Ronald Reagan

Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator

2013-05-21 16:10:00

Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La Ca�ada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...

Melissa Joan Hart says Kickstarter failure 'started out wrong'

2013-05-20 15:22:00

Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff's recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show "Veronica Mars." Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart,...

Reagan the Berkeley basher

2013-05-18 00:00:00

Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...

'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation

2013-05-17 15:00:00

At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...

Letters: Reagan and a radicalizing UC

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Re "Reagan and the fall of UC," Opinion, May 10 Seth Rosenfeld argues that then-Gov. Ronald Reagan's opposition to the 1960s radicalization of the University of California campuses — Berkeley in particular — was the main driver in the...

L.A. Now Live: Amnesty debate looms over immigration bill

2013-05-13 07:24:00

Four times as many people are potentially eligible for legal residency under a current bill proposing mass legalization. The specifics of the current proposal are different from President Ronald Reagan’s in 1986. Join us at 9 a.m. as we discuss...

Debate over amnesty looms over efforts to reform immigration laws

2013-05-12 17:17:00

In 1986, lawmakers decided the problem of illegal immigration had to be dealt with. More than 3 million people were living in the United States after crossing the border illegally or overstaying their visas. A new law signed by President Ronald Reagan...

McManus: The second-term scandal plague

2013-05-18 06:52:00

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...

Herald Examiner photographers reflect on the good ol' days

2013-05-12 20:05:00

Nick Souza doesn't remember developing the film of what he considers his most noteworthy front-page photo. He doesn't even recall printing the image. What he does remember is "standing on a giant ladder in the middle of Broadway" to photograph co-...

L.A. Votes: Greuel halts ads, DWP becomes central issue in race

2013-05-08 08:06:00

With less than two weeks to go until election day, mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel’s campaign has suspended television advertising, a move that reflects her continuing struggle to raise enough money to compete head-to-head on the airwaves with...

Flip Wilson: The Persistence of Geraldine Jones

2013-05-05 10:50:00

In Sunday's Calendar (and online here), I review "Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar," a worthwhile new biography of the late comedian by Kevin Cook ("The Last Headbangers," "Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything"). The...

Don't dilute CEQA, improve it

2013-05-09 00:00:00

I remember life before the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. I grew up in Altadena and Pasadena during the late 1930s and '40s. All too often I awoke to thick smog and air quality warnings. I watched as segments of the San Gabriel Valley...

Enrique Padilla, center, participates in the strike in front of UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center as workers walk off the job and protest in Westwood.

2013-05-21 09:58:00

As governor, Ronald Reagan (seen here in 1967) harshly criticized student protests at UC campuses.

2013-05-17 17:06:04

Ronald Reagan, left, is seen in 1968, when he was governor of California. Walking with him is his communications director Lyn Nofziger.

2013-05-09 16:59:59