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WLA Election Endorsements, Part I
GOVERNOR DEMS: Well, JERRY obviously. REPUBS: Hey, do whatever you want but, barring a some...
The Sad Bad Lesson of John Gardner & Parole System Failure
On Wednesday of this week, the Inspector General of California, David Shaw, issued a 35-page...
Neon Tommy & the Crenshaw Project: The Art of Remaking a Neighborhood
In 2007, the Los Angeles Urban League began a project that, in theory anyway, is exactly what LA...
Carmen Trutanich Wants His Own Grand Jury
LA’s City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is pushing for the passage of a bill in the state...
McGinniss & Palin: the Journalist and the Ex-Governor
I find I cannot ignore the increasingly out of control McGinniss/Palin neighbor issue. (In case...
Tuesday Round-Up
SUPREMES AGREE TO HEAR CASE AGAINST (EXTREMELY VILE) FUNERAL PROTESTERS On top of his grief over...
That Dragon-Wearing, Fire-Playing, Hornet-Kicking Grrrlll
The cover of Sunday’s New York Times Book Review is devoted to the third book in Stieg...
Happy Memorial Day….and Welcome to Another Topanga Days
Memorial Day weekend is our national day of remembrance. It is also the weekend that the...
NBC’s The Filter: School Strippers, A Controversial Scholarship, & More
I was on NBC’s The Filter on Wednesday night. As usual, we talked very speedily about a list...
80 to Life: Sentencing Tedi Snyder – UPDATED
UPDATE: Tedi Snyder will be sentenced today, Friday, in division 120 on the 13th floor of the...
Arizona’s Immigration Law and It’s Affect On Policing
On Wednesday, LAPD’s Chief Charlie Beck, and Chiefs of Police from Houston and Philadelphia...
Support WLA’s Investigative Reporting—For Free
As most of you know, WitnessLA has embarked on a partnership with Spot.Us.com called the LA...
Desperate for Expungement: When a Record Keeps You From Work
Even before the economic downturn, 60 percent of all employers surveyed on the topic said that they...
Dear Meg Whitman: Please Check Your Math
In the competition between Republican gubernatorial candidates to win the...
The Morality of “24”
After 8 seasons, Monday night was the last night of the series, “24.” Most times, no...
Homeboy Review Opening Party, Tuesday at 7 p.m.
A very cool reading and party starring a group of talented Homeboy poets and featuring a short talk...
School Reform, Teachers’ Unions and “Nixon in China”
It used to be that it was conservatives who railed about public schools— asking for vouchers...