The deaths of two homeless people as temperatures dropped into the 30s expedite ongoing efforts to improve services and care for a vulnerable segment of the community.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-homeless-cold-20130120,0,243727.story
One of the lasting effects of the Great Recession has been the economic spiral downward of the American middle class, and no group has been harder hit than the boomer generation, men and women in the prime of their working lives.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/booming/set-for-life-documents-crisis-among-baby-boomers.html?src=rechp
Doctors have long believed that disabling autistic disorders last a lifetime, but a new study has found that some children who exhibit signature symptoms of the disorder recover completely.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/health/some-with-autism-diagnosis-can-recover-study-finds.html?ref=health
ess than three months after the Justice Department sued Meridian, Miss., after finding that school students there were routinely arrested without probable cause, a report by a group of civil rights organizations says that “overly harsh school disciplinary policies” are common throughout the state.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/education/report-criticizes-school-discipline-measures-used-in-mississippi.html?ref=education
Some young disabled athletes are having their own Oscar Pistorius moments — not by breaking barriers in the Olympics, but by battling sports officials over whether and how they should be accommodated in competitions with able-bodied athletes.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/sports/disabled-athletes-suit-up-raising-questions-of-logistics-and-fairness.html?ref=education
Binh Van Nguyen’s family says he was startled from sleep by officers who weren’t in uniform, and that he couldn’t have gunned his car at them because of how it was parked.
Read more in the Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-father-shot-20130116,0,4520765.story
CAIRO — Nearly three years ago, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood delivered a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists. In a television interview around that time, the same leader described Zionists as “these bloodsuckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendants of apes
SUNLAND-TUJUNGA – Sometimes while driving around his district, Los Angeles City Councilman Richard Alarcón will spot his son on the street, scrounging for food around a Del Taco restaurant.
Read more in the Daily News: http://www.dailynews.com/ci_22373843/councilman-richard-alarc-243-n-helps-launch-new
IT is just a metal door with three windows, the kind meant to keep the clamor of an elementary school hallway from piercing a classroom’s quiet. Other than paint the color of bubble gum, it is unremarkable.
Read more in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/education/in-one-school-students-are-divided-by-gifted-label-and-race.html?ref=education
In sports like professional football, gay athletes may have good reason to keep their sexual orientation to themselves.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-davis-gay-athletes-20130113,0,5187719.story