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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
American Voices • Life and Life Only • National Politics

Voices from the Road – Part V

September 6, 2007
17 Comments

Today’s Voices from the Road group includes a war wounded ex-Green Beret, a coffee shop...

American Voices • Life and Life Only • National Politics

Voices from the Road – IV

September 5, 2007
8 Comments

All the people in this group were accosted during day trips from West Glacier. They include a...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty

Contemplating Texas Killing Texans

September 5, 2007
4 Comments

On Sunday, the Dallas Morning News opened its editorial with this sentence: “Texas’...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

The Regulators???

September 5, 2007
10 Comments

Okay, this may be perfectly innocent but....to have a clique within the LA County Sheriff’s...

Environment • Life and Life Only

A Tale of Vanishing Glaciers

September 4, 2007
16 Comments

Boulder Glacier – then and now I’ve been coming to Glacier National Park all my life. ...

Life and Life Only • Unions

Happy Labor Day

September 3, 2007
11 Comments

I’m still up in Montana (took a couple of extra days). Am about to leave for a hike up to a...

Bears and Alligators • Life and Life Only

Semi-Disappearing Act

August 29, 2007
33 Comments

For some reason I can never resist this one particular view of Lake McDonald in Glacier National...

Life and Life Only • Literature & Justice • National Politics

Katrina – The Tin Roof Blowdown

August 29, 2007
8 Comments

Here we are at the second anniversary of the devastation—natural and man-made—of the...

Education • Green Dot • LAUSD

Locke Step….Forward!

August 28, 2007
9 Comments

Well, they voted….and the Steve Barr/Green Dot/Locke charter contingent won, at least this...

Education • Green Dot • LAUSD

Locke High School: Return of the Jedi?

August 27, 2007
13 Comments

Tuesday (today, by the time most of you read this) is the day that the LAUSD board will decide...

Education • Gangs • LAUSD

Our Battle-weary Children

August 26, 2007
24 Comments

WitnessLA commenter, Poplock, said something interesting and unsettling in an earlier thread about...

American Voices • National Politics

Voices From the Road III

August 25, 2007
25 Comments

Curious horses on Interstate 90 past Gold Creek, MT, where I stopped because the dog was stir...

Education • Green Dot • LAUSD • Unions

The Battle for Santee High School – The District Reacts – UPDATED

August 24, 2007
22 Comments

The LA Weekly version of the story I first reported here about the battle going on at Santee...

American Voices • National Politics

Voices From the Road – II

August 24, 2007
12 Comments

Finally, the next batch of voices. I spoke with the people below on the route between Cedar City...

Life and Life Only

More Voices Coming very Shortly – UPDATED

August 23, 2007
8 Comments

In just a while this morning I’ll have a post up—including more more voices from the...

Crime and Punishment • Gangs • Media

The Newark Murders and the Myth of MS-13

August 22, 2007
29 Comments

In my utterly sleep-deprived, road-addled state, I was scheduled this morning to be interviewed for...

American Voices • National Politics

Voices From the Road – I

August 22, 2007
16 Comments

As most of you know, I’m on a road trip and so am using this as an excuse to gather snap...

Crime and Punishment • Life and Life Only

See You From the Road!

August 21, 2007
12 Comments

(and, no, this is not meant to be me) I appreciate all the great questions commenters have put...

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