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

sat during our weekly meetings.

The empty chairs in the small basement office.

By eight the next morning, I was sitting in the corner booth of a quiet donut shop on San Pedro Street, holding a lukewarm paper cup of decaf coffee that had cost me two dollars.

The plastic booth smelled of old pine cleaner and stale grease.

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