Bobbi Murray
Bobbi Murray is a communications professional who began her career as a grassroots organizer and has worked as a radio producer, fundraiser, media liaison and journalist. Her reporting has taken on a broad sweep of issues--politics, police reform, economic justice, immigration, globalization and labor in such publications as LA WEEKLY, the LOS ANGELES TIMES, LA CITY BEAT and LOS ANGELES magazine, as well as THE NATION.
California Off a Cliff
Hey everybody, have you heard? The California legislature finally passed a budget plan on July 21 (the constitutional deadline is June 15). The state...
Mapping the Meltdown (And Some Possible Exits)
If you’ve ever had occasion in your life to stop and ask yourself “How did I end up HERE?” you already know you don’t...
Job Quality & The Stimulus Package
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — the Stimulus Package — passed by Congress in a painful process in February, proposes to create or...
Walt Weighs In On The Economy
So this is weird: December 5 is Walt Disney’s birthday and I get these two separate Disney things in the e-mail from different people...
In From the Margins
Well well well — Wall Street goes into the dumper after years of “free market” worship and Congress and newspapers and all begin fumbling...
Community Organizing: The Sequel
Election Day’s over, we’ve already blown past “Yes We Can!” to “Yes We Did!”
Now we’re on to watching President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team and...
Doesn’t Voter Fraud Require Actual Voting?
John McCain’s peculiar, over-the-top attacks on ACORN were initially a little hard to take seriously. Even when he kept on, it just left us...
Greetings From Out West
It might have been that brick to the head as a child (long story), but it was October 6 before I realized the second...
The Free Market Ain’t Free
On Friday, President Bush suddenly decided it was okay for Government to make contact with the Market’s Invisible Hand, as long as Government does...
GOP: Organize This!
I kind of knew it before, but watching John McCain’s speech as I write, it’s easy to see how the GOP VP pick Sarah...
Obama’s Nomination: Just in Time For Labor Day
Bill Clinton stepped up the other night and did what he needed to do if the Dems want to win this election: he threw...
You Don’t Have to Go Home — You Just Can’t Stay Here
The wags at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — a.k.a the U.S. immigration agency — launched a pilot program last week that would allow...
The Governor’s Budget Non-strategy
It wouldn’t be surprising to see non-Californians still do a double-take when the title “Governor” is applied to former on-screen cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was...
A Messy Food Fight
Everyone’s a little tense about groceries lately — eggs up to an average of $2.18 a dozen from $1.45 in 2006, whole milk around...
The Thanks of a Grateful Nation
The Marine base that exerts an outsize gravitational pull on Twentynine Palms, Calif. is the largest in the world, and shimmers several miles outside...
Halting the Oil Slick’s Spread
It was bound to happen: Oil goes up to $140-plus a barrel and the president calls for offshore drilling and opening up the Arctic...
A Tale of Two Anaheims
Disney may have won the day against the construction of affordable housing in its "tourism zone" but the coalition forged in the struggle against The Mouse is alive and well and pushing for a community benefits agreement in Anaheim's Platinum Triangle development.
The Grass-roots Factor
This post started out Thursday thinking about an interesting factoid related to the Obama campaign.
But since the big Obama news Friday has been about...
New Math for a New (We Hope) Era
Long, long ago, children, in 1981, Ronald Reagan became President of the United States and expanded the military budget by 43 percent over what...
Obama Could Take a Cue From This LA Dust-Up
Now it’s on! — woohoo! — between Barack Obama and John McCain, who has already morphed into McNasty.
A CBS poll on June 6...