John Buntin

Recent Articles

• Plague of Errors
• Aug 1, 2005
• Hospital infection rates are rising and killing 90,000 patients a year. Can the states put a stop to it?

• Rainbow Strategist
• Jul 1, 2005
• Anthony Thigpenn has spent years promoting reconciliation among blacks and Hispanics. L.A.'s new mayor needs him.

• Father Time
• Mar 1, 2005
• There's a growing focus in welfare policy on a long-neglected part of the problem: fatherhood.
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• Pier Pressure
• Oct 1, 2004
• Ports are struggling to balance the need to expand with the public's newfound interest in urban waterfronts.

• Relying on Faith
• Aug 1, 2004
• When it comes to delivering social services, church-state cooperation is rife with possibility--and controversy.

• Sugar Daddy Government
• Jun 1, 2004
• A new generation of billionaires is remaking American cities. The cities are better off; the democratic process sometimes suffers.

• Gangbuster
• Dec 1, 2003
• Bill Bratton is going after crime in L.A. the way he did in New York. But it's a different place. Gangs are huge and the police force is very small.

• Gangbuster
• Nov 30, 2003
• To the casual motorist driving west on Wilshire from downtown Los Angeles, MacArthur Park comes as a pleasant surprise. With its wide lake and palm...

• Texax Counties In The Driver's Seat
• Oct 1, 2003
• State cedes power to get new toll roads built.

• Setting Colleges Free
• Sep 1, 2003
• Higher ed wants to offer states a deal: Let us run things our own way, and then judge us by the result. Should states accept?

• Shrink Vs. Shrink
• Aug 1, 2003
• Ever hear of 'prescribing psychologists'? One state thinks they can fill gaps in mental health care. Psychiatrists doubt it.

• Shifting The Burden of Benefits To Public Employes
• Jun 1, 2003
• In the face of unprecedented budget shortfalls and escalating health care costs, states and localities are cutting back on employee benefits, particularly health insurance--increasing co-payments for doctor visits and raising monthly premiums and deductibles.

• Docking Pollutants: L.A. Port Vows To Be A Green Neighbor
• May 1, 2003
• Some 3,000 ships pull into the Port of Los Angeles every year, generating $1.4 billion in revenues for state and local government and thousands of high-paying jobs for area residents. For neighborhoods surrounding the 7,500-acre port complex, however, this economic activity--diesel-powered tractor-trailers unloading cargo, container ships idling in port--creates some of the most polluted air in the Los Angeles basin.

• Spouting Off
• May 1, 2003
• St. Louis has the Gateway Arch; Seattle has the Space Needle. So when Dayton, Ohio, began redeveloping its waterfront as an urban park three years ago, civic leaders decided on a fountain as the defining landmark for their downtown skyline.

• Mean Streets Revisited
• Apr 1, 2003
• Ex-cons coming home in big numbers threaten the stability of fragile inner-city neighborhoods.