Melissa Runnels is a second-year graduate student at the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree in French & Art History from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She has lived in the Netherlands and was a post-modern dancer in San Francisco for over a decade. She loves language and languages, movement, music, and people's stories. She hopes to use her journalism as a tool of civic engagement.
The stretch of Slauson Avenue between Angeles Vista and La Brea used to be the thriving economic heart of the...
LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has ordered Crenshaw Senior High School to be reconstituted. That's when a school is completely reorganized...
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The Dr. Lawrence H. Moore Math/Science/Technology Academy threw itself a party today to celebrate its 4-month birthday.
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Although the nation has been focused on the presidential election next week, Angelenos will also be voting for a new...
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The California Science Center celebrated its newest exhibit today -- the Shuttle Endeavour. The Endeavour may be grounded, but...
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The idea that raising income taxes on the wealthy will cause them to take all their money and go somewhere...
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This may come as a surprise to car-loving Angelenos, but Los Angeles was designated a bronze-level "bicycle-friendly community" today by...
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If Measure J passes, it would accelerate more than 15 MTA projects, improving highways and rail lines and creating jobs...
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The Citizen's Commission on Jail Violence met in special session with the LA County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, October 9,...
Ron Kaye, veteran LA journalist and observer of City politics, gives us his take on the candidates and the issues.
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It's Son of Carmageddon! Carmageddon Returns!! CHP and LA County officials are preparing Angelenos for impending road closures next week...
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Eyewitness testimony is often a deciding factor in court cases. But it's known to be unreliable. John Edward...
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Twenty years after the Rodney King Riots, community organizers and scholars gathered to discuss where LA should go next, and...
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The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy released its new Drug Control Strategy for 2012. It spends...
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Solar power generation in Los Angeles just got a lot easier through an ordinance signed today by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa....
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Audit shows that procedures to monitor fuel usage in city-owned vehicles weren't well enforced.
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Hoover Recreation Center got a $150,000 grant to improve and beautify its park. Thanks to the LA Parks Foundation,...
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A ballot initiative to convert the death penalty to life in prison without parole gathered almost 800,000 signatures to be...
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The Los Angeles Redistricting Commission voted late last night to approve re-drawn city council maps. The new maps dramatically...
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Lorna Valle drowned her one-year old daughter yesterday and attempted to drown her five-year -old, who remains in critical care...
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Dominga Lopez wants to come to Los Angeles from Mexico to visit her dying sister. The US Consulate in...
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Before there were tents, there were open-air booths selling vegetables, baked goods, and other assorted products. The City Hall...
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In a party-line vote of 52-46, Senate Democrats today voted down a House bill that would have nullified the Federal...
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Around the world, the Occupy movement has taken different tones. LA's movement has been orderly and fairly quiet, while...
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The University of Southern California is moving forward with plans to rebuild and revitalize University Village, a shopping and housing...
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Wallis Annenberg Hall
(opening Fall 2014)
