*Proposition 6: The Most Implosive
By Max Taves
October 30, 2008
A tiny, unnoticed clause could allow the use of much looser hearsay in trials.

*Questions Still Surround Oliver Stone's W.
By Nikki Finke
October 30, 2008
Winner or loser? Original or borrowed? Investors or Chinese gangsters?

*L.A.'s Proposition B: The Most Sneaky
By Paul Teetor
October 30, 2008
It repeals a ban on low-income housing taller than two stories. It just doesn't say so.

*Proposition R: The Most Expensive
By Daniel Heimpel
October 30, 2008
Suburbanites hold the cards in approving a countywide sales-tax increase for mass transit.

*Election '08 Voting Guide: Endorsements From a Freethinker — No on 8, Yes on 11. And a Nod to Mark Ridley-Thomas
By Marc Cooper
October 30, 2008
Why siding with Arnold on redistricting makes sense, and other ballot notes.

*Proposition T: The Most Divisive
By Jorge Casuso
October 30, 2008
Things get absurd between slow-growthers and pro-growthers in Santa Monica.

*Barack Obama's Slippery Fund-Raising Slope
By Patrick Range McDonald
October 30, 2008
Small donors aside, he's awash in cash from big labor and business. Can he say no?

*What Could Stop Obama: Secret Racist Democrats
By Jervey Tervalon
October 30, 2008
The AP-Yahoo poll on race and what it says about our prejudices that still remain.

*Proposition 5: The Most Threatening (to the Prison Industrial Complex)
By Mark Groubert
October 30, 2008
More drug treatment means fewer criminals, and fewer criminals could mean fewer prisons.

*The Red Scare and Average Joes
By Joe Donnelly
October 30, 2008
What we talk about when we talk about socialism.

*Proposition 7: The Most Confusing
By Judith Lewis
October 30, 2008
Why environmentalists are against solar power.

*It's Going to Take a Whole Lot More Than a Democratic Majority to Save Us
By Marc Cooper
October 30, 2008
Hope, not faith.

*Proposition 11: The Most Misunderstood
By David Ferrell
October 30, 2008
The League of Women Voters, Common Cause and AARP seek change in Sacramento.

*Diane Watson: Hillary's Gal
By Mark Groubert
October 30, 2008
A talk with the 68-year-old congresswoman.