Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Give Innovation a Chance
By Bill Boyarsky
Looking for clues to help save public schools, I visited teacher Ellie Herman’s drama class at Animo Pat Brown Charter High School. . . .
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
A Different Kind of Fighter for 5th District
By Bill Boyarsky
L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz hustled into his fourth-floor office suite followed by two aides, just after he finished a long council session. I . . .
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Unite, Take Over the Schools
By Bill Boyarsky
Los Angeles Schools Superintendent Ramon C. Cortines has a strong message to Jewish parents and others nervously considering public school education . . .
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
A Time for Action
By Bill Boyarsky
Karen Bass, speaker of the California Assembly, looked remarkably calm, considering that she’d just arrived to speak at The Jewish Federation in . . .
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Will recession fuel a return to public schools?
By Bill Boyarsky
Throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District, the recession is prompting middle-class parents to take a look at public middle and high schools . . .
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Waxman will play key role in putting Obama agenda into action
By Bill Boyarsky
As chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman is poised to play a leading role in putting the Obama agenda into law, . . .
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Ed Guthman leaves legacy of fighting injustice
By Bill Boyarsky
When Ed Guthman died Aug. 30 at the age of 89, the Los Angeles Jewish community lost one of its most distinguished . . .
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
No ‘pushovers’ on Zukin’s Ethics Commission
By Bill Boyarsky
Zukin is particularly interested in an important issue that places the ethics commission at odds with the city council -- the future of the . . .
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Don’t underestimate the power of the Jewish newspaper
By Bill Boyarsky
Sophisticated Los Angeles Jews don't have to turn to a Jewish newspaper for political advice or for guidance through the pitfalls of American . . .
Thursday, May 29, 2008
A doctor’s visit
By Bill Boyarsky
A visit with Dr. Eugene Gettelman, who celebrates his 100th birthday on June 17, shows how much medicine has gained and lost in the last half . . .
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Paris with a Jewish accent
By David Suissa
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
City Voice: Yaroslavsky takes on developers in push for affordable housing
By Bill Boyarsky
In defending middle-class neighborhoods, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky is taking on an issue that reaches to the heart of Los . . .
Thursday, March 27, 2008
City Voice: The perfect combination
By Bill Boyarsky
An evening at Shomrei Torah Synagogue got me thinking about Barack Obama and how much the San Fernando Valley has changed since I first roamed there . . .
Thursday, February 28, 2008
City Voice: Keep education in the spotlight
By Bill Boyarsky
I write about education a lot because it's important for the Jewish community to have a strong public school system. Education is part of the Jewish . . .
Thursday, January 24, 2008
What makes a good politico?
By Bill Boyarsky
What makes a good politician? What makes a good Jewish politician? Zev Yaroslavsky, Henry Waxman and Laura Chick each, in his or her own way, . . .
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Middle schools are a tough sell
By Bill Boyarsky
The meeting at Daniel Webster Middle School, in the heart of the Westside, embodied all the difficulties of convincing parents that their children . . .
Thursday, August 30, 2007
City Voice: Condo conversions cause casualties
By Bill Boyarsky
In Jewish communities in Los Angeles, tenants are uneasily contemplating a fate increasingly familiar to renters - the conversion of their building . . .
Thursday, July 26, 2007
City Voice: The Mayor is cheating ... on L.A.
By Bill Boyarsky
Breaking the commandment against adultery shouldn't disqualify you for public office. Still, I don't think the adulterer should expect cheers from . . .
Thursday, June 21, 2007
‘Reboot’-ing Gen Y
By Bill Boyarsky
She was absolutely right. Movements don't start with specifics or 10-point plans. They start with people meeting up and talking. Ideas are generated, . . .
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Presidential hopefuls scrutinized on Israel
By Bill Boyarsky
The Democratic presidential candidates' attitude toward Israel is undergoing the same sort of word-by-word examination that was such an important . . .
Thursday, April 26, 2007
City Voice: Will condo threat inspire unity among seniors?
By Bill Boyarsky
More than 25 years ago, Los Angeles' senior Jewish renters joined with young progressives and persuaded a reluctant city government to adopt rent . . .
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Sam Zell is one tough Jew
By Bill Boyarsky
Happily for them, most of the old-time Los Angeles anti-Semites who used to hang out at the downtown California Club are either dead or too old to . . .
Thursday, March 8, 2007
City Voice: We’re not who we think we are
By Bill Boyarsky
There is a preconceived notion about the Los Angeles Jewish community being affluent, increasingly conservative and preoccupied with Israel to the . . .
Thursday, February 1, 2007
The Times, it is a-changin’
By Bill Boyarsky
Times are changing, and the Times, with circulation and advertising dropping, can no longer afford to be so high and mighty. At long last, the paper . . .
