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		<title>Could the City Attorney Keep an Eye On the LAPD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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When newly elected City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was sworn in on Wednesday, one of the more interesting things he announced was his plan to hire 200 investigators that would allow his office to have what amounts to its own small police force.  Trutanich hinted that such a group might, among other duties, provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the CA State Parks:  3 Reasons Why It Won&#8217;t Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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The now familiar tango continues in the California state capitol in which the governor threatens hideous actions if the lawmakers don&#8217;t get their collective acts together and come up with a viable budget by a certain deadline,  the lawmakers miss the deadline, and the governor re-calibrates his threat.
One of the worst of Arnold&#8217;s previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arrest of Alex Sanchez:  Part 3 - The Bail Hearing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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Yesterday, Los Angeles gang intervention leader Alex Sanchez had his bail hearing at the US District Court on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles.
The drama that played itself out in the 8th floor hearing room of the US District Court building was both informative and disturbing. 
As you&#8217;ll remember, Alex Sanchez is a former MS-13 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 7 American Teenagers Think They&#8217;ll Die Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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In a brand new study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota pediatrics expert, Dr. Iris Wagman Borowsky, found that almost 15 percent of American teens believe they will die before age 35.
Dr. Borowsky also found that the adolescents who were the least hopeful that they would survive past 35, were the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got State Budget Problems?  Hey, Just Cut Inmate Food.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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For the last month, reports have been drifting in that various states have been trimming their troubled budgets by cutting prisoners food&#8212;both in quantity and quality.  For instance, Georgia cut inmates food from three meals down to two.  
And, in Alabama, a federal judge ordered the Morgan County sheriff locked up in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Jackson:  the News Insanity &amp; the Beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[American artists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Michael Jackson - Black Or White (Official Music Video) - Watch more funny videos here

I realize I haven&#8217;t said anything about the death of Michal Jackson.  For one thing, I have been traveling the past few days, but mostly I have been silent because I found it more than a bit vexing that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Arrest of Alex Sanchez - Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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I am still in Washington DC. (I was at Bennington College going through the last ten days of my MFA program, which was wonderful! My son flew in to see his middle-aged mom graduate. Then jumped over to DC for the week.  Am flying back tonight&#8212;and very ready to be home in LA and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Sanchez Arrested:  Dear FBI, WTF???! - UPDATED</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2009/admin/alex-sanchez-arrested-dear-fbi-wtf/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/gangs/2009/admin/alex-sanchez-arrested-dear-fbi-wtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
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NOTE:  FOR UPDATE, scroll down
My friend, Alex Sanchez, the executive director of Homies Unidos, and one of the most respected gang intervention leaders in Los Angeles County (and arguably in the nation),  was taken into custody by FBI agents this morning at his Bellflower home.

Alex is among those named in a federal indictment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgive Them, William Osborne</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2009/alan-mittelstaedt/forgive-them-william-osborne/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2009/alan-mittelstaedt/forgive-them-william-osborne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Mittelstaedt</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Courts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>

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No saint, but where&#8217;s the harm in a DNA test?
Anyone with a trace of commonsense and compassion would have supported William G. Osborne’s request for a post-conviction DNA test.
 That would leave out five empathy-void robes on the U.S. Supreme Court denied him.  Ironically, so too the Obama administration, which filed papers opposing Osborne’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Weirdness&#8230;. All is Fixed</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/root/2009/admin/blog-weirdness-all-is-fixed/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/root/2009/admin/blog-weirdness-all-is-fixed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life in general]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[root]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[writers and writing]]></category>

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For those of you who might have had the unfortunate experience of  logging into WitnessLA today with certain browsers, and finding yourselves getting unwanted file downloads for no apparent reason, all is fixed.  (But for WLA to load properly you may have to clear your browser cache.) 
Sorry about that.  (No harm [...]]]></description>
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