Juanita Millender-McDonald

State Assembly: Levey, Popp, Willoughby, Bradford

2006-05-30 00:00:00

TERM LIMITS SWEEP OUT much of the state Assembly this year, a fact that must be cheering to anyone who instinctively dislikes politicians. But there's not much to cheer about. After six years, state legislators are just beginning to become effective on...

Erin Aubry Kaplan: The King/Drew Syndrome

2006-09-27 00:00:00

IT'S ENOUGH TO make anyone believe in conspiracy theories. After surviving repeated rounds of bad press for 20 years, King/Drew Medical Center was finally knocked out in 2004 by a series of articles in this newspaper. According to the series, King/Drew...

Requiem: 2007 passings of note

2007-12-29 00:00:00

Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...

Furutani is expected to win the runoff election in 55th Assembly District

2008-01-20 00:00:00

Democrat Warren Furutani is the overwhelming favorite in the Feb. 5 special election for the vacant 55th Assembly District seat, but he'll need to run again later this year if he wants to keep the post for more than a few months. The special election was...

California politicians can't reform themselves

2007-10-22 00:00:00

Thursday, the Los Angeles Times ran an editorial pleading for California Republicans to help save the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, vetoed by President Bush. The very next day, The Times had another of many editorials pleading for...

Hospital Backers Concede Choices Tough

2006-09-24 00:00:00

A day after Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center resoundingly failed a "make or break" federal inspection, some of the iconic public hospital's most vocal supporters conceded that it may not be fixable — at least not by the county. Supervisor...

Black isn't enough

2007-06-30 00:00:00

THE SENSE OF triumph was almost audible in the giant banner headline that ran in last week's Los Angeles Sentinel, the city's oldest black newspaper: "Laura Richardson Wins". Richardson, the first-term assemblywoman from Long Beach, will likely be...

King/Drew's Trauma Unit Ordered Shut

2004-11-24 00:00:00

Despite impassioned protests, Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to close the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, saying the unit had to be sacrificed as part of a larger strategy to save the troubled hospital. The...

GOP Retains Grip on U.S. House of Representatives

2012-11-07 06:12:00

WASHINGTON -- Republicans held on to their House majority in Tuesday's election, leaving Democrats well short of the net gain of 25 seats they needed to take control. "The American people have once again given the House of Representatives to Republicans,...

Firsts for women: Clinton through Clinton

2008-07-23 13:29:56

by Mark Silva In another decade of firsts for women, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York - the first woman elected to the Senate from New York, and the first and only former first lady elected to public office......

State Sen. Jenny Oropeza waves to supporters at Coast Long Beach Hotel after placing second to Assemblywoman Laura Richardson in the race to fill the 37th Congressional District seat left vacant by the death of Juanita Millender-McDonald.

2007-06-27 13:17:58

Assemblywoman Laura Richardson has received the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor in the race to fill the seat of the late Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald.

2007-06-25 12:21:42