July 2012 Archives
Where We Are:
In Cudahy, Compton, San Fernando, Santa Ana, Santa Fe Springs, Stanton, Vernon, and Westminster, city officials are giving local government a bad name.
Commentary:
Crenshaw is no Sunset Boulevard -- and yet they are connected.
LA as Subject:
Though Los Angeles lacks an city-defining span like San Francisco's Golden Gate, bridges nevertheless tame the Southern California landscape for freight trains, light rail vehicles, and millions of private automobiles.
Commentary:
The South Coast Air Quality Management District refuses to tell Coachella Valley officials what's happening with $53 million in grant funding.
Transportation:
It's a first for California cities, but others like San Francisco and Los Angeles are not far behind.
Where We Are:
Saturday night with Randolph Scott, a lone cricket, and some thoughts on the sounds of summer.
Commentary:
Our government is too big and too complex to make decisions on a piecemeal basis.
Where We Are:
Does urbanizing L.A. face the "Tragedy of the Commons" when users share a limited transportation resource?
Notes of a Native Daughter:
Fairmount Park in Riverside, CA was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, known for Central Park in New York City and others. His vision for this less-spoken about space continues today.
Commentary:
Narrative nonfiction is certainly personal, but it's also political, historical -- and racial. When I put all those things together in a lecture last month, minor hell broke loose.
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