Several states, including California, Maryland, and New York, have a new vision for public schools: as one-stop centers for medical and social services, not only for students but for their families as well. The transformed schools are called “community schools,”…
How could 6,000 shelter beds be unoccupied in Los Angeles County? It’s a number, reported in LAist in July, that makes no sense given the miles of homeless encampments that occupy area streets and sidewalks. Looking for an answer, I…
While local and national media outlets frequently report on food deserts, particularly in cities that lack sufficient grocery stores, there is one major shortage that goes largely unnoticed by the press: pharmacies. “Pharmacy deserts” pose a real threat, particularly for…
In recent weeks, the Los Angeles Dodgers made headlines by flip-flopping on whether or not to honor a group of anti-Catholic drag queens at their annual Pride Night. First pressured by Christians and then pressured by LGBTQ activists, the Dodgers…
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón suspended a deputy district attorney without pay for five days last month because prosecutor Shea Sanna was guilty of “misgendering” a sex offender. In Gascon World, the offense also can be called “dead-naming.”…
LOS ANGELES — In my religion, last Sunday night was like celebrating Mass with the pope at St. Peter’s Square. I was fortunate and delighted to join some 50,000 congregants of what I call the First Church of Song at…
One of the grossest elements of Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez’s appalling rant — captured anonymously on tape, then published by the Los Angeles Times — was her apparent disdain for Mexicans with an indigenous background. She used the Spanish…
Hollywood, the city that launched the golden age of the motion picture industry, has long epitomized both the realization and the death of dreams. Literature and popular culture have reflected Tinseltown’s cruel paradox that every success story is matched by…
It was hardly a surprise, after all he was 94, but the news of Vin Scully’s death Tuesday brings great sadness nonetheless. He was a great broadcaster and a great man who loved baseball, the Dodgers, his family, his country,…
