This morning the Los Angeles Unified school board will vote on Locke High School’s petition...
The Murder, the Homeboy….and the Redemption
THERE’S A LOT of interesting news coming up this week. On Tuesday the LAUSD school board...
Back to School: Congress (Finally) Does Something Right
It’s the biggest financial aide package since the GI Bill. In case you some how missed the...
Sex Offenders and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Remember the story of those Florida sex offenders living under a bridge because, under the law...
More Classes, Fewer Cells – UPDATED
Finally back in LA. More blogging (and more Voices from the Road) later today. In the...
Voices from the Road – Part V
Today’s Voices from the Road group includes a war wounded ex-Green Beret, a coffee shop...
Voices from the Road – IV
All the people in this group were accosted during day trips from West Glacier. They include a...
Contemplating Texas Killing Texans
On Sunday, the Dallas Morning News opened its editorial with this sentence: “Texas’...
The Regulators???
Okay, this may be perfectly innocent but....to have a clique within the LA County Sheriff’s...
A Tale of Vanishing Glaciers
Boulder Glacier – then and now I’ve been coming to Glacier National Park all my life. ...
Happy Labor Day
I’m still up in Montana (took a couple of extra days). Am about to leave for a hike up to a...
Semi-Disappearing Act
For some reason I can never resist this one particular view of Lake McDonald in Glacier National...
Katrina – The Tin Roof Blowdown
Here we are at the second anniversary of the devastation—natural and man-made—of the...
Locke Step….Forward!
Well, they voted….and the Steve Barr/Green Dot/Locke charter contingent won, at least this...
Locke High School: Return of the Jedi?
Tuesday (today, by the time most of you read this) is the day that the LAUSD board will decide...
Our Battle-weary Children
WitnessLA commenter, Poplock, said something interesting and unsettling in an earlier thread about...
Voices From the Road III
Curious horses on Interstate 90 past Gold Creek, MT, where I stopped because the dog was stir...
The Battle for Santee High School – The District Reacts – UPDATED
The LA Weekly version of the story I first reported here about the battle going on at Santee...