Drumming Up Clients for Yard Sale Hotline By Marc Ballon, Marc Ballon covers small business and entrepreneurial issues for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-7439 and at marc.ballon@latimes.com
What's in a Name? Plenty for Chamber By Marc Ballon, Marc Ballon covers small business and entrepreneurial issues for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-7439 and at marc.ballon@latimes.com
They're No Longer Angels: CEO Emeritus Club Folds By Marc Ballon, Marc Ballon covers small business and entrepreneurial issues for The Times. He can be reached at (714) 966-7439 and at marc.ballon@latimes.com
Charter Fight Reveals City Council's Power By Xandra Kayden, Xandra Kayden, who teaches at UCLA's School of Public Policy and Social Research, is writing a book on the political structure of Los Angeles
Who's Got the Courage? Aid Workers By Anna Husarska, Anna Husarska is a fellow at the Media Studies Center in New York. She was a political analyst in Bosnia and Kosovo from 1996 to 1998
Market Reforms Breed Discontent By Joshua Muldavin, Joshua Muldavin is a professor of geography and chairman of UCLA's Department of International Development Studies. He has worked and lived in China half-time over the past 17 years, and marched in Beijing during the spring of 1989. E-mail: muldavin@ucla.edu