Seventy percent of all of the 2 million inmates in American prisons are doing time for drug and...
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Calling All WLA Commenters….Ideas and Suggestions Needed!
Logan Pass in Glacier Park, MT Next week I’m headed out on a road trip, eventually ending up...
Remaking the Schools (Let me! No, let me!)
Okay, we’ve got the mayor and his possible school cluster takeover and transformation. And we...
Fox + Henhouse = Tragedy
I am posting clips from this this Huffington Post article without much additional comment. The...
LIAM RECTOR: 1949-2007 – Always Be Closing
Late Wednesday night I heard that the poet, Liam Rector, killed himself earlier in the day. He...
MLK Redux
My full column for the LA Weekly on last Friday’s closure of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor...
When ‘Gators Escape!!!!!
Okay, yes, granted, I should be writing about something entirely different right now (and if my...
Why the Feds Killed King-Harbor Hospital
I’ll post more on this tomorrow when my very quick and dirty MLK-Harbor postmortem goes up...
The Santee Revolt: Escalation – UPDATED
As I wrote yesterday, last week, parents and students demonstrated at Santee Education Complex...
Santee High School ….and the War of the Smart Kids
IN THE BEGINNING, South LA-located Santee Education Complex was going to be the new high school...