Capitalism is failing, Republicans are proposing a $700 billion bailout that sounds remarkably socialist, and John McCain blames Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, once a Republican congressman from Newport Beach, California.
President Bush appointed Cox to the SEC job in 2005, when I was editor of OC Weekly, the Village Voice paper in Orange [...]

Save Banning Ranch, boost local music

MARC B by JOE MCGARRY
Call Banning Ranch another battle in the endless war against reckless development. The 412-acre property, filled with sagebrush, ospreys, willows, falcons, lizards and owls—and surrounded by Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa and Fountain Valley—hasn’t faced the developer’s shovel since 2001. But now Banning Ranch owners [...]

But on a certain level, Culture Clash will always be three dudes from East L.A.

PHOTO by HENRY DIROCCO
It’s a month before their month-long residency at South Coast Repertory, and the three men of Culture Clash haven’t done their homework.
“Who’ve you talked to so far?” we ask them one morning, as they claim they spend months [...]

Why does Long Beach resident Bill Napier want to ‘Free Sheriff Mike Carona’? He has his reasons–and now, one more

PHOTO by JENNIFER STOCKDALE
“Do you know who owns that weird car out there?” I asked, pointing to the strangest Toyota ever glued together—part camper, part car, part spaceship and the part that most interested me, a [...]

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The Press-Telegram yesterday and the New York Times today report on the federal indictment of Orange County Sheriff Michael Carona. We tell you this not to indulge in a vestigial passion for our old beat, but to congratulate our former colleagues at OC Weekly, where investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley broke the story of sheriffial [...]

Our Scott Moxley shot the sheriff
Back when your District Weekly staff was part of the OC Weekly, our colleague R. Scott Moxley wrote countless stories about corruption in the Orange County Sheriff’s office. Now, news that Moxley had it right from the start: federal authorities have indicted Sheriff Mike Carona–Larry King once called him America’s [...]

Bad air quality in Long Beach, and Kimora Lee Simmons
The fires still reign as the Press-Telegram’s top story today, though Kelly Puente has the local angle with a piece on air quality.
Elsewhere in the P-T, there’s more excitement: Kevin Butler writes about the Long Beach Unified School District superintendent banning teachers’ union leader Scott [...]