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

but then I stopped and picked up a red pen instead.

The missing annex was not a mistake by some tired clerk in the basement of City Hall.

I drew a thick red circle around the eighty thousand dollars on the photocopy of the ledger page.

By ten the next morning, a heavy bubble-wrapped mailer sat on my desk, positioned directly next to the circled ledger continue reading …