"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
L.A. Times interactive Google fire map L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez In times of natural disaster, the best often surfaces in all of us. Donations, warm blankets, sandwiches. Whatever is needed, we’re at the ready. Unless it involves Malibu. Yeah,…
Food pantries are running out of supplies while large retailers are noticing pronounced drops in spending on the days leading up to shoppers getting a paycheck. The poor and even middle income working families increasingly can’t afford to make even…
Thoughts and quotes from the superb New York Times magazine feature story on drought in the southwest. The problem Lake Mead, the enormous reservoir in Arizona and Nevada that supplies nearly all the water for Las Vegas, is half-empty, and…
The first evening we arrived, exhausted, dragging suitcases behind us, morale a little bit bruised, the Kurdish family sent over their representative – a 9 year old boy missing two front teeth, holding a lopsided cake, “We’re Abu Mohammed’s house-…