Utility giant Southern California Edison’s popularity contest in Lakewood is apparently far from over. The electric company started alienating its (sorry) power base last month when its workers quietly installed a 13-ton, 93-foot power pole at Centralia Street and Palo Verde Avenue, outside the home of Shelby and William Ranson.
“I think if SCE would have [...]

This Week: Acres of Books, Slum Futures and Coyotes
Tues | APR 1 Dandy British supermarket Fresh & Easy—with locations in Long Beach, Lakewood and Compton—enters its six month of American operation with crumpet sales somewhere around 70 percent below expectations and a marketing disconnect so severe that the Los Angeles Times interviewed a Norwalk man [...]