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L.A. has city and county governments. Why both?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLos Angeles City Hall. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP/Getty Images) As the cloud of scandal lingers over the Los Angeles City Council, some Angelenos may be...
'Paradise with a lobotomy' or 'just a big parking lot'? Pick your fave L.A. insult
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe freeways, the smog, the people, the culture, the intellect — nothing and no one is spared when...
10 ideas for fixing Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSome proposals to improve the dysfunctional city government: Abolish the City Council, elect a public advocate, appoint a homelessness czar, make it...
A tale of two new bridges in Los Angeles and San Francisco
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNothing reveals the character of a city more than the way it opens a present. California saw as much...
What Los Angeles and Belfast have in common
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTo govern a divided city, you need to balance your remembering with some forgetting. That’s what I learned while moderating a public event linking live audiences in two famously divided cities ...
Mutual contempt between public officials and public — with one-sided protection
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs he left office in December, L.A. City Councilmember Paul Koretz addressed Angelenos who disrupt...
Opinion: Think getting a raise from the boss is hard? Try asking for this
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWorkers rallied in downtown Los Angeles on March 22, 2021 to support unionizing Amazon warehouse...
Getting The Pasadena Peahen's Perspective
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBy a PASADENA PEAHEN, as told to JOE MATHEWS: Why don’t you just fly my pride and me to Martha’s Vineyard? Because we peafowl are tired of being...
Most unpredictable weather in U.S.? It is right here in sunshine-stoked California | Opinion
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 4 months agoCalifornia’s weather is harder to predict than it looks. Even Harris K. Telemacher came to learn...
Opinion: Love the Hollywood Burbank airport? Try living under its flight paths
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSeven years ago, a big swath of the San Fernando Valley became a dumping ground for jet fuel soot...
