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 78 and [...]

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 concerns regarding Central Region High School #13 (Taylor [...]

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, the Daily News wrote as follows:
Los Angeles Unified [...]

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 of the city Planning Department, [...]

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 Los Angeles. He [...]