Ohio-based Diebold, the company that makes electronic voting machines, whose CEO Walden O'Dell, a GOP fundraiser who was quoted as saying in a 2003 letter that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President", was exposed -- through Fox News of all places -- for having a voting machine so faulty that it could be hacked in ten seconds. more ›

One of the great mysteries of our local driving life has been the curious change from Vine street to Rossmore Ave in Hollywood. Last week, PreserveLA came up with the answer noting that Vine is so named because it went through the vineyard of 1880s US Senator Cornelius Cole while Rossmore was named after Miracle Mile's developer, A.W. Ross. more ›