New York Times By PETER APPLEBOME Coretta Scott King, first known as the wife of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., then as his widow, then as an avid proselytizer for his vision of racial peace and non-violent social change, has died, her sister in law, Christine King Farris, said this morning. She was [...]

January 24, 2006 Board of Education Los Angeles Unified School District 333 South Beaudry Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90017 Re: Central Region High School #13 (Taylor Yard) Dear President Canter and LAUSD School Board Members: The Center for Law in the Public Interest (“Center”), Anahuak Youth Soccer Association, and others are writing to express our [...]

January 27, 2006 Ron Kaye, Editor Naush Boghossian, Staff Writer Los Angeles Daily News P.O. Box 4200 Woodland Hills, CA 91365 Dear Mr. Kaye and Ms. Bohossian: We write to set the record straight regarding the false and outrageous statements in the Daily News article concerning Taylor Yard. In an article on January 26, 2006, [...]

Los Angeles Times By Steve Hymon Times Staff Writer January 8, 2006 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced Saturday that he has hired the head of San Diego’s planning department to help him realize his vision of a denser, pedestrian-friendly Los Angeles that also relies more on mass transit. Gail Goldberg, 62, who will be general manager [...]

January 4, 2006 New York Times By RICK LYMAN Frank Wilkinson, a Los Angeles housing official who lost his job in the Red Scare of the early 1950′s and later became one of the last two people jailed for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee whether he was a Communist, died Monday in [...]