Mayors and police around the country have pretended public health is the reason for shutting down Occupy protests, but their actions belie their words.
Norman Smith was within two months of receiving a liver transplant when the same hospital that prescribed him the pot de-listed him. Now, he may die as the result.
To mark the drug war's 40th anniversary, hundreds of people will gather to demand an end to the criminalization of drug users and call for health-centered policies instead.
We should be applauding -- not demonizing -- the LA County Department of Public Health for taking this important first step to help keep young people safe.
A group of Los Angeles carwasheros (the term for Southern California’s 18,000 largely immigrant car wash employees) have won a landmark case against four carwash facilities.
As calls continue to boycott Arizona over its racist immigration law, many are focusing on Major League Baseball, where nearly a third of the players are Latino.
"Jaime exposed one of the most dangerous myths of our time - that inner city students can't be expected to perform at the highest levels," said Edward James Olmos.
L.A. has sold the idea of enriching the residents of the Owens river valley before, while ripping them off in the dark. Will the residents buy into it?
Attorney Cooley has sweeping plans to boost the profits of drug cartels, and increasing the slaughter these vicious gangs perpetrate on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.
In spite of a law on California books for over a decade allowing sales of pot, L.A. DA Steve Cooley suddenly announces, "The time is right to deal with this problem."
Bodies left unclaimed, cadavers stacked high in morgues and burial rates tumbling as loved ones cut funeral costs: the crippling recession is even haunting the dead across the United States.
