About Mariel Garza
Mariel Garza is an editorial writer, columnist and resident Mexican-American for the Daily News' opinion section, as well its California geography savant. Ask her about any Cali community from Inverness to Banning and she not only knows where it is she's probably worked there.
Before joining the DN opinion section, Mariel was a L.A. City Hall reporter for the Daily News, and a reporter of many other beats for newspapers both large and unbelievably tiny across this great state. She began her professional journalism career while a freshman at San Francisco State University writing for a local neighborhood shopper called The Portalwood Press. She was paid in copies of the paper. Which was free.
After that, she smartened up and only took paying gigs, including one as a copy editor at the Alameda News Group and a reporter, photographer, layout person and newspaper delivery person for the Point Reyes Light. After college, Mariel moved to the "Inland Empire" to toil for various newspapers for low pay. These included the Fontana Herald News (now defunct), the Inland Valley Bulletin, the Los Angeles Times' San Gabriel Valley section (also now defunct), and the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
Then, Mariel went a little crazy, quit her career, moved to Boston and got a job at a Harvard square restaurant called Casablanca. It was a nice, if cold, seven months. But she got better.
Between Boston and the Daily News, Mariel spent a few years working at magazines and dot-coms until the tech bust of 2001 forced her to find a real job. She was lucky that the Daily News was hiring.
Comments
American helping to drive Toyota style. Really?
To quote: "I think we as American leaders understand Americans better than the Japanese do." Really? Then, explain why of all the American cars we use to make here in U.S. 18 are now made in Canada and 13 models are made in Mexico. In our country
now we manufacture cars from Germany, Japan, South Korea and Sweden.
Why am I afraid that the Japanese and other foreign CEO's will learn the American way to do business, and the American way to do business is big and bigger salary, bonuses and perks for CEO's and screw the lowly worker. Please, correct me, if I am wrong.
Dante F. Rochetti
West Hills, CA.
Posted by: Dante F. Rochetti | July 7, 2007 10:06 AM
Thank you for your thoughtful comments on the drug and gang problems. If you really want to understand how we got into this mess, I suggest the following reading:
The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs - http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm
The short history of the marijuana laws http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm
The Drug Hang-Up at http://druglibrary.org/special/king/dhu/dhumenu.htm
Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer
It will be some of the most interesting and surprising reading you ever did.
Posted by: Cliff Schaffer | October 2, 2007 3:32 PM