Next L.A. / A look at issues, people and ideas helping to shape the emerging metropolis
“Any man who reads beyond the second paragraph of the Los Angeles City Charter would be out of his mind to run for mayor.”-SAM YORTY, L.A. mayor from 1961 to 1973.
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