The victory in the state Assembly was a narrow one, but a victory nonetheless for Governor Jerry Brown and opponents of California’s troubled enterprise zone program....
The blowback from getting high for some people is starkly simple: Americans want drugs that ship through Mexico, and the resulting crime surrounding this commerce exacts...
The ripples continue to spread from Frying Pan News reporter Gary Cohn’s piece on California’s enterprise zones, which were created in 1984 to help small...
Words of Fire, the Frying Pan’s new poetry section debuted this week with a series poems the new mayor should read. These five poems by some...
It’s a bright, guilty world. –Orson Welles in The Lady from Shanghai But there is no water. –T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland The oldest Mercedes...
As dawn breaks through the crimson curtains, you rise, kiss Amá goodbye, the only time I see you do this, drive away, circles of dust and...
“If politics were the science of humanity.” –W.C. Williams Dear American people, I’ve just got to talk to you about your government. You are the...
It’s late, so the late Karen Carpenter comes off the radio at 1 a.m. The diners complain; she’s passé, she’s so post-mortem. You see, it’s Night...
after the long day’s hustle, Papa returned home waving fistfuls of Tootsie Rolls, wolfed down his supper, changed from his suit into his long-sleeved gray coveralls...
America’s economy will suddenly grow by $400 billion — roughly three percent –on July 31, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis begins to include in its GDP calculations...
There are many similarities between the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s and the union movement that preceded it in the early decades of...
We all know that working for Walmart is no picnic. They pay low wages, they slash hours, they offer little or no job security, they exploit...
This week, Frying Pan News has been following stories as Walmart workers joined caravans coming from across the country, converging at the company’s annual shareholders meeting in...
For several years, Walmart’s annual shareholders meeting has been the staging ground for high-profile protests against the retail giant’s treatment of its employees. As Walmart workers...
This post originally appeared on Dog Park Media. The East, just out this weekend, is a movie ostensibly about radical anarcho-environmentalists that has little to say...
This article originally appeared in The Nation. In The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (Spiegel & Grau, 2013), David Graeber’s engaging new book on Occupy...
Councilmember Eric Garcetti’s two-year campaign to become Los Angeles’ first Jewish-Mexican-Italian-American mayor ended in victory early this morning when his challenger, City Controller Wendy Greuel, phoned...
Although voters had been warned that it might take weeks after Election Day for a winner in the Los Angeles mayoral race to be declared, outgoing...
Los Angeles’ polls close at 8 p.m. tonight, so there’s plenty of time to vote – and brush up on who and what is on the...
When you see a news story about Election Day in Los Angeles there’s a good chance it’s not about any issues or personalities involved during any...