Institute Of Public Affairs

Six Southern California campuses of the California State University system will join forces to provide expertise and other assistance to agencies, community groups, businesses and others in the post-riot rebuilding process. The campuses will form a coalition to be administered through the Edmund G. (Pat) Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles. The other campuses involved are Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, San Bernardino and Pomona.

Six Southern California campuses of the California State University system will join forces to provide expertise and other assistance to agencies, community groups, businesses and others in the post-riot rebuilding process. The campuses will form a coalition to be administered through the Edmund G. (Pat) Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles. The other campuses involved are Dominguez Hills, Fullerton, Long Beach, Northridge, San Bernardino and Pomona.

Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcon and his wife will face trial on 23 felony counts of perjury and voter fraud after a judge Tuesday found "more than substantial" evidence that the couple lied about where they were living so he could run for office. Superior Court Judge M.L. Villar de Longoria, citing "compelling and quite telling" photographs of the Alarcons' home at 14451 Nordhoff St. in Panorama City, found that the residence was not livable and didn't show major repairs "that were reportedly done over an extensive period of time.

Since Lee Baca became Los Angeles County sheriff 15 years ago, defeating an incumbent who died days before the vote, he has never faced a serious challenge for reelection to one of California's top law enforcement jobs. But after a series of scandals and federal investigations targeting the department, that might be changing. Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell said Monday that he was considering a run against Baca next year. McDonnell's public exploration suggests potential political vulnerabilities amid nearly two years of bad headlines, experts said.

Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is preaching a gospel of civic rebirth in appearances across Los Angeles while gently lowering expectations about how much City Hall, and he himself, can do to bring about change. In a city of 4 million, "I can't be everywhere, I won't be everywhere and do a good job," Garcetti told a crowd of about 250 at Cal State Northridge on Wednesday, one in a series of "Back to Basics" forums in the weeks before he replaces outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on July 1. FOR THE RECORD: An earlier version of this article said that Pat Pope voted for Wendy Greuel.

Former Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, who formed a private, nonprofit government affairs institute eight years ago to study issues ranging from water resources to mass transportation in California, announced Monday that he is merging the organization with Cal State Los Angeles to ensure continued funding and operating resources. As part of the agreement, Brown's Institute of Government Affairs and the university's Center for Public Resources are being dissolved to form the Edmund G.

John Albert Vieg, professor emeritus at Pomona College and a state constitutional scholar, died Friday at his Claremont home. Vieg was 83 and had retired in 1970 but continued to teach some government courses at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He had come to this area in 1945 and in 1946 was named chairman of Pomona College's government department. By 1949 he had become the first director of the college's Institute of Public Affairs.

For more than half of my 38 years in the news business, I've been a member of a union, though I'm not currently. And my late father was a proud Teamster for decades. So I appreciate the goods that unions deliver to nearly 15 million members in the United States: living wages and good benefits. Workplace safety. A measure of job security. And protection against management abuse. In other words, don't count me among those who vilify organized labor, which in many parts of the country offers the best hope for hanging on to a place in the middle class.

Of 66 foreign consular offices in Los Angeles, 26 are along one thoroughfare--Wilshire Boulevard. Consular offices issue passports and other documents to citizens of the sponsoring country who live in the area; issue visas to Americans wishing to travel in the country; look after the interests of citizens and businesses under treaties and other international agreements; report to home governments on political and economic conditions; and promote trade and tourism.

Harlan Cleveland, 90, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who led the University of Hawaii for five years, died May 30 of bone marrow cancer in a continuing care facility in Sterling, Va. Cleveland was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974 after serving as President Johnson's ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for four years. During his tenure as university president, the University of Hawaii at Hilo was created and the William S. Richardson School of Law opened.

Bernard L. Hyink, a prominent educator at USC and other California universities who co-authored the popular textbook "Politics and Government in California," has died. He was 91. Hyink died June 24 in Fullerton of internal bleeding, said his daughter, Shirley Kramer. The political science expert's long academic career was frequently interrupted by assignments for the U.S. and California governments beginning in the 1940s.