What a difference a day, or two, makes.
On Monday, Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian, who also is president of the California Police Chiefs Association, said he was adamantly opposed to the Schwarzenegger administration’s plan to reduce the prison population by 27,000 — a plan that still threatens the entire budget package agreed to by the [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2009’
The Politics of Prisons
The Urgency of Local Reporting
Eric Alterman, who typically writes a media column for The Nation magazine makes the most compelling case for local and regional reporting I have seen in this article for the Center for American Progress.
And on his list of notable reports should be the remarkable investigative project on the unconscionable delays in investigating complaints regarding nursing [...]
A New Twist in Non-Profit Journalism
San Diego continues to reinforce its status as a leading force in news innovation.
Platinum Equity, the equity firm that bought the San Diego Union Tribune last month, is funding an investigative reporting initiative, The Watchdog Institute. The non-profit inititative will be run by none other than Lori Hearn, who until this week as senior [...]
