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...
Budget Bloodbath: Sheila Explains It All – Part I
On Monday, higher education officials told a legislative committee that the proposed budget cuts...
Social Justice Shorts
HOMEBOY POETS TODAY! At 3 p.m. today, the UCLA School of Public Affairs’ Department of Social...
The Murder of Dr. George Tiller
Wichita, Kansas physician, Dr. George Tiller, was one of the three doctors in the U.S. who...
Dreams From the Monster Factory: Hope for America’s Prisons
The California budget cuts seem to get more draconian hourly. (Do we really think it’s a good...
California on the Chopping Block: Is There A Way Out?
Is it me? Or does Arnold Schwarzenegger sound really vengeful? I get the feeling that, after last...
Jesse James Hollywood
Nine years after the crime, on May 15, the trial finally commenced for SF valley boy and baby thug...
The Iraq War Diaspora Struggles in So Cal
“About 4 million Iraqis, forced to flee their homes after death threats and bombings, have...
Ted, David, Sheila…and Prop 8
The decision has been handed down, the protests have begun, but one surprisingly cool thing has...
Sonia Sotomayor!
AND WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT OF SUPREME COURTS… ” A rigorous intellect, a...
Prop 8: Waiting for the Supremes – THE DECISION’S IN
UPDATE: THE RULING: PROP. 8 UPHELD Very, very sad. But very expected. COUPLES EXISTING MARRIAGE...
Happy Memorial Day 2009
For our fallen sons and daughters—and for the mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children...
Is American Idol Braver Than Barack Obama?
a2 fin @ Yahoo! Video When American Idol creator, Simon Fuller, chose the song for finalist Adam...
BREAKING NEWS: STUDENT WALKOUT–SCROLL DOWN
Bill Bratton v. The LA Weekly?
Late yesterday afternoon, I got a note from a couple of staffers at the LA Weekly that read: ...