Boyarsky takes on a new column

The former L.A. Times Metro columnist, city editor and longtime politics writer Bill Boyarsky has begun contributing a monthly "City Voice" column to the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. His topic this month is the Republican Party's courtship of Jewish voters. He focuses on the Valley, where Jews propelled Proposition 13 and the movement against forced school busing a generation ago. Ostensibly "retired" from the Times, Boyarsky is authoring a book on the late California politician Jesse Unruh for UC Press, he writes on occasion for the L.A. Times Sunday Opinion section, and he even wrote one of the guest columns in the prototype issue of the Los Angeles Examiner, the proposed Dick Riordan weekly.