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...
WikiLeaks: Why It’s Now About Free Speech & Taking A Stand
Forget what you think about Julian Assange. It doesn’t matter whether you like him or loath...
Probe Says Prison Guard Misconduct Allegations Routinely Suppressed
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. – Fyodor...
IG Report Says LAPD’s Racial Profiling Probes Need Work
Last month, the Feds criticized the Los Angeles Police Department for not doing enough to root out...
Elizabeth Edwards: 1949-2010 – Rest in Peace
She was smart—although, as it turned out, not in choosing husbands. She was brave, electing...
Opening Up Dependency Court for the Safety of Kids
On Tuesday the LA County Board of Supervisors will vote on its state legislative agenda for the...
Prop 8’s Arguments, California’s Prisons, & Criminalizing School Breakfast
THE 9TH CIRCUIT HEARD THE PROP 8 ARGUMENTS, AND IT LOOKS GOOD FOR DAVID BOIS AND TED OLSON It is...