name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> It didn’t seem as if she could ever die. A...
Gloria Romero Wants to Become CA’s Edu-Queen
State Senator Gloria Romero has been the best and smartest lawmaker on criminal justice issues, but...
Fabian Nunez’s Kid Arrested for Murder
It’s the second worst thing that can happen to a parent. The very worst thing happened to the...
My Space Suicide Verdict: Right or Wrong?
About the mother who participated in the MySpace bullying ruse that drove a teenage girl to...
Dean Ernie Goes to Washington
Those of us who teach journalism at USC , if we checked our email last night, found the following...
Prison Glass: Part 2
Okay, now you’ve really, really got to read it. When I should have been working on something...
SHORT-SHORTS
1. AN INTERROGATOR SPEAKS I’m late in posting this (meant to do it yesterday) but if you...
City Leaders Want Admiral Brewer OUT of LAUSD
In today’s LA Times, Howard Blume and Jason Song outline some of the pros and cons regarding...
Locke High School: Competence Matters
Three months into the Locke/Green Dot charter transformation, an editorial in this morning’s...
Prison Glass…..and Old Fashioned Storytelling
Be sure to read the first of the three part series that began in Sunday’s LA Times about the...
Dear County Sups: Just….Do…..SOMETHING! (Soon, Please.)
There was a time when it seemed that So Cal’s best bet for a forward thinking and...
MUMBAI ONLINE: the Eyes and Ears for Millions
Although I am still in the midst of a Tryptophanic haze, I want to again link to some of the...
Happy Thanksgiving
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> For some reason this song always seems right on Thanksgiving. ...
Mumbai and the Rise of Social Network-Driven Citizen Media
While the cable television networks, radio and newspapers struggled to stay on top of the fast...
MOCA and HOMEBOY: LA Treasures at Risk
Last week, the LA Times ran a big story about the financial troubles being faced by LA’s...
2000 Days and the Perversion of American Ideals
Today the Surpreme Court will decide whether of not to hear the case of Ali Marri, who has spent...
The Anna Politkovskaya Murder Trial
The LA Times has a welcome editorial that calls for openness and transparency in the trial of three...
LA County Kids’ Scorecard
CHILDREN NOW, a national nonprofit that monitors the wellbeing of American children, has just...