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 Founded in 1978 by former New York journalist and free spirit Jay Levin, the Weekly has long been the most highly regarded alternative weekly in the nation. Under editors Levin, Kit Rachlis, Sue Horton and Laurie Ochoa, the Weekly has been home both to first rate arts and cultural criticism, but in-depth political reporting and commentary on matters local, national and global. As executive editor from 1989 through 2001, Meyerson focused the paper on the transformation of Los Angeles – the decimation of manufacturing, the growth of a bipolar economy, and the rise of a labor-Latino alliance that’s been a model for progressive coalitions in other cities. The roster of Weekly writers past and present includes Manohla Dargis, John Powers, Steve Erickson, Michael Ventura, Ella Taylor, Jonathan Gold, Tom Carson, Ruben Martinez and Marc Cooper.
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L.A.'s Red
Wednesday, 09 August 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
WHEN THE POSITION OF CHAIRMAN of the Los Angeles Communist Party came open in the late 1940s, the two obvious candidates were Dorothy Healey, then the party's organizational secretary, and Ben Dobbs, the party's labor secretary. Both were smart and affable and had charisma to burn. They were also the best of friends, so - as Dorothy related the story in California Red, her quasi-autobiography cowritten with historian Maurice Isserman - they flipped a coin and it came up on the Dorothy-becomes-chairman side.
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The Greatest Good for the Smallest Number
Wednesday, 02 August 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
IF THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HAS a guiding principle, it must be that the government that governs least governs worst.
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Democratic Elites Rethink
Friday, 21 July 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
HERE IN WASHINGTON, Democrats are engaged in a frenzy of rethinking. Two new magazines have been unveiled this week (in one of which - full disclosure here - I wrote a piece on the nonexistence of Democratic policy toward offshoring in the age of globalization). Major conferences abound. Think tanks are adding staff. To be sure, much of the rethinking amounts to reaffirming support for old ideas that are still good and necessary (such as raising the minimum wage) or to stating a problem for which Democrats don't yet have a solution (such as offshoring in the age of globalization, for which, in fairness, no political tendency in the world has a solution). But even if all this activity amounts to no more than what Kant would have called a Prolegomenon To All Future Democratic Rethinking, it has, at least, reached fever pitch.
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Downwardly Mo
Wednesday, 19 July 2006 16:00
LA Weekly
LIKE ANY MAJOR METROPOLIS, Los Angeles has its normal sea of troubles, but there are two fundamental problems that really define the city and the challenges it confronts. The first, with which the Weekly has dealt extensively of late, is the quality of its air. The second, which may be even harder to fix, is the quality of its economy. Over the past quarter century, Los Angeles has been downwardly mobile, with its middle class shrinking to a fraction of its former size. Both these problems - air quality and, even more, the vanishing middle - afflict the nation generally. But Los Angeles has opened such a wide lead on every other city that we're not just quantitatively different; we're qualitatively in a class by ourselves.
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