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

of the cover folder, I retrieved the small paper parking stub I had found weeks earlier. It was worn at the edges, the thermal paper slightly yellowed around the borders.

I reached into the middle drawer and took out my grandmother’s brass magnifying glass, holding it over the small slip of paper.

Under the glass, the faint purple ink of the garage time continue reading …