Vanguard Web Extra: Inmates Talk about Contraband
Vanguard contributor Janet Choi talks to a prison inmate about his experience in prison surrounding contraband. For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/vanguard added by: MitchKoss...
View ArticleVanguard Web Extra: Hiding Weapons in Prison
Officers explain how state supplied razors are hidden and used by prison inmates as deadly weapons. For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/vanguard added by: MitchKoss mitchkoss...
View ArticlePrison Contraband
Contributor Janet Choi goes inside a California state prison to investigate contraband smuggled inside the cells, and how cellphones are the new security threat. added by: MitchKoss mitchkoss posted...
View ArticleThere goes the neighborhood
Tomorrow, Vanguard is moving offices from here in Hollywood to a lot in downtown Los Angeles. Like other lots, this one has a lot of security and badges and so forth. Where we are now is a little...
View ArticleSkid Row: Where Did All the People Go?
My blog is a day late because yesterday we moved our offices from Hollywood to a production facility across the 110 Freeway from downtown Los Angeles. Conveniently, at lunchtime, when Tania Rashid and...
View ArticleWhat Do You Want to Watch?
In today’s Los Angeles Times, there is an article on reality shows that portray people doing dangerous jobs, a trend that began with shows like Deadliest Catch, about fisherman off Alaska, and Ice...
View ArticleWeather Report
This week in Copenhagen, negotiations are going on toward producing a pact to fight global warming, a pact that is supposed to be ready for world leaders to ratify at the end of the week. Whether or...
View ArticleThe economy is growing again. Where does that leave you?
Happy? Or scared? Today’s big economic news is a report showing the US Gross Domestic Product grew 3.5 percent from July through September, the first GDP growth in over a year. Wall Street was happy....
View ArticleWhat Came Through the Wall
Last week was the 20th anniversary of the breaching of the Berlin Wall. It also found President Barack Obama still deliberating about what to do with the US Commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley...
View ArticleLining up
Yesterday morning, outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, I stood in a long line for two hours with thousands of other people. We were all braving a pretty cold morning for Southern California, but we...
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