Charles Ornstein

Charles Ornstein started his career as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News before moving on to the Los Angeles Times. “My wife, who wasn’t my wife at the time, her first time being in L.A. was when our plane touched down,” Ornstein recalled. They stayed for years, and Ornstein went on to be lead reporter on a Pulitzer-Prize-winning series of articles on King/Drew hospital. Today, he’s a senior reporter at ProPublica. Read more about him below.

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A. I haven’t really listened to music …

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Cynthia Stamper Graff

Cynthia Stamper Graff is President and CEO of Lindora, Inc., which owns eight retail clinics – the topic she visited Zócalo to discuss. Graff, born in Alaska and raised in …

Dev Gnanadev

Dev Gnanadev, only days before joining Zócalo to discuss retail clinics, concluded his term as president of the California Medical Association. Gnanadev, a cardiovascular surgeon and chief medical officer at …

Mary Kate Scott

Mary Kate Scott, founder and CEO of Scott & Company and a professor of health care business and consulting at USC, joined Zócalo to chat about retail clinics and how …

Erika Schickel

Erika Schickel came to Los Angeles 20 years ago from New York City. “I came here as an actress and I wound up a writer,” said Schickel, an essayist, playwright, …

Postponement of Self

by Laura Riding

I took another day,
I moved to another city,
I opened a new door to me.
Then again a last night came.
My bed said: ‘To sleep and …