President Bush’s answer to our persistent economic woes is to assemble a few hundred carefully selected guests, make them feel important as they hash out the same old policy muck, and finish the day ...

Mark Lacter, the former editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, died after suffering a stroke last week. He was 59. Lacter was most recently a writer and editor at LA Observed, where he worked ...

Outgoing mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may be looking to leave office on a celebratory note (with a glass of wine in hand, according to one report) but at least one of the politician’s critics has ...

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Mark Lacter has been the editor of the L.A. Business Journal for almost nine years, with a two-year break (ending in 2001) as a senior editor at Forbes. He told the staff this morning that he will ...

Folks, I'm sad to announce that Mark Lacter has passed away. His wife, the mystery author Laura Levine, told me that Mark suffered a stroke yesterday and could not survive the bleeding on his brain.

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