Yesterday’s LA Times has an article about the effects of police efforts to curb crime in the part of downtown known as skid row. The claim is that since last fall when LAPD increased the number of officers in the area and put an effort into reducing crime downtown the homeless in skid […]
Entries Tagged as 'class'
Musical Gentrification or Cleaning up the City One Neighborhood at a Time
February 2nd, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Los Angeles · class · politics
The Ivory Tower, Bastion of Privileged Ignorance
February 10th, 2006 · No Comments
Once upon a time I was an idealistic undergrad with great intellectual curiosity who longed to spend her life in the academic realm. At the time I hate the term “ivory tower.” I hated the people who implied that academics were locked away from the world and clueless about the lives of real […]
Are you keeping up with the Jones’ debt load?
January 15th, 2006 · No Comments
Last week I logged onto the website of my local credit union to check and see if my rent check had cleared yet. Upon arriving at their website I was greeted by a picture of a large TV with a football player jumping out of it to catch a football and text proclaiming “Buying […]