JERRY BROWN SUES A BAD BANK 4 DOING BAD THINGS Attorney General Edmund G. Brown, Jr. will hold a...
DANGEROUS JAILS – PART 3: Common Sense Wanted
Last week I got a call from an inmate who is presently incarcerated at Men’s Central...
DCFS….Dangerous 2 Kids?
The LA Times reports today that records acquired by reporters Garrett Therolf and Kim Christensen...
Federal Judge Tells FBI to Fork Over Files on Local Muslim Groups
Monday afternoon, federal judge Cormac J. Carney decided he had completely had enough with the...
LA Times 2008 Pulitzer Picks and Other Worthy Winners
LA Times reporters Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart won a well-deserved Pulitzer for their excellent...
Social Justice Shorts
THE SUPREMES, THE SCHOOL, THE STRIP SEARCH AND THE TEENAGER On Tuesday the US Supreme Court will...
Gay Marriage as a Wedge Issue: Bigotry Hits a Tipping Point
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The...
FUTURE OF JOURNALISM: Where Blogs Get Their Links
Yesterday, the Daily Kos put up a fascinating bit of data collection that quantified where their...
DANGEROUS JAILS – PART 2: The Death of the Mamma’s Boy
NOTE: 2ND OF 2 PARTS. READ PART 1...
The Bomb Inside the State of the City Speech
Embedded in the middle of the mayor’s S.O.C. speech, there was one innocent sounding...
DANGEROUS JAILS – PART 1: Should We Close CJ?
On March 30, a 22-year-old man named John Horton was found hanging from a noose in his cell in...
The Mayor’s State of the City Speech – The Education Take
Okay, he gave it. It was pretty good. Antonio can be quite moving when he puts in the effort. ...
Social Justice Shorts
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> WHAT IS BERNIE PARKS THINKING??? City Council Member Bernard...
Is LAUSD’s Cortines in Favor of Criminalizing Kids for Sexting?
So it seems. LAUSD Superintendent Ray Cortines thinks that school kids caught...
May It Be Good
The now traditional floating bunny. xo: C.
Social Justice Shorts
TIME MAGAZINE TELLS CRITICS OF LA TIMES FRONT PAGE ADVER-NEWSI-TISEMENT TO GET A GRIP James...
LAUSD’s Biggest Public Works Project in U.S. History?
During this season of fiscal blood-letting and drastic budget slashing, KCET’s SoCal...
2 Dead Teenagers…USC Reporters Insist the Murders Matter
At around 3:30 in the afternoon on March 13, two Franklin High School students—a 15 and a 16...