Matthew Fleischer
I'm a veteran LA-based journalist and editor who has been a staff writer with the LA Weekly and senior editor of the LA City Beat. I'm currently a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine, editor for Fishbowl LA, and write for several other outlets both print and online. I've been honored by the Association for Alternative Newsweeklies and by the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) for my story "Navahoax." My story "Children of the Revolutionary" was honored by the The LA Press Club and First Amendment Funding Inc. I'm also a recipient of a Village Voice Media Fellowship. When I'm not writing I wander, usually by foot.
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With gas prices at all-time highs, express Metro rail service has the potential to bring in new riders. Will it happen anytime soon?
Despite high gas prices and a glut of available housing, the city of Santa Clarita just approved yet another massive commuter-driven mixed-use project.
A glimpse into the public transit life of the developing world in the Philippines.
Even the incompetent can learn to change tires at the Bicycle Kitchen.
Should bus service have to suffer to help LA launch an historic expansion of its rail network?
Longtime political kingpin George Perez has been ousted from his job as Cudahy's city manager. Is it the end of an era?
Metro is commissioning a $4.7 million study about improving mass transit to LAX. But is the whole plan a waste of money?
Matthew Fleischer harbors grand notions of manly DIY self-sufficiency. For now, he'll settle for marmalade.
In the San Gabriel Valley, a plan to build a new $210 sewage reclamation plant has quietly been torn to shreds.
Developers want to build a 60,000 person city on environmentally sensitive land on L.A.'s urban periphery. But will it take more subprime lending, of the ilk that recently crashed the U.S. economy, to make the project a success?
LA's much celebrated bicycle plan is officially the law of the land. But how do we turn plans to build 1680 miles of bike lanes into a reality? City councilman Bill Rosendahl explains.