Darrell Issa is discussing the market value of intimidation. His business, after all, is fortifying the autos of America. “A guy violates your car,” he says, “you want something ferocious, one step removed from vengeance.” And so his line of car alarms fairly bristles with menace. There is the Viper, the Rattler, the Python, the … Read more
Republican Darrell Issa, the millionaire car alarm manufacturer who wants to be the junior U.S. senator from California, says one of his strengths is that he is not another career politician spouting carefully rehearsed rhetoric. “I refuse to use canned lines,” Issa says. “I think that is what is wrong with politics today: Nobody speaks … Read more
A chimney is all that remains of a home destroyed by the Eaton fire in Altadena, shown in March. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) For his first bill in the U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has joined a Republican colleague to propose a federal tax credit for certain homeowners who retrofit and harden their … Read more
Singer Linda Evans blows vapor from an electronic cigarette to calm her nerves before performing with her chorus made up of singers from skid row in a gala at the City Club in 2014. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times) Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed a pack of bills that will raise the smoking … Read more
KTLA Channel 5 transmission tower, at Sunset and Bronson. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) As television station owners gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual National Assn. of Broadcasters convention, they sent an urgent message to Washington that could be summed up in one word — “Help.” Streaming video has siphoned away … Read more
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law, at his home in Oakland in 2021. (San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst N/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty) Alarmed by President Trump’s unprecedented effort to punish law firms he doesn’t like, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky emailed nearly 200 fellow law school deans across the country last month, asking … Read more
Despite thousands of contested ballots in Florida’s Palm Beach County, a lot of people are calling on Al Gore to act like a mensch and concede the election to George W. Bush–as they contend Richard M. Nixon did in 1960 when he lost to John F. Kennedy amid rumors of fraud. Even the veteran New … Read more
Misoprostol is typically used with mifepristone, which the FDA approved in 2000 for abortion and further loosened restrictions on in 2016 and 2021. (Soumyabrata Roy / NurPhoto/Getty Images) U.S. Supreme Court justices sounded skeptical Tuesday about imposing new limits on the dispensing of abortion medication through pharmacies or by mail. The justices, both conservatives and … Read more
President Clinton, hoping to plug a gap in one of the most successful sectors of his Administration, turned to Wall Street veteran Robert E. Rubin Tuesday to replace Lloyd Bentsen as Treasury secretary. Clinton announced Bentsen’s resignation, effective Dec. 22, and the selection of Rubin at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. Clinton … Read more
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, shown in January, is leading an effort to allow thousands of people to be removed from California’s sex offender registry. (Mike Balsamo / Associated Press) It’s been nearly four decades since a 25-year-old Frank Lindsay landed on California’s sex offender registry after he pleaded no contest to improperly … Read more
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