Robert Greene

Proposition 1A What it does: Authorizes $9.95 billion in bonds to build an electric train to get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just over 2 1/2 hours. Back story: This is the governor's and the Legislature's baby, years in the making....

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A national group dedicated to religious freedom is joining a fight between Amish farmers and some Wisconsin towns. The National Committee for Amish Religious Freedom has filed a brief asking for permission to intervene in a...

Last week began and ended on high notes, sort of, for the billionaire Orange County crusader behind some of California's most recent tough-on-crime ballot measures. On June 2, an anti-gang proposition that he is backing with $1 million from his personal...

Karen Bass, California's new Assembly speaker, visited The Times last week to discuss her efforts to fix California's tax structure, negotiate a balanced budget with Republicans and reform foster care in the state. Below is a partial transcript of her...

Curtis Jackson, better known as the rapper 50 Cent, is no stranger to controversy. His list of high-profile feuds is lengthy, surpassed perhaps only by the number of outrageous things he says. He has carefully cultivated the persona of a bully, an anti-...

Several published works by Newsday staff members were honored Thursday night at the annual awards dinner of the Long Island chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Newsday.com clinched the prize for best Web site at the ceremony, hosted by...

Times editors recently returned from a retreat, and I hear that one of the things they decided while discussing the future of the newspaper was that they must keep the names of previous mayors out of news stories. I had not realized that throwing around...

Ethan Nadelmann, president of the Drug Policy Alliance, visited the L.A. Times editorial board recently to discuss alternative approaches to America's war on drugs. This is a partial transcript of that discussion. Ethan Nadelmann, president, Drug Policy...

If "Special Order 40" sounds vaguely like a term from a spy or science fiction thriller, that's in keeping with the surreal conversation that is raging around the 1979 Los Angeles Police Department rule. Specifically, the order has figured centrally in...

Let's blame it on Google. If the search engine monolith weren't so dizzyingly successful, its stock wouldn't have been worth billions of dollars to the 16 company founders and insiders in 2006 who decided to partially cash out. That stock sale did more...

As Gov. Schwarzenegger and State Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez insist their respective insurance-mandate health care plans are still alive, the California Nurses Association is actively fighting both plans in favor of a single-payer system similar to...

The most vulnerable person living on the streets of skid row is a 65-year-old veteran who has been homeless for 37 years. He has kidney and liver disease, has been to hospital emergency rooms four times in the last three months and has been arrested...