As newspapers continue to ax more reporters, producing ever larger gaps in local news coverage, ...
Could There Really Be a Green Dot America?
The May 11 New Yorker Magazine has a profile of Steve Barr and his Green Dot Charter...
The Impossibility of Firing Lousy Schoolteachers – UPDATED
In case you missed it, yesterday’s LA Times had an excellent article written by Jason Song...
Swine Flu Emergency in California Prisons???! (Or Maybe Not.)
Yesterday, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced they they were...
RAPE, TORTURE…AND ISOLATION
I’m neck deep in writing and student paper correcting, but here are some quick things to draw...
“They Tormented a Clerk” – UPDATED
If you read between the lines of Barack Obama’s answer to Jake Tapper’s question about...
Scenes From Saturday Night With Homeboy Industries
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Jerry Gets Jacked (But Has A Soundtrack For It.)
Even though he’s California’s “top cop,” Attorney General Jerry Brown got...
Cliff May, Jon Stewart & Torture
Part 1 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt...
Seattle Blogger Wins $225K over Public Records Lagging
The AP reports that King County, Washington has agreed to pay conservative blogger Stefan...
9th Circuit Tells DOJ “Secrets” Claim Not Good Enough
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> On Monday, the California-located U.S. Ninth Circuit Court...
Social Justice Shorts
THE LA TIMES PULLS PLUG ON PRINTING THE NATION’S BIGGEST NON-PROFIT TEEN NEWSPAPER LA...
THE FUTURE OF MEDIA: LA Times Book Fest Version
In the middle of the panel called MEDIA: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE at Sunday’s LA Times...
Electricity Down Leads to Blogging Pause
No, I’m not kidding. The neighbors’ tree took out the power line. Ah, Topanga! There...
LA Times Festival of Books Weekend!
I realize that some people who live in the greater LA area think it’s just fine to do things...
Jerry Brown Sues Badly Behaving Banks for $1.5
Okay here’s the full story I mentioned earlier in brief. California Attorney General Jerry...
Maybe “National Crack the Crack Day” Instead?
Okay, yes, yesterday was Earth Day. But I’m sure you’ll be happy to know, that today...
Lies About Torture: Abu Zubaydah’s Interrogator Breaks Silence
Ali Soufan was an FBI supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005 and, together with another FBI...