Report: Associate of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher to plead guilty to sex crimes
Will Swaim and Rachel Powers are doing a fine job of covering the latest local developments in the Catholic Church’s pedophilia scandal. But in the interest of fairness, I’d like to point out that it’s not just priests who act on these illegal [...]

Six of Long Beach’s nine City Council members got out of bed early this morning to attend the Breakwater Forum, a public update and discussion of the city’s $100,000 investigation into a possible breakwater configuration. The recurring theme was a growing realization of how massive a task Long Beach is undertaking. The word “unprecedented” was used a lot.
Perhaps just [...]

Rohrabacher’s hero
Justice is usually depicted as a figure wearing a blindfold. Who else wears a blindfold? Prisoners put up against a wall to be shot. Coincidence?
The chances of any Blackwater gunman being held accountable for shooting up Iraqi civilians just went from incredibly slim to vanishingly small. The Associated Press reports:

COURTESY the EVERGREEN AVIATION MUSEUM
Tues | Jun 12 Does this sound familiar? Good-sized suburb located outside of Los Angeles struggles for identity and something that’ll draw in the out-of-towners’ dollars and comes up with a bold idea. The suburb? Garden Grove. The bold idea? Casino gambling, which has been so successful in transforming burgs like [...]

Tues | Apr 24 A lawsuit filed against the three people who tried to oust Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist from the anti-illegal immigrant organization has been dismissed at Gilchrist’s request. The dismissal apparently ends the nasty breakup of the Minuteman Project, and many are still shocked that the individuals who built an organization based [...]