Los Angeles Watchdog Group Tracks Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars in City Contracts

The blue plastic tab on the Ninth District waste contract file was broken, and the folder itself was three ounces too light. It sat on the center of my desk under a film of grey California dust that had settled overnight.

Raymond Ellis adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses and pointed a blunt finger at the index page. He was fifty-eight, a UCLA political continue reading …