For many of us, the LA Weekly has been painful to watch in the past couple of years. The economy...
Charlie Beck is Confirmed as LA’s 55th LA Police Chief
An hour and a half into a meeting that started at 8:30 a.m. or so, and after much...
Social Justice Shorts – UPDATED
UPDATE: FROM THE OH, REALLY? SEZ YOU! FILE Once again proving my contention that the world of...
Sunday/Monday Picks & Must Reads
THE MATTER OF JUDGE MANUEL L. REAL His reversal rate is estimated to be 10 times the average for...
Social Justice Shorts: 2 Cases of Professional Dodging…& More
USC’S NEON TOMMY REPORTER CALLIE SCHWEITZER CAUSES LA’S PUBLIC HEALTH GUY TO HIDE OUT ...
While Police Were Out Front, Murderer Crept Through a Back Window- UPDATED
This report has has been updated, corrected and expanded as I got more information. Sometimes...
When a Sex Offender Moves to Your Neighborhood
Okay, I believe in second chances, (and third chances, and fourth chances) and I also understand...
CA’s Unemployment at 12 percent, But What If You’re a Felon?
Unemployment in California is at 12.2 percent and expected to go higher when the new figures come...
Happy Veterans Day…With Gratitude
With respect and gratitude to those who have served our country.….here is an excerpt from ...
Handicapping SCOTUS and Juvenile LWOP
Monday’s hearings on the two Florida cases, each involving juveniles who received sentences...
Floating Garbage Nation
One should not miss Lindsey Hoshaw’s gruesomely fascinating article in Tuesday’s NY...
Jesse Katz and Ressurecting an LA Field of Dreams
Saturday night, my pal Jesse Katz had a book reading at Vroman’s in Pasadena, for his newly...
Suing California’s Prisons Over State-Ordered Solitary
Last February I linked to an NPR report by Michael Montgomery about a man named Ernesto Lira, a...
Monday Alerts: Charlie Beck & SCOTUS
CHARLIE BECK & THE COUNCIL Monday, Chief of Police designate Charlie Beck will go before the...
11:07 p.m eastern: Health Care Reform Has Passed the House
Next step. The Senate.
Bratton, Colbert, Beck and….um…McGruff the Crime Dog
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
13 Dead at Fort Hood, 30 Wounded
I’ve put up a live twitter freed about the ongoing Fort Hood story, in the box to the...
USC’S Neon Tommy Reporters Tackle the Swine Flu
One of the models being talked about for its importance to journalism’s future is the...