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-------------------- Gregory Rodriguez: What's left of L.A.'s left? --------------------

L.A.'s once-reliable intellectual left has faltered even as its political cohorts consolidate local power.

Gregory Rodriguez

November 19 2006

IT WAS A LITTLE like Pravda running an expose on Lenin's sex life, or the Wall Street Journal editorializing on the fetishes of conservative economist Friedrich Hayek. Three weeks ago, the L.A. Weekly, once the most reliably left-wing publication in the city, published a cover story all but alleging that the late union chief Miguel Contreras died in a brothel in South L.A.

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