don’t have one, beyond doing…

4 years ago