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A view of Rubidoux from Mount Rubidoux Park

Tuesday's Election Could Beget a New Southland City

Riverside County could gain a new city called Jurupa Valley after Tuesday's Election.

Hello, Election Day: A Recap of Related KCET Stories

It's March 8th and that means election day for many, including residents of Los Angeles. Here's a quick link list of posts on KCET relating to the election.

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, front, promotes the city's new smoking ban with L.A. County Health Officer Dr. Jonathan Fielding behind him | Photo by L.A. Quits

San Luis Obispo: The First City with a Major Public Smoking Ban

L.A.'s outdoor smoking ban goes into effect today, but over 20 years ago and 200 miles to the north, San Luis Obispo has the distinction of being the first municipality in the world to have successfully banned smoking in all public buildings, including...

Campaign literature in support of Luis Sanchez

Board

Luis Sanchez is a supporter of charter schools and other non-traditional school models to improve learning in L.A. Unified. He agrees with incoming Superintendent John Deasy that teachers who don't cut it should be out of the educational system.

Shady Dealings: Or the Problem with Planting Trees in Los Angeles

This week California celebrates Arbor Day, a good time to look at L.A.'s Million Trees Initiative.

Media Arts Preview: Predictions, Politics & the Poetics of Cinema

The future and past collide this week in media art, with talk of predictions, politics and the poetics of cinema.

L.A. Election Recap: Low Voter Turnout, Incumbents Stay Put, Most Measures Pass

The City's dire fiscal situation clearly did not motivate Angelenos to head to the polls. The overwhelming majority of voters made a deafening statement, one of total silence.

The number of numbers

Once, a single number summed up the future. But not any more.

A Metro bus arrives as NextBus technology tells a cell phone user that buses will be arriving in 1 and 32 minutes | Photo by Zach Behrens/KCET

Why Angelenos Should Start Taking the Bus More Often

Research shows that time spent outside of transit--walking, waiting, transferring--is more important than the experience of riding transit.

Map of El Camino Real. Courtesy UCLA Young Research Library.

Many Roads to the Historical Southland

Rugged mountains to the north, the vast Pacific Ocean to the west, and inhospitable desert to the east--natural barriers isolate Los Angeles from the rest of the continent on three sides.

A view of Los Angeles from above the parking lot of St. Bernardett's church

Party Affiliations

Searching for a good time on Election Night was tough, even though Tuesday was the day of one of the biggest parties in the western hemisphere

If You Build It, Will They Come? Subprime Lending and the Economics of Newhall Ranch

Developers want to build a 60,000 person city on environmentally sensitive land on L.A.'s urban periphery. But will it take more subprime lending, of the ilk that recently crashed the U.S. economy, to make the project a success?

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