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

stairwell, and the hum of our old office refrigerator was the only sound in the room.

Raymond had left a photocopy of the city’s general ledger on my desk, right next to a two-dollar lukewarm paper cup of decaf coffee.

I turned on the desk lamp and pulled the ledger closer, comparing the total waste management allocations against the continue reading …