Los Angeles Isn't Fighting Poverty—It's Criminalizing It
Vendors at parks and beaches targeted with new ordinance.
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Truvada Takes Hold as an Urban HIV Prevention Tool
Big city health departments working on making it more available to those at risk.
Los Angeles Pulls Trigger on Massive Minimum Wage Hike; Doesn't Know Who Will Actually Have to Pay It
Demands $15 per hour by 2020.
L.A.'s Minimum Wage Hike: A Teaching Moment for Those Trying to Help the Underprivileged
It's harder to do good for someone if doing good costs a lot more. And employing someone is often doing good for them.
Who Should Pay to Fix Cracked L.A. Sidewalks? You!
City official suggests pushing cost of city mismanagement on property owners.
VID: Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
Minimum Wage Hikes and Restaurants: Who Gains? Who Loses?
Los Angeles and Seattle institute or contemplate big minimum wage hikes, and the furor over how restaurants will be affected continues.
Sports Stadiums Are Bad Public Investments. So Why Are Cities Still Paying for Them?
Joel Kotkin dispels some of the popular myths of stadium projects.
Fatal Police Shooting of Homeless Man in Downtown LA Caught on Tape
Posted to Facebook, where the police commission president saw it. An officer is heard yelling drop the gun but it's unclear if the man had one.
Inglewood's NFL Stadium Proposal Better Than Most, But Still Pretty Crony
Multibillion-dollar sports franchises don't need any additional tax breaks.
America's Least Sprawling City Is…Los Angeles?
Forget the clichés. L.A. isn't the capital of sprawl.
L.A. School Superintendent Resigns
Clashed with teachers, had big scandal over iPads for students
Are California Lawmakers Trying to Chase Out Porn Industry Entirely?
Given how a similar condom requirement worked in L.A. it seems California Assembly members want to drive the adult film industry out of state.
Los Angeles Is Killing Itself
The romantic, popular conception of the city bears increasingly little resemblance to Los Angeles today.
How L.A. Plans to Trash Dozens of Local Businesses
The city is glossing over crony capitalism and union patronage with nods to environmentalism.
LA Schools Realize Giving Every Kid an iPad Was a Costly Disaster, Will Give Every Kid a Laptop Instead
The entire thing was an unmitigated disaster-a clear example of real life trumping the good intentions of bureaucrats.
