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...
Did Florida’s LWOP 13-year-old Get a Fair Trial?
Amy Bach, author of Ordinary Justice: How America Holds Court, has a troubling article in Slate...
Meet the New Chief-to-Be
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa invites you personally (plus all your closest friends and associates) to...
Choosing Charlie Beck: The Spin Factor & the Future
Most who closely tracked the selection of, at first, 13-candidates, then three finalists, and...
Back later this morning. UPDATED X2
Feeling slightly under the weather. But back mid morning with more on the choice of a new...