NOTE: FOR UPDATES, scroll down My friend, Alex Sanchez, the executive director of Homies Unidos...
Forgive Them, William Osborne
No saint, but where’s the harm in a DNA test? Anyone with a trace of commonsense and...
Blog Weirdness…. All is Fixed
For those of you who might have had the unfortunate experience of logging into WitnessLA today...
Calling on Arianna and Co. to Do Their Part for California
Where’s Sacramento? Who cares? You’d find better ideas for solving the budget mess on...
JPL Scientists Haven’t Landed a Lasting Victory
Kozinski’s questions aren’t going away The feds’, in their anti-terror fervor...
A Deal Any Chief Could Endorse
The rowdy Lakers fans who rampaged through the streets around Staples Center on Sunday night...
Til Cowardly Ruling Do We Part
Should voters toss the chief justice in 2010? It doesn’t take a legal scholar to point out...
Driven (Partly) Sane by Congestion Pricing
Ugly Secret: They never were free If it were up to me, trucks and solo drivers would be banned from...
The Bad News & the Good News
The bad news (for me) is that I’m stuck at the Detroit airport (Don’t ask. Suffice it...
As Layoffs Loom, the Power of Kids and Written Words Bloom
The hunger-striking LAUSD teachers are in their second week. They still hope to shame or persuade...
KRXQ Gets the Message—After Sponsors Pull Support
Complaints poured in to KRXQ, after radio hosts for the Sacramento-based radio station, Arnie...
Jon Stewart on the Media (and Stephen Colbert in Iraq)
These clips from the Daily Show need little comment. The first one is from June 3, the second two...
Social Justice Shorts
GO, LAKERS!!! (Okay. Now down to...
Dear DOJ, We Want Our Police Department Back
It has been over eight years since the Department of Justice forced talked the Los Angeles Police...
Did KRXQ Radio Jocks Advocate Verbal Abuse of Transgender Children?
According to Sacramento’s KRXQ radio hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, if you have a...
Homeboy Poets and the Healing Power of Words
If in midst of our collective budget horrors— and this weird season of soon-to-be...
State Parks, Summer School….and Inflammatory Rhetoric
FISCAL BLOWBACK: BEFORE SHUTTING STATE PARKS….PLEASE DO THE MATH There were committee...
Chatting With the City Attorney-Elect
This weekend I had a short but interesting chat with our soon-to-be City Attorney, Carmen...