Hi, dearest readers. I hope your between-holidays week has at least some down time. WLA will be...
A Merry Christmas to All
(Gotta post Fairytale of New York again every year or two. Shane MacGowan and Kirsty McColl are...
Follow the Gang Money, Part 3: Six Suggestions for Moving Forward
Two of the 39 recent graduates of The Los Angeles Violence Intervention Training Academy or...
The Writer, Chapter 4: A Christmas Wish – by Dennis Danziger
The non-fiction story below is part of a series written for WitnessLA by author and Venice High...
FOLLOW THE GANG MONEY: Part 3….ONE LAST UPDATE
TUESDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Alright, it’s finished. AND it’s going up late tonight...
On KPFK’s Deadline LA – Previewing Part 3 of “Follow the Gang Money”
Part 3 of the “Follow the Gang Money” investigative series that is a joint project of...
The Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Passes. A Gift for All of Us
Amazing. The Dream Act had enough votes to pass, 70 percent of Americans wanted it, but...
Just Like Compton – The Novel
Okay, I’m late in telling you about the book reading for the new urban novel, Just Like...
Dog Bites Baby, DCFS Bites Baby’s Mom
NOTE: VERY LIGHT BLOGGING THIS A.M. MORE STORIES AS THE DAY WEARS ON Okay, here was the...
Luis Diaz: A Death at Homeboy Industries
This week I have been working on Part 3 of the Follow the Gang Money series, dealing with how the...
Airforce Blocks Access TO Press, Sheriff Blocks Access BY Press
In his column in Wednesday’s LA Times, Steve Lopez reports that the Los Angeles...
Compton’s McKinley Elementary Becomes 1st “Parent Trigger” School….Maybe
Patrick Range McDonald and Simone Wilson at the LA Weekly are doing a great job of covering the...
Wendy Greuel Audit Finds LA Housing *Forgot* to Collect Millions of $$
In a belt-tightening fiscal climate, where the City of LA has a $350 million short fall in its...
Head of DCFS Trish Ploehn is Out: Did We Want Someone to Blame?
The announcement went out Monday morning that the head of the Department of Children and Family...
Mass Incarceration…Prison Strike in Georgia…LA’s Homeless
The January/February issue of American Prospect magazine contains a special report on what has...
WikiLeaks, Assange, Public Bloodlust & a Few Sane Voices
The hysterical reactions by seemingly sane people on the topic of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange ...
ACLU Settles Historic Lawsuit: CA Schools Don’t Get to Charge for Education
Earlier this year the ACLU filed what has come to be known as the PAY TO LEARN class action suit...
California Appeals Court Tells State’s Schools to Shape Up….& More
On Tuesday, in a ruling that has gotten little attention but that could have lasting impact, the...