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Our story on overcrowded housing involved dozens of interviews and visits to tightly packed apartments where COVID-19 ran rampant.

“The story of Dodger Stadium has been condensed and mythologized. It has become—with good reason—like a fable. The real history is less like a fable and more like the story of a crime that Los Angeles perpetuated on itself.” As a junior in high school in Culver City, Calif.

Dodger Stadium when it opened in 1962 was the first privately-financed MLB stadium in nearly four decades. We look back at some challenges over the final few months of construction at Chavez Ravine, and anticipation of the Dodgers new ballpark.

Calendar Letters to the Editor Sunday, November 21

Dodger Stadium’s violent origin story Vox.com 2 hrs ago © Getty Images Before Los Angeles had Dodger Stadium, it had Palo Verde, La Loma, and Bishop. They were three neighborhoods that made up the thriving, predominantly Mexican American community in what is now known as Chavez Ravine. And it was one of few places, due to redlining and racist land covenants, that Mexican American families could buy property and build wealth in Los Angeles. But things changed in the late 1940s. The city ch...

I grumbled the moment my editor suggested I write about Cinco de Mayo this week. It’s not that I’m against the holiday or the way it’s celebrated. Sure, any mention of the word “drinko” would set me off on a tirade about cultural appropriation when I was younger. But as I’ve gotten older and with the advent of I largely live in a world free of obnoxious people looking for an excuse to get drunk under the guise of celebrating my Mexican heritage, so there’s no need to get on my so...

February 21, 2021 As a rule, teams tend to be less aggressive, and take fewer chances, when behind in games. The logic is sound, but at the same time, is it really necessary? Is there not often something to gain by pushing the envelope and putting pressure on the opposing side, regardless of the score? I asked that question to Derek Shelton earlier this week. “I think it’s game-situational,” the Pirates manager replied. “The question I would [throw] back to you — this is rhetorical, o...

You can fool most of the people most of the time. P. T. Barnum. by Paul Haeder / December 24th, 2020 Someone said, “If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything.” Oh, the idiocy of America!! Shit-dog, this country, now, and going back when I was in my teens (13 when my family moved us from Paris, France, to Arizona – of all places), well, lying, cheating, achy-breaky heart, don’t you know, thieving, scamming, and, well, bombing (military and economic), t...