A pile of stories were hastily reported and written yesterday about Guillermo Cespedes and his...
Los Angeles Gets a New Gang Czar
At a press conference this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce his choice for a new...
Prisons and Torching Money
Playing catch up from the three day weekend, here are three pieces about the ongoing prison...
Moyers 2 Obama: Remind Us of Our Greatness as a Democracy
“This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it’s life and...
WLA’s Last-Gasp-of-Summer Reading List
These are sobering times. The Station fire, the largest fire in LA County history, has been deemed...
Luis Rodriguez on Tagging and Trutanich
Novelist, poet, memoirist, teacher, advocate Luis Rodriguez writes about City Attorney Carmen...
The Willingham Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
In December 21, 1991. the house that Cameron Todd Willingham shared with his wife and his three...
Police Commission Wants Your Input Re: Picking a New Chief
The Los Angeles Police Commission will hold a series of four public forums in order to get public...
Fatality at USC Radisson Hotel – UPDATED
Sometime shortly before 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, a man, approximately 30-years-old, jumped, fell, or...
Putting Civil Rights on the National Agenda Again
Monday’s NY Times had an editorial about Attorney General Eric Holder’s determination...
Prison Budget Hell: The Neverending Story
With all the fire news, there has been little or no discussion about the fact that on Monday, the...
Firefighters Arnie Quinones & Ted Hall: A Hero Story
Firefighters are, by definition, heroic. But in some cases, the heroism is more direct. We know...
Katrina, Triage & The Cost of Great Journalism
For the second week in a row, the New York Times Magazine has presented a cover story that is...
Fire Weather: Two LA County Firefighters Killed – UPDATED
UPDATE: 5:15 P.M. The word is now, according to LASD’s Steve Whitmore, that those five...
Fire Weather ’09
View on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. from Topanga Canyon Blvd. looking toward the La Canada Flintridge...
Prison Lifers Trained as Drug & Alcohol Counselors
With all the depressing news coming out of Sacramento and Washington D.C., it is great to run...
Asking the Really Tough Questions About Torture
Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture? (Favorite line: “We could use...
Gang Czar Elevated to Mayor’s Chief Of Staff
In a press release sent out late this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced that his...