L.A. Secession: It Can't Be Worse Then Being Ignored

"The battle for San Fernando Valley independence ostensibly pits the downtown power structure against Valley business leaders and homeowner-activists. But the front line in the secession struggle cuts right through the northeast Valley, where most of the Valley's African Americans and hundreds of thousands of Latino immigrants live. There, theoretical arguments about taxes paid and city services received aren't the talk of the town. Instead, it's City Hall's inattention to their daily lives."

Thanks to Chris Steins