Good morning -- here's what's happening 6.10.08
Want your commute to get easier? Then ask your fellow Americans to, pretty please, stop buying so much stuff. (Not such a bad idea anyway.) A big reason our roads are so clogged are the big-rigs and trains (think railroad crossings) rushing all those iPhones and Barbies and barbecues to eager shoppers living in points East.
Ten years ago, Paul Walters lost the election for sheriff of the O.C. to Michael S. Carona. Now Carona's the disgraced and scandal-ridden ex-sheriff facing trial, and Walters finds himself once again in line for the job of the O.C.'s top cop. So who is Paul Walters, anyway?
And he's not alone in wanting the job. Former L.A. County sheriff's division commander Sandra Hutchens -- she started in the department as a secretary -- is giving him some strong competition.
After the first jury deadlocked, a police brutality case in Maywood gets a second trial.
Are charter schools really better than traditional schools? A survey released today says yes, but educators say the survey relied too much on test scores, and the results are questionable.
The foreclosure road trip -- what our reporter and photographer found on a sad drive through hard-hit communities.
Can the Lakers get it together and win? Can Angelenos abide the Beantown invasion?
It was only a matter of time -- violence at the pumps as drivers wait a little too long to pay way too much for gas.
Another breakup, another album. Love her or hate her, it's a formula that works for Alanis Morissette.
-- Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Los Angeles Times
