Don’t miss Steve Lopez’s column today on the changes at Locke High School. This is...
Can the LA Times Book Review Be Saved?
With the scheduled July 27 demise of the Sunday LA Times Book Review looming ever closer, this past...
The LAPD Wants to Try “Soft” Discipline – UPDATED
UPDATE: Bratton got what he asked for. The police commission approved the new proposal that will...
School Desegregation: Is Class is the New Race?
Last June, 53 years after Brown v. the Board of Education, the Supreme Court declared that the...
It’s Sam Zell’s World: We Just Live Here
I opened my LA Times fearfully Sunday morning—which is not a relaxing way to approach...
LAUSD V. Charters: The World According to Julie K
Just after the new school drop out figures were released on Wednesday, the Daily News ran an Op Ed...
Deputy Chief Charlie Beck ….REDUX
In this morning’s LA Times, Joel Rubin reported what we reported a week ago, namely Deputy...
My Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless. Part VI
As the homeless capital of America, Los Angeles County has 73,000 homeless men and women; 10,000...
Drop In, Drop Out
On Wednesday, the state released its newly compiled dropout statistics, gathered using a new...
California’s $252,000 Kids
Before you read this, please sit down and do not consume any kind of food or beverage that might...
The LA Times: “Rightsizing” the Public Trust
The mood among my friends at the LA Times is bleak and growing bleaker. Some buyout/firing notices...
It’s the Recidivism Rate, Stupid!
THE BEST SUNDAY READ REPORT When a man (or a woman) is paroled from a California state prison, he...
And While We’re On the Subject of Crime and Sensible Behavior…
….be sure to read Rob Greene’s smart unsigned editorial in Sunday’s LA Times...
Changing the World……70 Blocks at a Time
While bad news is never difficult to find, I can tell you exactly where to go tonight for a dose of...
The LA Times: Dulling the Edge of our Fright – UPDATED X 2
The past ten days has produced a dank flurry of ever more disheartening LA Times/Sam Zell news. ...
My Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part V
NOTE: This is part of a continuing series on long-time WitnessLA commenter, Richard LoCicero...
MLK-Harbor Hospital—the Enabling Continues
Let us get one thing straight at the outset of this conversation: Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor is...
ON BEING BLUE: A Cop Talks About Cops – Part II
Deputy Chief Charles Beck is the head of LAPD’s Detective Bureau. That means when the story...