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		<title>Social Justice Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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WOMEN PRISONERS AT CHOWCHILLA AIM TO HELP VICTIMS
The best research (and my own anecdotal observation) suggests that one of the essential components to transforming one&#8217;s life away from gangs and/or a similar law-breaking past requires that one face squarely the harm that one has caused and then give back in some way to one&#8217;s community. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA&#8217;s Foster Kids v. DCFS v. LA Times Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, first the LA Times ran an article last Friday titled, “L.A. County will no longer strive to reunite families.”
Like many who at least nominally follow foster care issues, I read the startling headline and the article that followed with a sinking heart.
Reporter Garrett Therolf wrote:
The decision is the most significant of several reforms made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Dat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Laissez les bon temps roulez!!!

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		<title>The Amazing Temple Grandin &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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HBO has a new movie for television debuting this weekend.  It is a bio pic of sorts based on the life and memoirs of writer/biologist Temple Grandin.
If you&#8217;re not familiar with Grandin, she is an autistic woman who is considered to be one of the nation&#8217;s top animal biologists.  She credits her exceptional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great American Crime Drop&#8212;A Hard Look at the Causes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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My friend Joe Domanick is part of a new online criminal justice journal called The Crime Report.&#8221;  It should be an every day destination for anyone who is interested in the many-faceted world of criminal justice. 
This week Joe has a two-part story about the drop in crime in America-&#8211;and about what has, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now for a Nice, Calming Whale Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Thursday has been one of those days.
* The stock market tanked Thursday morning based on the newest perception of a stumbling global economy. 
*Thursday afternoon Mayor Villaraigosa did what the City Council would not and ordered the layoffs of 1,000 city employees to help balance the city&#8217;s budget.  (Naturally, the layoffs will pretty much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Kennedy Slams California Prison Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I would love to have been at this event Wednesday night.  The LA Times&#8217; ]]></description>
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		<title>The Inexplicable Love of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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I was reading Lit, Mary Karr&#8217;s alcohol-soaked but sequin-bright third memoir, when I received this second essay from Venice High School senior Nina Montoya. Nina, if you&#8217;ll remember, is one of  English teacher Dennis Danziger&#8217;s students and part of a PEN-in-the Classroom workshop run by author Amy Friedman., who is also Danziger&#8217;s wife. 
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim McDonnell New Chief of Long Beach PD!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The very excellent Jim McDonnell has been named Chief of the Long Beach Police Department. As you all remember, the longtime LAPD Assistant Chief recently short-listed for the job to replace Bill Bratton. 
Long Beach is a complicated city of more than 367000 residents spread over 52-square-miles.   It has the tenth busiest port [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Very Cool News!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, here&#8217;s the deal:  Each year for many years the  Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has honored four journalists,  &#8220;members of the profession who demonstrate good news judgment, a strong sense of ethics and a passion for getting the story right&#8221;.  The honors are given to [...]]]></description>
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