A towering test

Residents of a Northridge neighborhood are getting a crash course in democracy, Los Angeles-style, as they organize on the fly to battle a telecom giant's proposed cell phone tower in their community.Tony Castro in the Daily News.

The newly formed Northridge South Neighborhood Council hasn't even elected a permanent board or gotten any funding and already finds itself in the midst of a David vs. Goliath fight against T-Mobile, the nation's fourth-largest wireless carrier.