Because They Are Black

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

One of the most compelling and under-covered stories in Los Angeles this autumn is the Crenshaw neighborhood’s fight with MTA to win one mere mile of subway through a commercial/school stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard and a station at busy Leimert Park.

What to Make of the Councilman and His Impersonal Essay

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Re “Exceptions Should be Made for Senior City Workers, Malsin Says”

When a well-known figure around City Hall finished reading City Councilman Scott Malsin’s seemingly self-serving blast-the-city essay yesterday in the Culver City News, he cracked sardonically: “Scott never has been accused of being a team player, and here he goes again.” If the members of the City Council are to be viewed as evenly and faceless as the four anonymous black tires on your car, Mr. Malsin is the whitewalled, wirespokes exception.

Bald, Bold and Intimidating

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

Last time I asked a political friend why the state Legislature needs to be in session more than 30 days a year, she frowned and said, as if we were being overheard, that she concurred with my conclusion. “But please don’t attribute that to me.”