Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles
It is a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography, justice for all earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times. I first became familiar with his writing in the 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trials for the officers and the beating of rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing. Concisely andings clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter. I saw not only was he amazingly talented but a reporter of enormous integrity. He believed the Los Angeles Times was not devoting enough to charter reform and quit his position in protest of this. He put
L. A. Times covering the trials for the officers and the beating o. J. Dney king and then the simpson case. He always wrote with amazing speed and great pelicans. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter. I saw not only was he amazingly talented but a reporter of incredible integrity. He believed the Los Angeles Times was not devoting enough to reform and quit his position in protest of this. He put his very job on the line because he believed in the importance of stories. Atthen as now was a star the times, and as a result, they gave tremendous attention to charter reform. I will always believe charter reform succeeded because of what jim newton did. A few years ago, he mentioned to me he was planning on taking time off to do a biography of earl warren. I thought it was a great idea, and that i
Story author of bestselling from slavery to freedom appeared 2006. The first white man that engage me that i remember when i was in high school and it was a man from the afternoon newspaper. The tribune did not employ any young black newsboys. I was employed with another job i wasnt always clear what it was but in the afternoon i helped him tied the newspapers and wrap them or whatever we di did. That i help to deliver the newspapers. But i did not collect. He collected the money and he had all the contacts i had no contact with the newspaper all theyll know they knew i was employed by him. But there were no black people to serve as newsboys. My father was a lawyer. I had contact with white people through him, but most casual and not serious just being introduced. Was born in a village in oklahoma south of tulsa about 60 miles south and my father and mother move there in 1912 because he had experience from Shreveport Louisiana and these experiences were not pleasant so they moved to wh
Soledad im soledad obrien, welcome to matter of fact. From new york to california, and everywhere in between, the u. S. Is facing a housing shortage. Its fueled in part by a lack of supply. New numbers show a sharp drop in Affordable Homes on the market. Only about 10 of newlybuilt homes are considered affordable with a price tag under 200,000. 10 years ago that number was 40 . In an effort to provide Affordable Housing options and boost the local economy, many cities are relying on urban renewal policies. But that often targets poor neighborhoods, pushing out the people who live there. Some cities are working to change that. In louisville, kentucky, theres an ambitious 870 million plan to improve the historic russell neighborhood without gentrifying it. Central to that plan is creating mixedIncome Housing. The second installment of our series americas cities russell rising, takes a look at the Housing Project beecher terrace, where the citys objectives will be put to the test with a p