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D.J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie (2017)

D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles," among other books about the social history of Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.

D. J. Waldie (2017)
At the Start of 2012: Downtown's Continuing Rollercoaster Ride
Annual roundups have a common theme - it's always "the worst of times and the best of times." And that certainly is true of downtown at the end of 2011…
A '50s Postcard' from Sunny Los Angeles
Los Angeles was beautiful then (more beautiful than we realized or cared to consider).
'For Auld Lang Syne' from Wikipedia
2015: Another 'Long Time Past'
At the year's ending, we all remember for the sake of some "long time ago."
Surveillance Fail: Police Cameras That Don't Make Downtown Safer
Too many of the dozen or so surveillance cameras on downtown streets are failing to deter crime.
The Happy Ones
Give Me an Ñ! But Does It Make Any Difference?
Linguistic purity on the streets of El-Lay.
The Few. The Proud. The Reindeer Guardians.
May you and yours be as well protected this holiday season. And may we all have a better 2012.
Follow the Money, and You'll Find a Billboard
More than $600,000 was spent by billboard lobbyists in 2011. It's a sign of the times.The humorist Ogden Nash famously rhymed I think I shall never see, /…
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A Gray Day in Los Angeles and Ireland
It was spitting rain when I walked home, which put me in mind of Ireland.
Happy Holidays from 1911 Los Angeles
Defeat of the socialist candidate for mayor brightened the season for the Los Angeles Times.
Metro Ignores Bus Riders. Mayor Ignores Housing Authority. Council Members Ignore Reality.
Apparently, a plague of institutional ignorance is sweeping though the city's troubled bureaucracies. Recent cases in point...
How We Got This Way (Los Angeles has Always Been Suburban)
For better or worse.
Forgotten Angeleños, Remembered Briefly
Lost, unwanted, or unclaimed out of fear, there are thousands whose burial is left to strangers.
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