Reporting on health and immigration from Los Angeles and California's Central Coast. My work has appeared on NPR, PBS' Frontline website, California Watch, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Las Vegas Sun and in many other outlets.
Robin Urevich
Writer Reporter
Los Angeles
Reporting on health and immigration from Los Angeles and California's Central Coast. My work has appeared on NPR, PBS' Frontline website, California Watch, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Las Vegas Sun and in many other outlets.
Los Angeles was one of the first cities to enact a so-called living wage law in 1997. The law requires companies that do business with the city -- such as airport restaurants or parking lots -- must pay workers at least $9.08 per hour with health benefits, or $10.33 without.
Two new films offer conflicting perspectives of corporate retailing giant Wal-Mart. The first movie is a documentary by videographer Robert Greenwald, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price. The retailer is fighting back with a "war room" for public relations, and it's being helped by Robert Galloway's enthusiastic Why Wal-Mart Works, and Why that Makes Some People Crazy.
Naval Postgraduate School Professor Thomas Johnson is one of the nation's top Afghanistan scholars, but for him, the battle-scarred nation is no academic enterprise. It's the object of a lifelong fascination that began when he read the stories of Rudyard Kipling in small-town Illinois and dreamed of an impossibly exotic land.
Sometimes a plot of land can become the object of a tug of war. This is the case in downtown Los Angeles where some 350 people, mostly Mexican and Central American immigrants, are cultivating a community garden. Now, they're battling with the landowner to avoid eviction. Robin Urevich reports.
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Writing, reading and roller blading through life. Intrepid traveler, hiker, language learner, and raucous laugher. Fan of great storytelling.