Los Angeles Times
October 17, 2005
THERE ARE TWO THINGS we know about the Los Angeles Unified School District. The first is that the school board should have waited until 2006 before putting its latest school construction bond on the ballot. The second is that it has too many students for too few schools.
On balance, the [...]

New York Times
October 13, 2005
By JULIE BOSMAN
PHIL LAWLER, a longtime physical education teacher, used to try to transform all his middle-school students, even the pudgy or uncoordinated ones, into athletes. He taught them to play basketball and baseball and ran them through drills to improve their game.
But his priorities have since shifted away from sports [...]

In the next few weeks there will be five events in which you can have an impact on Los Angeles — a design workshop for the new public high school at Taylor Yard, the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan workshop, the open house to diversify access to and support for the [...]

You are invited to attend a community meeting to discuss preservation efforts for the Zanja Madre, a historic L.A. waterway built in 1781. A portion of this remarkable community artifact was recently uncovered during construction of the Metro Eastside project adjacent to The Cornfields. Please join us to learn more about its preservation [...]

Keeping Historic Millard Canyon and Altadena Crest Trails Open for All
The Center for Law in the Public Interest, together with the private firms of Reed [...]

By Philip Enquist and Craig Webb
Los Angeles Times
October 2, 2005
FOR THE SHEER POSSIBILITIES of renewing dead-ended neighborhoods, opening fenced-off Mars-scapes and providing immense environmental, cultural and recreational benefits, few projects in the world match the potential of an ecology-minded and people-centric revitalization of the Los Angeles River.
Consider those “once-in-a-century” urban waterside projects that have [...]

By D.J. Waldie
Los Angeles Times
October 2, 2005
AUTHOR LAWRENCE Clark Powell remembered his mother arriving in Pasadena at the turn of the last century with her horticultural triumph: a geranium. It was a hard-to-keep exotic back East, a tender plant for middle-class women to hover over in the parlor. She kept her geranium on her lap [...]

Public interest law is not a field of law in the normal sense of the term (such as family or criminal law). Rather it is a way of working with the law for the benefit of vulnerable and disadvantaged people. Public interest law may also apply to working for broader issues, such as, [...]