Another of the talented LA Weekly writers who’ve migrated elsewhere in the past year is...
The Economy and Hurting LA Kids
Yesterday, LA County health officials issued an annual report showing that the number of reported...
Prison Nation or Rogue State???
One more primary election down. Five thousand four hundred seventy eight to go. (Or at least...
LA & GANG Intervention: Finding What Works
When the LA Times snatched David Zahniser from the LA Weekly last summer, it was a very, very smart...
Should Cops Be La Migra? – UPDATE
If my schedule will cooperate, I’m going to try to sort through the various views of Special...
War’s Message Machine
This weekend’s Must Read Story Award goes to……. ….The piece on the cover of...
Springsteen…..Wrong for America.
I’m running out so am just posting fast, but if you haven’t seen this, it’s...
Hillary Clinton Slams the Democratic Activists
One of the genuine joys of the crazed, often incredibly petty and seemingly unending election...
We Warned You and Now….WE Get to Pay
The Feds have been telling California over and over to fix it’s prison healthcare...
Janice Hahn Makes a Promise
After watching a shockingly hideous Democratic debate last night (What is wrong< with Charles...
Supremes Say Yes (Sort of) to Legal Injection
Today, the US Supreme Court voted in the much-watched case of Baze v. Reese that lethal injection...
The Boss and Barack
As WLA commenter Reg has pointed out, today Bruce Springsteen has declared his support of Barack...
Chatting Bloggers on the Radio
It appears that, barring acts of God and the like, yesterday’s bumped Warren Olney show Which...
Special Order 40: Truth & Consequences
We’ve now seen more than a week’s worth of politically charged emotional fiction...
Antonio, Gangs and the State of the City
NOTE: I’LL BE DISCUSSING ALL THIS along with Gang Czar Jeff Carr and some others on Warren...
Angry White People….Hillary’s Hypocrisy….and the Press
Yes, yes, we all know I’m an Obama supporter, but this sort of thing drives me nuts: In the...
AV and the State of the City – UPDATED
At his 2006 State of the City address, Antonio Villaraigosa officially announced that he was going...
The Sad Path to Bad Law
This is how it always happens. There is a high profile killing of a kid whose death breaks our...