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December 31, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 3: the Myth of the Model Inmate

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

The Menendez Brothers, Part 2: How discipline plays an outsized role in CA parole decisions

December 30, 2025
Prison Policy

What the Menendez Brothers Parole hearings tell us about prison discipline, Part 1

December 29, 2025
#NoSafePlace

Is LA County’s women’s jail still an unsafe place for women to be? A new lawsuit says YES

December 28, 2025
#Oversight

LASD Oversight Part 3: LA County’s Inspector General has announced his retirement. But he has a lot more to tell us re: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department,

December 17, 2025
Los Angeles Times • Media

LA Times Kitty – The Sequel

September 25, 2008
5 Comments

No, fortunately, to my knowledge there are no additional cats featured on the front page of the LA...

Bailout • Economy

BAILOUT Part 2: GO MARCIE! (What She Said) – UPDATED

September 24, 2008
25 Comments

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Economy • Media • National Issues • National Politics

THE BAIL OUT: NEW RULES

September 24, 2008
8 Comments

I long to get back to discussing Los Angeles issues, but right now I don’t think we have the...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Supreme Court

UPDATE: Supreme Court Issues Stay for Troy Davis

September 23, 2008
5 Comments

3 p.m. Here’s what SCOTUS BLOG put up a few minutes ago: The Supreme Court blocked the...

Los Angeles Times • Media

The LA Times Has….um… Image Issues – UPDATED

September 23, 2008
23 Comments

Look, I like cute cat and dog photos as much as the next person. (Actually, to be honest, I...

Criminal Justice • Supreme Court

Is Georgia About to Execute an Innocent Man? – UPDATED

September 23, 2008
15 Comments

Unless the US Supreme court intervenes today, Troy Anthony Davis will be executed at 7 p.m...

Economy • Elections '08 • Presidential Race

MORNING MUST READS: BAILING AND B.S. – UPADATED

September 22, 2008
6 Comments

While there are interesting things to read on other subjects, this morning it was a tad difficult...

American Artists • Writers and Writing

James Crumley: 1939 – 2008 – The Outlaw Rides Away

September 21, 2008
4 Comments

“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

Promotion, Alaskan Style?

September 19, 2008
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Elections '08

Sandra On Fire – LIVE!

September 19, 2008
8 Comments

Sandra Tsing Loh has a new book out—Mother on Fire—about her adventures in the public...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • LAPD • Presidential Race • The Shooting

The Shooting

September 18, 2008
30 Comments

NOTE: The story below is the beginning of a tale that will run as a...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

“Bless Her Heart!”

September 18, 2008
1 Comment

Okay, not to be mean, but…. (which is what my East LA friend, Pam, always says right before...

Economy • State Government • State Politics

The Great Sacramento Budget Wars….Get Worse

September 17, 2008
6 Comments

Oh, it’s going to be a fun month. First, anyone who opened up their statement this week...

Environment • Native American

Saving San Onofre

September 17, 2008
1 Comment

Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Transportation Corridor Agency and a very long list of California...

Elections '08 • Presidential Race

OOOPS.

September 16, 2008
5 Comments

For one incautious millisecond this morning in an interview with St. Louis KTRS Radio, prominent...

LAPD

May Day Melee…..Accountability?

September 16, 2008
3 Comments

THE OTHER SHOE DROPS FOR MAY DAY While the LAPD has yet to actually release the details the Daily...

Education • Elections '08 • Presidential Race

It’s Education, Stupid (plus a few other things, like the Economy)

September 16, 2008
11 Comments

Okay, admittedly the main issue is for voters right now is ….you know….the fact that...

Elections '08 • FBI • Immigration & Justice • Law Enforcement • National Politics • Presidential Race

MORNING MUST READS: PALIN & CHENEY

September 15, 2008
40 Comments

In addition to the TRULY HIDEOUS AND INCREDIBLY UNNERVING financial news (with more yet to come)...

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