From Why Presidents’ Day? via Why Tuesday? No, not tomorrow Tuesday... the first Tuesday of November, aka Election Day. Why Tuesday? Executive Director and local Los Angeles politico Jacob Soboroff reports from Queens, New York asking why can Presidents' Day, a federal holiday, be moved around for convenience, but Election Day remains a regular workday. Is it not that important? LAist: If election reform successfully moved election day to a Saturday, what would that......

Jacob Soboroff takes to Venice Beach telling locals the Superbowl was moved to Tuesday to make a good point.......

We always encourage you to press that little recommend button at the bottom right hand corner of every post if you enjoyed it. For one, it tells us what you want more of here it LAist. So here's this week's five most recommended posts, as recommended by you: 1. LAist Interview: Matt Reeves, Director of Cloverfield: It was nice to have so many Cloverfield fan sites point to this in depth interview. Who knew that......

We've been hot on the trail of friend-of-LAist Jacob Soboroff and his Why Tuesday? voting-system reform initiative and 2008 campaign coverage. This morning he sent in an interview with our very own Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who was in New Hampshire yesterday to check out the efficiency of that state's No. 2 pencil-driven computerized voting systems. Visit Why Tuesday? for more on SoS Bowen's commitment to certifiable voting machines as well as '08 presidential......

The Non-Partisan Election Reform Organization, Why Tuesday? only has one Christmas wish. And a fair one to wish at that. Presidential Candidates Mayor Giuliani, Governor Romney and Senator Thompson, listen up! Check our our interview with the Executive Director of Why Tuesday, Jacob Soboroff (who happens to be Los Angeles based).......

The man responsible for killing a woman and her two young children in a street-racing accident last month has been tracked down and arrested in Mexico; Martin Marones is expected to be charged with three counts of murder. So many questions! Has "Heroes: Origins" been shelved? Or just "postponed" due to the writers strikes? Will we ever find out who's been offing the group of twelve? And what's up with this ADAM guy??? Two......

We all hear about the Iowa Caucus, but do we really know, as Californians, what's going on over there? Previously: LAist Interview: Jacob Soboroff of Why Tuesday......

LAist had the opportunity to catch up with Jacob Soboroff, Executive Director of Why Tuesday to talk about WT, their upcoming projects and politics. Jacob has worked as a part time advance man for NYC Michael Bloomberg and briefly played the same role for presidential candidate Howard Dean. He moved back from NYC to his hometown of Los Angeles last year, when I first met him, and since returning has video blogged for LA......

Local video blogger and LAObserved contributor Jacob Soboroff was featured last week on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. Jacob is part of the the Why Tuesday? campaign:American voter turnout is so low that we lag behind almost every nation on Earth in voter turnout. So, in 2006, we set out on the road with a video camera to find the answer to a simple question: why do we vote on Tuesday? We asked dozens of......

- Jacob Soboroff hunts the ground where Reggie the Alligator used to live. - CNG kills SuperShuttle driver in Carson. - Valley aquifer contaminated and shut down by DWP. - Still, tap water is the new bottled water at high-scale restaurants. - Here are your Holiday closures for tomorrow. - Was coke involved in Lindsay Lohan's crash? - Southern California Restaurant Historical Society gathered yesterday at Clifton's Cafeteria.......

If you don't know Melrose Larry Green, you might recognize him from Howard Stern. Or maybe you know of his book, Why The Clintons Belong in Jail. Maybe not. Maybe you knew him in Brooklyn in the 50s as Laurence Victor Greenblatt. Whatever the case is, Green is a local celebrity of some sort. Last Saturday at the Keep America Beautiful launch, where Hillary Clinton spoke, Green popped into our little video as we......

If your lips are chapped, you know it must be a City of Los Angeles Red Flag Day. Welcome to yet another one in this unusual season. In other LAFD news, black ice gave them quite a scare when one of their own got pinned by a vehicle that went slippity slip! Maybe now government officials will no longer laugh at this writer when he makes complaints over unruly sprinklers. Pshaw! And please, do......