SUPREME COURT HEAR ARGUMENTS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT JUVENILES HAVE MIRANDA RIGHTS Mark Walsh at...
California: “An Archipeligo of Prisons”
A special report on the financial troubles of our fair state that appears in the current issue of...
Sheriff Fires 6 Deputies Accused of Christmas Party Beating
The six—which the LASD will not name—were part of a clique that worked on the 3rd floor...
Bringing Some Logic & Common Sense to the Deficit Wars
Bruce Schmiechen has just launched a new blog that is worth your time. It is called The Titanic...
Susan Straight & The Sad Spring Blooms of Teacher Pink Slips
The gifted novelist Susan Straight (who teaches at UC Riverside) writes in the Huffington Post...
Push to Cut CDC’s Vaccine Funds Could Harm CA’s Health
Mother Jones lays it all out. Here’s the deal: In the past year, California has experienced...
Another Man Freed by DNA Testing—After 27 Years in Prison
Virginia inmate Thomas Haynesworth joined his family on Monday after 27 years in prison. Monday...
Sunday Boating in Topanga: “Dude, Are We, Like, Floating?”
The above depicts part of why those of us living in Topanga found the drive home yesterday evening...
Defending Teachers
After the loathsome teacher bashing that has been coming from certain conservative quarters these...
R.I.P Warren Christopher – A Man Who Mattered
The LA Times editorial hits exactly the right note about the exceptionally bright, exceptionally...
Power out and rain craziness so no posting
Just getting home with all the flooding, trees down and slides has been challenging. (Note to...
Four NY Times Reporters to Be Released
Here’s the NY Times report of Friday morning: Four New York Times journalists missing in...
House Votes to Cut NPR Funding. So, is Public Radio Really Left Biased?
As you likely know, the House of Representatives has passed bill that would defund National Public...
Saving Hamilton High
Students from Hamilton High School music and humanities magnets will be staging a walk out and...
This Real-Time, L.A.-Based Radiation Monitor Says Stop Freaking Out
This radiation freak out reality check is courtesy of GOOD magazine. Here’s the heart of...
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day (Kiss Somebody, Irish or Not)
/>
Innocence Watch: 20 Years Behind Bars…and More
OUT OF THE FIRST 239 EXONERATIONS PROVEN BY DNA TESTING 175 involved mistaken eyewitness...
Four New York Times Reporters Missing in Libya – UPDATED
The journalists are: Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the paper’s Beirut...