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This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
#Documented/Undocumented • #ProtectingDueProcess

Mayor Bass & a list of mayors of So Cal cities join in federal civil rights lawsuit against Trump’s militarization of immigration

July 9, 2025
Civil Liberties

May your 4th of July weekend be a safe one, and may you find joy in these strange times.

July 4, 2025
American Artists • Los Angeles Times • Writers and Writing

High on Books – UPDATED

April 27, 2008
18 Comments

***************************************************************** UPDATE: For those of you who...

Elections '08 • Media • Presidential Race

End Game

April 25, 2008
26 Comments

name="wmode" value="transparent"/> So who’s right? And what does it mean? Maureen Dowd says...

Literature & Justice • Los Angeles Times • Los Angeles Writers

El Lay Celebrates Books – And LA Writers Do Radio

April 25, 2008
2 Comments

OKAY, FIRST THE BOOKS: The LA Times Festival of Books takes over the UCLA campus this weekend. All...

Crime and Punishment • Journalism • Media • War on Drugs

The *Real* Wire: Life Imitates Art in Baltimore’s Shadow World

April 24, 2008
2 Comments

Another of the talented LA Weekly writers who’ve migrated elsewhere in the past year is...

Los Angeles County • Public Health

The Economy and Hurting LA Kids

April 23, 2008
3 Comments

Yesterday, LA County health officials issued an annual report showing that the number of reported...

Prison • Prison Policy

Prison Nation or Rogue State???

April 23, 2008
11 Comments

One more primary election down. Five thousand four hundred seventy eight to go. (Or at least...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs • LA City Council

LA & GANG Intervention: Finding What Works

April 22, 2008
12 Comments

When the LA Times snatched David Zahniser from the LA Weekly last summer, it was a very, very smart...

Bill Bratton • City Government • Gangs • Immigration & Justice • LA City Council • LA County Jail • LAPD • Law Enforcement

Should Cops Be La Migra? – UPDATE

April 21, 2008
15 Comments

If my schedule will cooperate, I’m going to try to sort through the various views of Special...

Media • National Politics • War

War’s Message Machine

April 21, 2008
26 Comments

This weekend’s Must Read Story Award goes to……. ….The piece on the cover of...

Elections • Elections '08 • Presidential Race • Springsteen

Springsteen…..Wrong for America.

April 20, 2008
4 Comments

I’m running out so am just posting fast, but if you haven’t seen this, it’s...

Elections '08 • Media • National Politics • Presidential Race

Hillary Clinton Slams the Democratic Activists

April 18, 2008
98 Comments

One of the genuine joys of the crazed, often incredibly petty and seemingly unending election...

Prison • Prison Policy • Public Health • State Government • State Politics

We Warned You and Now….WE Get to Pay

April 18, 2008
6 Comments

The Feds have been telling California over and over to fix it’s prison healthcare...

Antonio Villaraigosa • City Government • Gangs • LA City Council

Janice Hahn Makes a Promise

April 17, 2008
11 Comments

After watching a shockingly hideous Democratic debate last night (What is wrong< with Charles...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Supreme Court

Supremes Say Yes (Sort of) to Legal Injection

April 16, 2008
9 Comments

Today, the US Supreme Court voted in the much-watched case of Baze v. Reese that lethal injection...

American Artists • Elections '08 • Presidential Race • Springsteen

The Boss and Barack

April 16, 2008
7 Comments

As WLA commenter Reg has pointed out, today Bruce Springsteen has declared his support of Barack...

Media

Chatting Bloggers on the Radio

April 16, 2008
2 Comments

It appears that, barring acts of God and the like, yesterday’s bumped Warren Olney show Which...

Gangs • Immigration & Justice • LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement

Special Order 40: Truth & Consequences

April 15, 2008
8 Comments

We’ve now seen more than a week’s worth of politically charged emotional fiction...

Antonio Villaraigosa • City Government • Gangs

Antonio, Gangs and the State of the City

April 15, 2008
5 Comments

NOTE: I’LL BE DISCUSSING ALL THIS along with Gang Czar Jeff Carr and some others on Warren...

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