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Brian Doherty

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. He is author of three books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006) and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), and Gun Control on Trial (Cato Institute, 2008).

Doherty's reporting and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications, and he has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck Show.

He ran a small indie record label, Cherry Smash Records, from 1993-2001, and has lived in Los Angeles since July 1994.

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Can Our Legislature Improve Itself?
CA's Committee on Improving State Government has its first meeting, as the legislature struggles to show an angry state populace that it can reform itself.
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L.A. Medical Marijuana Scene in Tumult
Things get more uncertain, with judges knocking down the existing moratorium, the city attorney threatening a crackdown, and the city council ready to act on restrictions.
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Angry About Supergraphics
City Attorney Trutanich threatens City Councilwoman Jan Perry with possible jail time over a big billboard on the Regal Cinemas in the downtown L.A. Live complex.
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Chief Bratton's Awkward Goodbye
Police Chief Bratton finally leaves L.A. for New York, amid recriminations over police hiring and the actual use of a trash fee hike that citizens believed was meant to hire new cops.
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L.A. Schools Fall Back on Federal Money
L.A. Unified School District expects to use federal stimulus money to make up for a $400 million shortfall in money they expected from the state.
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Villaraigosa Agrees to Police Hiring Freeze
Mayor Villaraigosa does a turnaround on his stance that L.A. needs more cops pronto and agrees to a cost-conscious hiring freeze.
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D.A. Declares War on Marijuana Dispensaries
L.A. D.A. Cooley decides the way almost all medical dispensaries do business is illegal.
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California Seen as a "Failed State"
California's fiscal, governing, and economics problems have the UK's Guardian newspaper declaring that we might end up American's first example of a "failed state."
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Nahai Out at DWP; Will Still Get Paid
The embattled David Nahai has resigned from his post as chief at the Department of Water and Power; he'll still draw the same exec salary as a consultant for the rest of the year.
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Water, Water Everywhere...But in Our Pipes
Breaking pipes continue to flood streets, and our infrastructure is making L.A. a media laughingstock. But LA DWP says things aren't really worse than usual.
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GOP Gov. Candidate Whitman Hit on Her Non-Voting Record
Three Republican candidates for governor are beginning to joust in public, and Silicon Valley exec Meg Whitman, who has never before held public office, is being slammed on her voting record, of all things. That is, the fact that she didn't register to...
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Council District 2 Election Goes to Runoff
The race to fill the City Council seat from District 2 goes to a runoff, with state assembly member Paul Krekorian and former Paramount exec Christine Essel the top contenders, winning over many less prominent candidates with tighter local connections ...
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