The $20 million in Veterans’ Administration funds to convert a single, unused building at its West Los Angeles campus into housing for chronically homeless veterans shouldn’t be a big deal.
The Lakers’ Ron Artest is not someone who has a good reputation. He’s caused problems on some of the teams he’s played for, he spent 10 days in jail because of a domestic abuse charge, and he’s best known for being part of a brawl in which he punched a fan at a game.
During the past year, General Motors went bankrupt, Chrysler found itself owned by Italy’s Fiat and yet Ford seems to be hitting home runs, knocking them out of the park with regularity.
Q: What steps should I take in case my child is lost at the beach or Santa Monica Pier? A: Before leaving home to go anywhere with your child, here are some steps you could take to help in the unfortunate event he/she becomes lost: • Know the physical description of your child, age, height, weight,
The Gulf oil spill has laid bare a series of shortcomings in the government’s ability both to prevent and to respond to such a crisis, and the result is spiraling public frustration.
Summer is usually a slow news season. Not this summer. Every day, thousands of barrels of oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico, with August or September as a likely end to this ecological nightmare.
Bill Bauer’s recent columns bring to mind the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s observation that we are all entitled to our own opinions but not our own facts.
Quick: name a soccer player. Oh, and don’t say Pelé, David Beckham, Brandi Chastain or your fifth grader on the travel team. It’s not as if they don’t count, of course.
Nestled at the foot of the George Washington Bridge, way past all the trendy restaurants and the streets of neatly gentrified brownstones, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is the neighborhood called Washington Heights.
There is a condition afflicting Republicans all over the country called Obama Derangement Syndrome or ODS. Symptoms include an inability to take our president at his word, a certainty that everything he does has an ulterior (read: socialist/statist/un-American) motive, and a belief that he was raise
My brothers Zane and Richard have debated with me on almost a daily basis since we were old enough to talk. So when I heard Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman didn’t cast a vote in 28 years I knew that Zane and I would dissect the subject from every angle.
I’ve spent the past two harrowing months covering the oil spill in the Gulf, America’s worst ecological disaster. Children and adults across our nation and the Western Hemisphere want to know what can be done to address an antiquated and toxic energy source? Humans are remarkable problem solvers.
