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

basement office of the Watchdog Initiative, where the air was always cool and smelled of old cardboard. Raymond Ellis, the UCLA ethics professor who spent his Tuesdays helping me sort through municipal disclosures, was already there. He was sitting at the dusty oak desk, adjusting his wire-rimmed glasses as he compared two printouts of the city ledger.continue reading …