Color Bind
Racial disparity on Orange County’s juvenile justice system;;If you’re a juvenile delinquent in Orange County, it pays to be white.;;If you’re caught, you’re less likely than a black kid to be imprisoned before trial, and if you’re found guilty, you’re less likely than your black brethren to be sent to a juvenile correctional institution. So…
Betrayal of confidence
The stiry behind the race to market Confide, one of the first HIV home-testing kits It’s been three months since the first home HIV/AIDS test hit the market nationwide. Already, despite all of the hoopla over its arrival, it has acquired a seemingly permanent spot on the shelf behind the counter at local pharmacies. But…
Cocaine expose gets snow job
Shock waves should have jolted America when the news broke in England a few weeks ago: “The C.I.A. actively encouraged drug-trafficking in order to fund right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua during the 1980’s, and the C.I.A. agent in Nicaragua was employed to ensure the money went to the contras and not into the pockets of…
‘Percolate up’ economics
Remember all the Gloom & Doom predicted by those lawmakers and lobbyists who fought the raise in minimum wage this past summer? “Somebody’s going to get hurt. Somebody loses a job or somebody closes-up shop,” wailed Bob Dole himself. Rep. Robert Walker of Pennsylvania flatly proclaimed that the increase in the minimum wage “will set…
