Robert Greene

For most of a century L.A. sheriffs, aided by the county supervisors, passed the office along to their hand-picked successors.

In June 1999, Los Angeles voted to remake itself.

The biggest question in today’s California election may be Bernie versus Hillary, but every voter in Los Angeles County has at least seven little questions as well: How should we mark our ballots in the races for Superior Court judge?

You already know all about William Johnson, the white nationalist who was selected as a Donald Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Of the more than 400 judges sitting on the Los Angeles County Superior Court, there is a very small handful of manifestly bad ones.

When a large enterprise like Los Angeles County government attempts something extraordinarily ambitious such as effectively eliminating homelessness, yet repeatedly falls short, it’s sometimes hard to tell whether the rubble left by each failure forms a series of impenetrable barriers against the next attempt – or whether it instead forms a staircase layered with experience gained and lessons learned, leading upward toward eventual success.

“What am I going to do with an apartment?”

Imagine the father of two young children whose mother has died or disappeared.

News flash: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors allocated $100 million to fight homelessness and came up with plans to make sure that inmates leaving prison and patients leaving hospitals don’t end up on skid row.

Proposition 47 is an amazing success, and recidivism by inmates who got out of prison because of it is exceptionally low, the Stanford Justice Advocacy Project said in a study released last week.