"I am proud and honored that Melanie chose me and my family to continue the great legacy of the Watts Times, its founders and her parents. We thank and applaud her for the great work she has done in making this newspaper one of Black L.A.'s finest."The Sentinel bills itself as the largest and most influential African-American newspaper in the Western United States.The LA Watts Times calls itself the most widely distributed African-American newspaper in Los Angeles.
At a time when many public broadcasters are financially strapped -- reliant on shrinking government funds, meager college support, and subscription drives dreaded by listeners -- KPCC has thrived by tapping a board willing to write big checks and hit up their rich friends for contributions. Taking the lead are Gordon Crawford, managing director of the Capital Group, the Los Angeles investment fund manager, and Jarl Mohn, who built E! Entertainment Television.
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In the last 10 years, KPCC has won more than 230 regional and national journalism awards, and grown from a weekly audience of about 200,000 to nearly 600,000, second in size only to WNYC-FM in New York among news and information public radio stations and consistently ahead of KCRW-FM locally. (Classical music programmer KUSC-FM is the top rated public radio station in Southern California.)
SCPR has about 30 reporters, with bureaus in L.A., Orange County, the Inland Empire and Washington. (Times columnists Patt Morrison and David Lazarus and other staff members are frequent contributors to KPCC programming. Times reporters and editors appeared on KPCC programs about 150 times in 2009.)
"McKay reasoned that if pupils could say no to cussing it would be easier to stay away from drugs, violence and pornography, and to turn their focus to positive aspirations and goals," the Assembly proposal reads.
The Station Fire, which grew to about 35,000 acres overnight, continues to spread toward Acton where evacuations have been ordered. On its other end, the fire threatens the Mt. Wilson Observatory above Pasadena.
Over the objections of the Pasadena city attorney and Pasadena police chief, Superior Court Judge David Yaffe ruled Thursday that the names of the two Pasadena police officers who shot and killed a man must be kept confidential. The police officers' union filed the lawsuit to prevent the names from being disclosed.Richard Shinee, an attorney for the union, said that the officers' privacy rights should take priority.The Los Angeles Times, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the city of Pasadena argued that the names should be made public.
"The safety of the officers always outweighs the need of the public," he said, adding that the public's interest in such matters was "idle curiosity, as far as I'm concerned."
"That anyone in a position of authority can kill someone and have their identity kept secret is fundamentally inconsistent with our notion of democratic government," attorney Kelli Sager said after the hearing.Pasadena Star-News
New Mexico Gov. and Pasadena native Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name from consideration to become Commerce secretary, citing an ongoing investigation into alleged "pay to play" funny business in the awarding state contracts.
America has become more a debt ' junkie'than ever before with total debt of $53 Trillion- and the highest debt ratio in history. That's $175,154 per man, woman and child - or $700,616 per family of 4, $33,781 more debt per family than last year.
It’s not easy being a visionary, he said: “I have essentially been five years ahead of the world for a long time, and that’s a horrible address at which to live because people look at you, you know, like you’re nuts.”*UPDATED: (Via LA Observed) Macpherson blogs about his system of using nonprofessional sources to gather video and audio so that it can be used by reporters in India to write a story under the direction of a trained editor. The whole thing reads like a long rationalization: If one experienced editor oversees an operation, it doesn't matter how untrained or distant the newsgatherers might be. Indeed, if you set the standards low enough, most anything is possible.
Take out a quill -- the kind Thomas Jefferson used to pen the Declaration of Independence -- and declare this:Sure nothing is likely to happen, but that shouldn't stop us from speculating.
President-elect Barack Obama will solve the Middle East crisis before he solves the Bowl Championship Series.
He'll get the polar ice caps to stop melting before he gets "sensible" people to come to a college football consensus.
gary, indeed such an obamaorama of a solution to the mighty woes of the ncaa gridironers would mean an end to the messy but lucrative bcs. but wouldn't it then create a neat and also very lucrative series of playoff games which historic and large stadiums such as the [Rose Bowl] would bid for -- and wouldn't the bowl be the likely place for western regional games? and then every five years it would still likely host the final national championship as well. so i say this is obama's way of repaying his pasadena debt. lwWhile the BCS already rotates the "championship" game in this way, the Rose Bowl would have to give up the Pac-10/Big Ten match-up under the playoff scheme. Would a regional playoff game attract the same level of excitement as a traditional rivalry? Is the Tournament of Roses ready to embrace a more egalitarian system? Wouldn't the Coliseum make a play for the playoff action?
For one thing, the Pac 10 and Big 10 don't want to further diminish the Rose Bowl game, which would undoubtedly happen in a playoff scenario.Bob did some consulting work for the Rose Bowl and has a severe addiction to UCLA home games. His column on the Obama plan, the BCS and ESPN dominance of college football is scheduled to run in Friday's paper.
Second, there's too much money to be made under the current arrangement. Dump the bowl games and you're dumping the cash.
What must the White Suiters be thinking this morning?That would be three rounds to determine a national champion. It would add three extra weeks to the season. You could trim back on the regular season. I don't know any serious fan of college football who has disagreed with me on this.This would mean an end to the messy but lucrative Bowl Championship Series at a time when the Rose Bowl needs to invest in major renovations. Even more, it could further diminish the grandeur of the Rose Bowl Game - the Grandaddy of Them All.
While dozens of lenders have gone out of business during that time, IndyMac is one of the few federally insured banks to fail. Banking regulators are bracing for a slew of failures over the next year, bulking up their staff of bank examiners and taking an increasingly tough approach toward banks that are seen as risky.
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