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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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Ax Falls on L.A. Unified School District
Months of talk of heavy staff cuts at L.A. Unified came to fruition this week, with over 6,000 layoffs now planned and larger class sizes planned as cost-cutting measures.
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Los Angeles's Downtown: Developing Again?
Downtown Los Angeles has a new skyscraper or two planned--but is this sort of development the best thing right now, for either downtown or the developers?
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Secret Government Meetings In Los Angeles
California's open meeting laws have been violated dozens of times in Los Angeles County, and the district attorney's office is on the case.
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Will Federal Stimulus Money Help Local Education?
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger assures California's school districts that they'll get their federal stimulus money, but some people doubt he'll be able to ride out looming state budget crises without educational cuts.
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City Attorney Race Continues, And Heats Up
LA's civic duties didn't end with March's election; with no majority winner, the race for city attorney went into a runoff.
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A Taxing Week in Southern California
The state sales tax in California went up this week by one shiny penny. The state levy on most dollars you spend is now 8.25 percent. Localities often have their own add-ons, so what you are paying in the the Southland ranges from 9.25 in Los Angeles t...
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L.A. Unified School District Tries to Balance the Books
The L.A. Unified School District has put off til later in April some tough cutback decisions driven by both local and state money problems. But more fiscal trouble awaits.
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Sun Sets on Solar Power Measure B
Measure B, the local solar power measure, went down to a narrow defeat. That might mean something important for the distribution of local power--and we're not just talking about electricity.
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Water, Water Everywhere
While L.A. rarely sees much water falling from our skies, it is still always on our minds--it's cost, its availability, even its palatability.
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Obama Takes Southern California
L.A. may be apolitical, but it's pretty big news for everyone when President Obama comes to town. What will his administration's current stimulus plans mean for Southern California?
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Welcome to City of Angles
Welcome to the latest KCET Local blog, "City of Angles." And no, that's not a typo. This blog will cover the local political scene and its many complicated happenings, cross-currents, and angles as they unfold.
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