D. J. Waldie
About Me:
D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles." He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.
Subscribe To:
My KCET.org Activities
-
What happens in Glendale isn't staying in Glendale. In fact, it's happening in every L.A. County city.
-
1950s science fiction speculated on the answers, both tragic and majestic, but today only Newt Gingrich seems convinced.
-
Four billion in loans that cities hope to collect from defunct redevelopment agencies is only part of the trouble.
-
But wait! There's more: the high cost of crumbling sidewalks and the low cost of the Orange Line extension.
-
Efforts to make granstmanship more efficient miss the fundamental problem at L.A. City Hall.
-
No matter how you slice it, the map of new districts boundaries is a mess.
-
L.A. has a legacy of decentralized city government. It's also a holdover from an era when the city didn't have to be nimble. That time, at least, is long gone.
-
The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.
-
Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs are a bad idea for finding our way home.
-
With just 14 days to go, city officials have no clear idea of what will happen following the February 1 deadline that pulls the plug on California's 400 redevelopment agencies.
-
There is a middle way between big government and little cities. It began 58 years ago.
-
The Wicked Witch of redevelopment is dead, but we may regret it.
-
The talk about L.A. is caustic more often than not.
-
It isn't enough - not even much. Still, you can see the mountains again.
-
Can our ports co-exist with environmental justice for harbor-area residents?
-
Annual roundups have a common theme - it's always "the worst of times and the best of times." And that certainly is true of downtown at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012:...
-
Los Angeles was beautiful then (more beautiful than we realized or cared to consider).
-
At the year's ending, we all remember some "long time ago."
-
Too many of the dozen or so surveillance cameras on downtown streets are failing to deter crime.
-
Linguistic purity and pronunciation mash up on the streets of El-Lay.
-
May you and yours be as well protected this holiday season. And may we all have a better 2012.
-
More than $600,000 was spent by billboard lobbyists in 2011. It's a sign of the times. The humorist Ogden Nash famously rhymed I think I shall never see, / a billboard as lovely as a tree. / In fact...
-
It was spitting rain when I walked home, which put me in mind of Ireland.
-
Defeat of the socialist candidate for mayor brightened the season for the Los Angeles Times.
-
Posted Metro Ignores Bus Riders. Mayor Ignores Housing Authority. Council Members Ignore Reality.
in 1st and SpringApparently, a plague of institutional ignorance is sweeping though the city's troubled bureaucracies. Recent cases in point... -
For better or worse.
-
Lost, unwanted, or unclaimed out of fear, there are thousands whose burial is left to strangers.
-
Some want billboards and signs to commodify the city's skyline.
-
The Million Dollar Theater. Grand Central Market. Angels Flight. Coles. But no snow.
-
The harbor pilots of the Port of Los Angeles earn some of the city's highest wages. And shippers say that's too much.
Recent Actions from D. J. Waldie
No recommendations yet.
-
What happens in Glendale isn't staying in Glendale. In fact, it's happening in every L.A. County city.
-
1950s science fiction speculated on the answers, both tragic and majestic, but today only Newt Gingrich seems convinced.
-
Four billion in loans that cities hope to collect from defunct redevelopment agencies is only part of the trouble.
-
But wait! There's more: the high cost of crumbling sidewalks and the low cost of the Orange Line extension.
-
Efforts to make granstmanship more efficient miss the fundamental problem at L.A. City Hall.
-
No matter how you slice it, the map of new districts boundaries is a mess.
-
L.A. has a legacy of decentralized city government. It's also a holdover from an era when the city didn't have to be nimble. That time, at least, is long gone.
-
The regional connector is a big deal, but Metro's rail network has all the limitations of the history it's recreating.
-
Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs are a bad idea for finding our way home.
-
With just 14 days to go, city officials have no clear idea of what will happen following the February 1 deadline that pulls the plug on California's 400 redevelopment agencies.
