The rains that have fallen in the past couple weeks have given Los Angeles a reprieve from the severe drought of the past three years. In a search for long-term solutions, last week Congresswoman Grace Napolitano (38th district) convened a hearing of the House Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee...

In his Nov. 24 Op-Ed article, " Depression-era projects, again," Bill Boyarsky outlines some good reasons for Los Angeles residents to support President-elect Barack Obama's plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects. We need the employment, and our city needs rebuilding. It's true that the...

The largest living memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King is still alive and going strong in Los Angeles. Eighteen years ago a multi-racial cadre of hundreds of volunteers joined together and in a single day to plant 400 Canary Island Pines along seven miles of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd....

'Tis the season to be conflicted. We love our Christmas trees and we love nature. But what about the decision of buying an artificial tree (considered sacrilege by some) versus the tradition that requires killing a tree? And once Christmastime is over, for most people it means that our "natural"...

Think of Los Angeles and what comes to mind? Smog? Gridlock? Massive urban sprawl? Perhaps no longer. Some hard working Angelenos have said enough, and they are putting their backs -- as well as their words -- into the effort to recover the City of Angels. If Southern California with...