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

was beginning to build along the freeway, a steady stream of brake lights stretching into the hazy distance.

I reached the basement office of the Watchdog Initiative at four in the afternoon.

The basement was quiet, save for the low, rhythmic hum of our old office refrigerator in the corner. I did not turn on the overhead lights, preferring continue reading …