Author: Charles Crumpley

What, Me Divide?

Divide California into six states? Now there’s a dumb idea. I mean, it took a lot of time and effort to make California the biggest,

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Water Fears All Wet

You may have seen the article last week about how Sacramento now has water cops who patrol neighborhoods issuing tickets to wastrels who are caught

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Up For The Count

Among the most-cited statistics by L.A. business leaders is this: We have fewer jobs right now in Los Angeles County than we did in 1990,

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To Watch or Not to Watch

I hope DirecTV and Charter and all the other non-Time Warner pay-TV carriers don’t buckle. They should hold out. They should not be bludgeoned into

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Wage Creep

Regardless of where you stand on the living-wage issue in Los Angeles, you’ve got to admit this: Living-wage proponents have a terrific strategy. The eventual

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Spaced Out in the Open

Walk into one of the startup tech companies in L.A.’s Silicon Beach and you’re likely to see young workers lined up along folding tables where

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California Can No Longer Coast

Poor Gov. Jerry Brown. He apparently still thinks it’s the 1970s. He’s been saying lately that California’s progressive legislation – environmentalism, greater rights for immigrants,

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