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		<title>Charging Poor Parents for Lawbreaking Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Martin Berg at the LA Daily Journal wrote a very good column about the unconscionable idiocy that is going on at the LA County Department of Probation.   Since the Daily Journal is hidden behind a firewall, I&#8217;ve reprinted the whole thing below.  
But first, a little back story.
Until this past February 13&#8212;three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Birthday Gift for Edith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Mittelstaedt</dc:creator>
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Activists take lead roles to reopen Burke&#8217;s failed monument
I long ago gave up any hope that Yvonne Burke would be indicted for her failure to stop the dying and maiming that eventually forced King-Drew Medical Center to close in 2007. Every sitting member of the county board of supervisors, who ignored the management problems festering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear County Sups:  Just&#8230;.Do&#8230;..SOMETHING! (Soon, Please.)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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There was a time when it seemed that So Cal&#8217;s best bet for a forward thinking and comprehensive gang program would be LA County, which planned to completely revamp its existing $105 million gang program&#8212;while the City Council and the mayor&#8217;s office seemed to do little more than shoot at each other rather than coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA County Kids&#8217; Scorecard</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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CHILDREN NOW, a national nonprofit that monitors the wellbeing of American children, has just issued its yearly scorecard for California, with measurements that are separated by county.
So how does LA County score in relationship to the rest of the state?  
We are home to 2.8 children under the age of 18.  And when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PROPOSITIONS:  Measure A</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections '08]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gangs]]></category>
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From now through Monday, I&#8217;ll be running informational posts &#8212;written by me and others&#8212;on most of the various propositions.  
(For instance, some of my very smart USC students have written some nice and pithy analyses, which I&#8217;ll be putting online, and there will be more voices)
Then on Monday, I&#8217;ll post a list of endorsements. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Drilling in Your Backyard &amp; Fasting for Votes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles writers]]></category>
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Two good LA stories were produced for USC&#8217;s TV station ATVN by two of my smart Annenberg students&#8211;one present, the other  former.   Since I only teach print journalism and these are broadcast stories, I can&#8217;t claim even the tiniest bt of influence on either.  But, I thought you might enjoy seeing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death on Rails &#8211; UPDATED &#8211; The Text Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:  CBS KCAL News has reported that the engineer was likely texting a teenager, but Metrolink would not confirm and the National Transportation and Safety Board said they were reluctant (understandably)  to deal in rumors.
However, I have additional material that suggests he KCAL story may very well be accurate.

Yesterday, a source with family [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Changing the World&#8230;&#8230;70 Blocks at a Time</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2008/admin/changing-the-world70-blocks-at-a-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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While bad news is never difficult to find, I can tell you exactly where to go tonight for a dose of good news: For those of you within the reach of LA&#8217;s Fox 11 news station, fire up your TiVos and set them to record a half hour news special called A League of Our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>MLK-Harbor Hospital&#8212;the Enabling Continues</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/public-health/2008/admin/mlk-harbor-hospital-the-enabling-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/public-health/2008/admin/mlk-harbor-hospital-the-enabling-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles County]]></category>
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Let us get one thing straight at the outset of this conversation:  Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor is not the only hospital in Los Angeles County capable of  hideous and life-altering screw-ups.  Last year a nurse at Cedars Sinai gave Dennis Quaid&#8217;s infant twins the wrong medication and nearly killed them. My son [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The High Cost of Phoning Home</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/la-county-jail/2008/admin/the-high-cost-of-phoning-home/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/la-county-jail/2008/admin/the-high-cost-of-phoning-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LA County Jail]]></category>
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When activists complained to the Los Angeles County Supervisors that the collect calls that inmates are allowed to make from the  county&#8217;s various jail facilities were too expensive, the Sups agreed on Wednesday to take the incredibly lucrative contract to provide phone service for the enormous LA jail system and open it up for [...]]]></description>
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