Meanwhile, I share my pal Marc (Cooper)’s sentiments about the president’s Afghanistan...
Illegal and Dreaming
The December 1 issue of LA Youth has a very good first-person story by an undocumented So Cal high...
More LAPD Command Staff Changes
Below you’ll find the release that announces the latest round of musical chairs going on at...
ED BLUES: An LA Teacher Rejoices In & Grieves for His Students
(Posting will be daily, but somewhat light between now and Friday as it is the last week of classes...
USC 28, UCLA 7: A Few Words About the Squabble
Kevin Roderick has the summary. But I have a comment or two. The Trojans dominated in a sloppy...
Being Thankful….
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LA City Council Says Yes to Medical Marijuana
After a meeting that lasted seveTuesday, the LA City Council decided to act sensibly by voting to...
Charlie Beck: The Shape of the New Command Staff
I’ve been madly editing and grading around a zillion pages of student papers (and will be...
Arresting R*E*V*O*K
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> On Sunday, November 22, a store called 33rd Los Angeles had an...
Sunday, Monday Hits, Picks & Must Reads
VANISHING IN A DIGITAL AGE I’m bored out of my mind with the New Conventional Wisdom that...
Charlie Beck’s 1st Staff Meeting: It’s All About the Accessories
So ….when you are a brand new chief of police how do you gain the respect and professional...
UC Regents Hiking, Students Protesting, Cops Dispersing
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> The UC Board of Regents has evidently taken a break in its...
Training the Gang Interventionists – Politics Intervenes
When all the gang intervention dollars were gathered under the single roof of the mayor’s...
The LA Weekly’s Truthiness Problem
Yesterday I linked to Kevin Grant’s Neon Tommy story about new LA Weekly editor-in-chief...
Can Drex Heikes Rescue the LA Weekly?
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...