Topic Archive: Infrastructure
Steve Lopez visits in today's column with Dorothy Green, the longtime water activist and founder of Heal the Bay who is in hospice care for...
Posted September 17, 2008 09:40 AM
Every bed at the new Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center will be filled from the day it opens this fall, according to an independent report...
Posted July 14, 2008 11:36 AM
Stories planted this morning in the Times, Daily News and Wall Street Journal unveil Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's billion-dollar agenda to re-invent Los Angeles' relationship to...
Posted May 15, 2008 08:58 AM
Louis Sahagun reports for the Times that "thousands of dockworkers at all 29 West Coast ports, including Los Angeles and Long Beach, took the day...
Posted May 1, 2008 11:40 AM
As a reporter, I liked to write about L.A's infrastructure — freeways, water, refuse. I always thought there was a book in the history of...
Posted March 26, 2008 12:58 PM
Examining a plan to inject the city's daily mountain of sludge into the ground under Terminal Island, CityWatch's Marc Haefele revisits past schemes to dispose...
Posted January 5, 2007 11:52 AM
Dockweiler State Beach and the northern half of Manhattan Beach — from Ballona Creek south to the Manhattan Beach Pier — will be posted with...
Posted November 27, 2006 11:36 AM
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Here’s a way city hall can strong arm the Dodgers into paying at least part of the cost of providing public transportation to the stadium during baseball season.
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