This Week Zócalo Minds Your Business

We Get Involved In Your Diet, Your Jury Duty Evasion, and Your Mayoral Elections in Places We Don't Live

One Man, Two Votes—Why Not?: Zócalo’s California Editor and South Pasadena resident Joe Mathews argues that with L.A’s miserably low turnout in city elections, the city needs all the voters it can get.  So why shouldn’t he vote in both L.A. and South Pasadena?  Besides, wouldn’t permitting neighboring non-residents to vote in L.A. elections, or in the elections of any major California regional city, be good for us all?

 

California’s Successful Dilettantes: We owe a lot to California’s tinkerers—the free spirits and freethinkers who know a little about a lot of things and just …

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A Heated Week at Zócalo

Scorching in Santa Monica, Teeth-Gnashing in Sacramento, and Marital Aids in Ancient Greece

An L.A. Weather Report in 2100 A.D.: Based on the current climate-change trajectory, Caltech Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering Tapio Schneider and Caltech Ph.D. student Robert Wills provide an all-too-plausible weather report from Los Angeles …

Smackdown Week at Zócalo:

Crushed by the Pavement, Crushed by Football, a Man-Crush in Amsterdam, and Crushed by Valentine's Day

Smacked to the L.A. Pavement, Without Health Insurance: After a bad fall off his scooter, East L.A. blogger Javier Cabral, aka “The Glutster,” refused an ambulance despite being able to see …

Chinese New Year and Chinese Hackers

Why My Chinese New Year Performance Needs Improvement: In honor of Chinese New Year on February 10, NBC4 News Producer Daisy Lin writes, “By now I should be the one giving …