Editorials, columns and letters to the editor.
Readers respond to recent reporting on the Vine Street bike-lane fight, the Beachwood coyotes, the fate of the Cahuenga night market, and the Walk of Fame that will not stop being repaved.
The county bond on November's ballot would retrofit and expand aging branches, the Hollywood reading room among them. Its limits are real; so is the case for a yes.
One hundred years of covering one neighborhood — some notes on the century, and on the two worst predictions in this paper's history.
I filed the paperwork to make Stage 7 a landmark, and I stand by every word of it. I have also come to think the building is the easy part.
A pending overhaul of the city's street-vending permits is a chance to stop pretending the sidewalk taquero is a problem, and to write rules a vendor can actually follow.
Six days a week it is asphalt for parking. On Sunday it does the civic work a plaza is supposed to do, and almost never does.
Hollywood's traffic is not a problem to be solved. It is a civic character we have been living with for a hundred years, and it has taught us more than we admit.
A street-services supervisor on the hour when the sidewalks belong to his crew, the stars get washed by hand, and a clean street means nobody noticed.
We keep staging the fight between saving old buildings and building new homes as if the two cannot occupy the same street. The neighborhood's own history says otherwise.
Readers respond to recent reporting on the stalled Walk of Fame repaving, the new Tuesday night market, the still-shuttered reading room, the skate park's promised June opening and the return of the Runyon Canyon 10K.
