Five Urgent Vin Scully Succession Plans

L.A. Must Prepare For Life After the Voice of the Dodgers, Before It’s Too Late

MEMORANDUM

To: The People of Los Angeles
From: The Future
Re: Urgent Need to Deal with Vin Scully Succession

I, The Future, do not typically communicate via memo. But as a Los Angeles native (yes, The Future was born here), I must intervene in the past when my hometown faces a mortal threat.

The mortality of Vin Scully, the Hall of Fame announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is such a threat. Scully binds together Los Angeles like no other living person. He is, as the Los Angeles Times declared in 2008, “this …

The Greek Dilemma

Europeans Have To Be Given a Say in Their Future

The idea of a Greek plebiscite to challenge the European debt bailout plan may be dead. But don’t exhale yet. The world will soon see more European referenda that could …

There’s An App For That

How the Digital Revolution Changes California’s Governments

Richard Price, chief of the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District, was having lunch at a deli when he heard an emergency vehicle approach the restaurant. The emergency crew parked …

We’re All Birthers Now

Our National Identity Crisis About Personal Identity

President Obama’s release of his birth certificate, to answer unfounded suspicions about his place of birth, was widely described as an extraordinary act. It wasn’t. Unreasonable demands for birth records …

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

But Spare Me the Lies About Anything Being Possible

Baseball, like America, is based on a lie: that the past doesn’t hold us back; that the old ties and old bonds can be cast away; that each new season …

California to Lindsay Lohan: Sorry!

Even LiLo Couldn't Behave This Badly

Dear Lindsay Lohan,

I owe you an apology. Not for prosecuting you for allegedly taking a $2,500 necklace that wasn’t yours – I know, I know, you think the entire universe …