By now, the scenario is tragically, infuriatingly familiar; a young man with a history of mental illness unleashes a burst of bullets from a high-capacity…
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All of us—gay or straight, male or female, young or old—achieved an important victory at the U.S. Supreme Court this week, one that speaks to…
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Supervisor Yaroslavsky delivered commencement remarks at the USC Annenberg School for Communication on May 17. We thought we’d share them with you here: I am…
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No one who knew Dr. Antronette K. Yancey—public health expert, UCLA professor, athlete, author, poet and general force of nature—will be surprised to hear that…
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Universal City is one of L.A.’s most famous destinations. It is also a member of a famously complex community. Part movie studio, part theme park,…
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During my many years in public life, there’ve been just a handful of times when I’ve been caught off guard. This week, as the U.S….
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Maps and blueprints are fine, but there’s nothing like getting out into the real world and seeing the future take shape. A few days ago,…
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“I’d like to talk to Stan Musial.” I was a baseball-crazed 11-year-old when I made that pronouncement to the telephone operator at the old Hotel…
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The obituaries told us that he’d been a fixture on local television since the early 1980s, but I could have sworn that Huell Howser had…
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