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- Feuer, Zine lead in poll that shows a discontented L.A.
- Mayoral candidates hide behind their kids as they avoid hot school issues
- Winning the long fight to fund Bradley documentary
- Mayoral candidates miss the train
- Edelman and Hahn: Two of a kind yet different
- L.A. history made human
- Robin Boyarsky Smith: 1959-2013
- Condomania and the campaign
- And the mayor debate winner is...Professor Guerra
- Perry's winning night
- Homeless — missing from the campaign for mayor
- Mayoral candidates in South L.A
- New players in an old game
- Big bucks for Berman super PAC
- A new Berman attack
- Back to the past and secret deals
- Michael Berman: from the backroom to the spotlight
- Brad Sherman boasts of working with Paul Ryan
- Two levels of Berman-Sherman
- Enough money for transit jobs?
- Mayor celebrates big win
- Berman, Sherman plot for November
- Courts broke but owed $7.5 billion
- London and L.A., sister cities
- Behind the pro-Berman super PAC
- A new generation steps up
- Teamsters harbor victory may have broad impact
- Rosendahl and Occupy LA
- Al Martinez, bard of L.A.
- Race and city redistricting
- Hot times before big debate
- Parents win cutback reprieve
- Valley, Westside parents fight school cuts
- Beutner challenges weak city ethics regulation
- Zev blasts city hall
- Occupy LA and a new-style LAPD
- Occupy LA as a leadership school
- CGS closing: A blow to political reform *
- Catching the drama at city hall
- Waxman's take on Berman-Sherman
- Race and county redistricting
- Thoughts on Tim Rutten
- Lessons of an earlier AEG battle
- Carmageddon creates jobs
- Rosendahl shreds stadium secrecy--maybe
- Leiweke clinching stadium deal with a concession
- Ramirez Canyon: The fight goes on
- Mark Ridley-Thomas' telephone town hall
- A 36th CD candidates' night is a useful seminar
- Pat Brown's legacy: a fine documentary
- Call it MLB Stadium at Chavez Ravine
- L.A. public campaign finance law threatened
- A nasty surprise for teachers
- Hamilton high students' brilliant political organizing coup
- No smiles from the mayor
- A walk through Chinatown
- NFL stadium promoters have city hall wired
- Controller Chiang: show me the money.
- City borrowing for NFL stadium may cost taxpayers millions
- Brown: killing redevelopment gives schools $1 billion more a year.
- Brown's right on redevelopment boondoggle
- Trutanich: Another Riordan, happily out of place in city hall?
- Conrad obit: not the whole story
- Accuracy and disclosure: the issues in values-added dispute
- Times school story: insufficient evidence
- How metro will shape the new L.A.
- Villaraigosa's harbor clean air fight shifts to Washington
- Anschutz vs. Roski: NFL battle of billionaire buccaneers
- Here's something more important than the mayoral free tickets
- Mayor, take those tickets
- Harman, Winograd and Israel
- Politics in Mar Vista packs them in
- An eloquent plea for the libraries
- Library's hard times
- Backroom politics and the Expo line
- Low paid truckers bear cost of harbor pollution cleanup
- The electrical workers union's role in the DWP rate fight
- Hot times at the DWP: Baking journalists, snappish mayor
- The unfair Villaraigosa DWP rate increase
- Spending cuts at the grassroots
- A union view of MLK hospital
- Ramona Ripston: A place in L.A. history
- A city hall backstabbing
- A grim lunch with L.A. movers and shakers
- Ridley-Thomas and the future of MLK Jr. hospital
- Koretz fights the billboard lobby
- Humiliators are humiliated in 2nd district
- Doug Ring and good deeds
- A union gumshoe
- Another school question for the mayor
- Will the new Ambassador school campus honor RFK?
- The real villains of the Station fire
- An evening with Norman Corwin
- Cortines and Villaraigosa
- E-mails from readers: one irate, one intelligent
- Mayor, please explain this school reform thing
- Proposition B and the westside
- A mayor, a train car and jobs
- The solar March 3 ballot measure: good for L.A.
- One LA activists show their clout
- The L.A. election doesn't need newspapers and TV
- A journalist's memoir and the story of a failed paper
- Don't block Laura
- Recovery buck stops with the mayor
- Strong arm the Dodgers
- Innovation chief Abrams not too impressed with Times
- Obama-style politics for L.A.
- Some Annenberg faculty question proposed Dubai pact
- From foreclosures to sidecars: On the political road
- Affordable housing in the worst of times
- Villaraigosa tested on housing policy
- A frightening and intriguing mystery
- Good food and no lobbyists needed at LAX
- Great Times story tucked away on B-1
- Union clout, King hospital and the 2nd district
- ACORN and Mama Hill vs. predatory lenders
- The supes need an arguer
- USC, practical politics and King hospital
- Marching for decent pay and housing
- Death in LA
- A story and a memo from the Times
- Inside the VIP room
- Sam, the viagra man
- Neighborhood councils show some muscle
- Power battle at the ethics commission
- Cutbacks silence journalists
- The Times and the gang epidemic
- Ed Guthman: ethics role model
- The mayor and muslim mapping
- Latinos and the media
- Yaroslavsky against the developers: act 2
- Save the neighborhood councils from city hall
- A memorable defeat
- National health insurance and a failed hospital
- Paul Weeks, unsung hero
- Gag rule strikes again
- Sacramento may gut LA campaign reform
- Dumping Al
- The slippery slope
- Muddy days at city hall
- Alarcon turns the tables
- City hall: a waiting game
- Investigate the tainted Times
- Our foul airport
- Carol Tharp takes on the wild west
- A Times editorial: long, pompous and dumb
- Spare me from the lawyers
- My unfortunate clarity deficit
- Our L.A. communist state
- The supes need a baby sitter
- Return of the blue collar journalist
- Let 1,000 flowers bloom
- In need of fixing
- Two Tribunes and the Times
- Sentenced to ethics school
- An impossible mission
- Hollywood, the new guys and the Times' 125th
- Tennie Pierce, open meetings and secret settlements
- It's odd how things disappear into the City Hall abyss
- Attorney "No" Vs. Talk Radio
- Give public financing a chance
- Spare us from reformers
- What I really think about Prop. R
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