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...
9th Circuit Rules That Muslim Woman Can Sue About Hijab Removal
It’s astonishing that allowing this suit was even a question. In 2000 Congress passed a law...
Saluting Monday’s New Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famers Because…..
…OTHERWISE WE ARE LEFT HOPELESSLY CONTEMPLATING the ever worsening news about Japan’s...
Police Commission Ruling on the Manuel Jamines Shooting: Lawful
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Commission ruled—in agreement with the investigation by...
Thinking of Japan, the Blocked California Budget and More
MEMORIES OF JAPAN, SOME INDELIBLE, SOME WASHED AWAY The frightening news out of Japan cannot help...
Monday Must Reads – The Immigration Version
9TH CIRCUIT SAYS THAT A MAN NOT TOLD HE’D BE DEPORTED MAY WITHDRAW HIS PLEA It’s not at...
THE SUPREMES – Ethics and an Important Sentencing Decision
SHOULD THE SUPREME COURT HAVE A CODE OF ETHICS? A rising chorus of voices is calling for the...
8.9 Earthquake, Tsunami – #PrayingForJapan
Excellent (if alarming) online live streaming from Japan on KCET.org.
Sheriff Lee Baca Stands Up to Peter King’s New Witch Hunters
Lee Baca was just great in the face of the bigoted and staggeringly arrogant questioning from...
Illinois Governor Quinn Signs Bill Repealing Death Penalty
AMAZING. Here’s what the Chicago Sun-Times said about the historic move: Acting on perhaps...
Affordable Housing & the War Over Redevelopment — by Shashi Hanuman
EDITOR’S NOTE: The newest and bloodiest front in Sacramento’s ongoing budget battle ...