Opinion: In today’s pages
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The Los Angeles County budget is balanced and in on time. Shouldn’t that be enough to satisfy the editorial board? It isn’t:
In most organizations, a well-crafted budget reflects a rational structure, skilled management and careful oversight. But L.A. County’s fiscal achievements are instead paired with dysfunctional, and sometimes deadly, programs.
Read the rest here. The board also weighs in on the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a whistle-blower’s hostile workplace suit and the U.S.’s trade complaints against China.
On the opposite page screenwriter Wesley Strick wonders exactly when actress and murder victim Lana Clarkson went from making B-movies to living them, and how, as a Southern California girl, she didn’t learn from the cautionary tale of Sharon Tate. Edward Taehan Chang asks if the Virginia Tech gunman’s Korean ethnicity really matters, while columnist Ronald Brownstein reflects on the Tech tragedy, President Bush’s role, and prevention.