Does size matter?
Opinion |
July 27, 2008
Los Angeles was sold to 20th century America as the city of sunshine, health and happiness – the favored place of suburbs, swimming pools, tans and movie stars. Read more
Articles by D. J. Waldie
61 articles since 1997
Taken for a ride
Opinion |
May 18, 2008
Welcome aboard Metro – the buses and trains that are boarded 1.4 million times every weekday. Read more
Get intimate with your neighborhood
Opinion |
December 28, 2007
The fear of foreclosure leaking down from the foothills and the valleys hasn’t yet risen to panic in my piece of L.A. flatland. Read more
The powers that could be
Opinion |
November 4, 2007
In the slightly rundown meeting rooms of the Los Angeles Convention Center, worlds collided last weekend. Read more
A developing power
Opinion |
August 19, 2007
LA.’s own “soft revolution” is, for the present, colored bright orange – the color of Home Depot’s nearly ubiquitous logo. Read more
L.A.: Guilty of dysfunction
Opinion |
July 1, 2007
A RULING against the Department of Water and Power and an adverse
decision in a lawsuit challenging the city’s right to tax cellphone service. Read more
Whose downtown is it?
Opinion |
April 22, 2007
WHEN I WAS growing up not quite middle class in a suburb at the
southeast edge of the county, when downtown Los Angeles seemed as
remote as Duluth, my father worked in the former Southern California
Gas Co. Read more
Nature amid the concrete
Opinion |
February 11, 2007
A few days ago in Lakewood, a crowd of 300 gathered on the west bank
of the San Gabriel River flood-control channel to take a walk. Read more
The Men Who Made The City
Magazine |
August 13, 2006
Imagine a very long hallway lined with portraits. Read more
