Ah, we can all be so proud of ourselves now. Got her! We have arrested Elvira Arellano. She was...
San Quentin Inmates Saving Themselves (& Maybe Others)
Seventy percent of all of the 2 million inmates in American prisons are doing time for drug and...
Calling All WLA Commenters….Ideas and Suggestions Needed!
Logan Pass in Glacier Park, MT Next week I’m headed out on a road trip, eventually ending up...
Remaking the Schools (Let me! No, let me!)
Okay, we’ve got the mayor and his possible school cluster takeover and transformation. And we...
Fox + Henhouse = Tragedy
I am posting clips from this this Huffington Post article without much additional comment. The...
LIAM RECTOR: 1949-2007 – Always Be Closing
Late Wednesday night I heard that the poet, Liam Rector, killed himself earlier in the day. He...
MLK Redux
My full column for the LA Weekly on last Friday’s closure of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor...
When ‘Gators Escape!!!!!
Okay, yes, granted, I should be writing about something entirely different right now (and if my...
Why the Feds Killed King-Harbor Hospital
I’ll post more on this tomorrow when my very quick and dirty MLK-Harbor postmortem goes up...
The Santee Revolt: Escalation – UPDATED
As I wrote yesterday, last week, parents and students demonstrated at Santee Education Complex...
Santee High School ….and the War of the Smart Kids
IN THE BEGINNING, South LA-located Santee Education Complex was going to be the new high school...
KIDS Find Right Answers for LAUSD…
…NOW IF ONLY THE ADULTS IN CHARGE WILL LISTEN. Here’s the deal: A group of teenagers ...
The Feds Pull the Plug on MLK – UPDATED
Federal inspectors announced today that they are pulling the plug on $200 million in federal...
“It’s Not Fair. It’s Not Working” – Crack Cocaine V. Blow
NOTE: I’m off working on a nice, juicy school scandal story that I’ll preview for you...
The True Face of Evil – Meeting the Newark Monsters – UPDATE
The four victims – L to R: Lofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey, Terrance Aeriel, and Natasha...
Pedro Guzman Returns (No Thanks to the U.S. Government) – UPDATED
Pedro Guzman, the 29-year-old developmentally disabled man—and U.S. citizen— who was...
The Murderous Seasons of Newark, Oakland…and Los Angeles
All four were bright and shining kids, all attending (or about to attend) the same college, all...
LAUSD….If You Can’t Fix It, Feature It
Today the LA Times has a story about an LAUSD teacher who got so fed up with the district that...