In the late 90’s, the Homeboy Bakery was something of a miracle. It was part of the Homeboy...
Attacking Iran
I’d been hearing for a month now that Sy Hersh had a major piece coming out in the New Yorker...
Sunday Pleasures and Must Reads – UPDATED
THINGS TO DO, READ, LISTEN TO, CONTEMPLATE….ON A SUNNY LATE SEPTEMBER SUNDAY (AND MONDAY) ...
Light Posting….
This weekend there will be light posting only as I’m running off to be on some kind of new...
Charlie Beck’s Enlightened Gang War
Los Angeles has had a big drop in murders this year. LAPD Chief Bill Bratton says that if the ...
FRIDAY’S ISSUE WATCH
Here’s a passel of updates while I work on work on another deadline. Included is the latest...
The Great Prison Book Purge – UPDATED
Earlier this month it came to light that, since June of this year, US Federal prison authorities...
LA Homeboys – Then & Now
Last night I was going through scores of old snapshots for possible use in a new edition of my gang...
The Governator Vs. the Union
In the running of California’s prisons, one would assume that the warden is pretty much the...
The Judge…and the Student…
As we think about what kind of Attorney General Judge Mukasey might make, it is worth reading...
LA’s New (Cough) Schools (Cough, Cough)
Just when I was starting to feel a teensy, weensy bit optimistic that the LAUSD board had finally...
Shocking Children
This month’s Mother Jones Magazine (Sept/Oct) features a cover story by Jennifer Gonnerman...
Streaming to JENA
They came in bus load after bus load from all the states bordering Louisiana, and from states...
The Move-On Flap: Dumb….Meet Dumber.
I really, really, REALLY don’t have time to post today as I’m neck deep in researching...
Prison Kills
In 2002, a very angry U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson ruled that health care in the...
The White Tree
Today, Americans from all over these United States will march in Jena, Louisiana, because of a...
The Legality of Dreaming
A year or so ago, when I was researching a story about low-scoring Jefferson High School, I...
Stuck on Stupid
And that’s understating the matter. The Restore Habeas measure would have passed the Senate...