On Tuesday on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan will hear the...
Prison Glass: Part 3
The third and last part of the three part series on Pam and Robert Griffin ran on Thursday...
Locke High Update 2: Joanna, Damon and Bryan
Last night on KCET’s new magazine show, SoCal Connected, ran a half hour special on the Green...
PEN USA AWARDS…. “The Test of Their Lives”
Yeah, yeah, I know. Last night was the Grammys. But, more importantly, it was also the night of the...
ODETTA
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...