The LA Times has run two stories recently about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s political future. Today’s story quotes a professor from my wife’s alma mater:
“His political capital is a lot like the California housing market. It has taken a hit lately,” said Jack Pitney, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. “Politically he still has […]

Former Clinton administration official Kurt Campbell guest blogs on the New York Times about the difference in approach between George W. Bush and both of his predecessors:
Indeed, the 1990’s involved enormous and important good works internationally and helped set the scene for continued American power on the global stage. Increasingly, the first Bush Administration and […]

The Pew Hispanic Center has shown that naturalized Latinos are more likely to register and to vote than U.S.-born Latinos. Julia Preston of the New York Times reports that recent data suggests that there will be more newly naturalized Latino voters than ever before:
Immigration authorities are swamped in new bureaucratic backlogs resulting from an unanticipated […]

Evan George of the Downtown News reports on the latest from the Los Angeles High School for the Visual and Performing Arts being built at one end of Grand Ave.:
Finding the 230,000-square-foot facility will not be a problem for tourists or students thanks to the school’s tower - a 140-foot beacon that looms above the […]