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November 12, 2007

Following a flap from an LA Times article that found 60,000 LAUSD students attend school within 500 feet of a freeway, the school district is looking into ways it can reduce the health hazards for kids close to pollution-filled freeways. Maybe the school district can use the $53 million in funds they're trying to recoup to build domes over playgrounds. Thousands of birds and an immeasurable amount of fish have died as a result......

Continue Reading "Extra, Extra: Bunny Ears, Blazes and Blair"

August 14, 2007

Hell, this may be illegal, but if the LA River plan is going to crawl upstream at a snail's pace, screw it -- the time to play is now! Not when we're 75 years of age. We caught this father/son urban adventure duo in Sherman Oaks paddling downstream towards Studio City. "Is this a tradition?" we screamed down. "Nope, it's our first time," the dad yelled back. We asked how he came up with......

Continue Reading "Kayaking in the LA River"

April 19, 2005

The salacious story of frat-boy hazing that resulted in the death of Matthew Carrington run by the LA Times on March 29 was too good to be true. After printing some corrections in late March, today the Times' California section includes an editors note with detailed corrections and notice of the firing of reporter Eric Slater. But close examination shows the Times may have been working out fears of their own Jayson Blair, rather......

Continue Reading "Standing in the shadows of Jayson Blair"

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