Notable Stories
Express humorist Alice Kahn claimed to have coined the word "yuppie" in a 1983 column. This claim is disputed, but no definitive origin for the word has been determined.
In 2002, the paper's coverage played a crucial role in uncovering the Your Black Muslim Bakery scandal.
The Express placed actor Gary Coleman on the ballot for governor in the 2003 California recall election as a satirical comment on the recall of Democratic Governor Gray Davis.
In February 2009, the paper uncovered an alleged extortion scam by the user review website Yelp, Inc.. After the story's publication, several lawsuits were filed against the company.
A 2005 profile of the environmentalist Van Jones noted that he had, in his youth, identified as a "communist" and been a member of the activist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or stories:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people’s hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that’s going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons.”
—Fred M. Rogers (20th century)