Fighting City Hall
- Share via
Re “ ‘Gadfly’ Gets Unusual Reward -- a Victory,” Oct. 28: City watchdog Fred Siegel of Lawndale has helped redefine the ubiquitous city hall gadfly: a civic-minded resident who does his or her homework before stinging deserving, inept bureaucrats and their tunnel- visioned city councils.
Lino S. Paras
Duarte
More to Read
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
