Today's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery is a risk, but a risk worth taking, says NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin, who will not be on board.
:: He was pretty controversial -- but he got the Wildcats to three bowl games during his tenue, a once unheard-of proposition. Randy Walker, coach of my alma mater Northwestern's football team, died Thursday night of a heart attack. He was 52.
:: Will this be the catalyst that finally sparks city-wide outrage over the ongoing violence in South Los Angeles? Sadly, probably not. But it should. Three people killed, including a 7-year-old boy, after a man opens fire on them in front of a house.
:: As downtown's Hall of Justice sits in ruin -- as it has for the past 12 years -- the finger-pointing continues over who has bungled the so-far failed attempts at restoration. The building has sat empty since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and now the county is in danger of losing $12 million in FEMA funds.
Eric at blogdowntown notices a bit of info in a Metropolitan News-Enterprise story: That an " inspection in 1998 showed that the closing of the building was in error--that the damage was merely cosmetic." Whoa-- if that's the case, that is a huge blunder.
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