LA Mayor Goes In Search of Transit Dollars
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined other big-city mayors and some governors at the White House on Monday to talk transportation with President Obama. Villaraigosa is trying to get advance funding to expand LA County's light rail and subway.
Gauging Prop. 19's Effect on Border Drug Violence
Some supporters of Proposition 19, a measure on the November ballot to legalize marijuana, argue that regulating pot will end violence associated with Mexican cartels and the drug trade. But officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have their doubts.