Otis Chandler

Goodreads Receives $2 Million, Plans Major Improvements

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 12.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Goodreads, Otis Chandler, Shelfari, Social Networking, Books, Start-Ups, Funding, Librarything, Book Clubs, True Ventures, Reading, Ebooks, Books News

Last week the books-and-social-networking site Goodreads announced it had received $2 million in venture capital, led by start-up-friendly True Ventur...

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Remembering Jack Nelson

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Selma, Otis Chandler, Chandler Family, Jack Nelson, Los Angeles, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, Media News
Murray Fromson

On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.

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Farewell to a Washington Fixture

Murray Fromson | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: Washington DC, Otis Chandler, Los Angeles Times, Watergate, Chicago Tribune, Timothy McVeigh, Sam Zell, Doyle McManus, Media News
Murray Fromson

I was hoping more would have been written, marking the demise of the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau last week It certainly deserved more than a few lines of copy.

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Street Racing Kills -- Help Me Stop It

Steve Parker | Posted 07.29.2008 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Green Beret, San Diego, Nitrous Oxide, Bloods, Santa Monica, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Rodney King, Lapd, Otis Chandler, Mayor Tom Bradley, Phoenix, Long Beach Grand Prix, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Hulk Hogan, LA County Sheriff, Nbc, Maryland, National Hot Rod Association, Christmas Trees, Illegal Street Racing, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Crenshaw Boulevard, Orange County, Environment, Big Willie Robinson, Vietnam, Crips, Brotherhood Raceway, Mustang, Ventura, Whipnotic, Nhra, Living News
Steve Parker

San Diego counts so many bodies and seriously injured people from street racing they say it is at "epidemic" levels and is a public health problem.

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