“They were taken into a seminar room and, with one exception (a coward who jumped out the window instead of facing the killer’s humiliating charges), were killed with a sawed off shotgun,” Symanski writes in the memoir, describing part of his novel. “Nearly an entire academic department was eliminated.” Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Sonoma County to pay $3 million to family of boy who was toting fake gun when he was killed by deputy
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleged that Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus acted unreasonably when he shot Andy Lopez, an eighth-grader, in a residential neighborhood. The lawsuit called the Oct. 22 shooting, which sparked protests and rallies in Sonoma County, “a senseless and unwarranted act of police abuse.” Source: latimes.com […]
Blog: India tries to build a world-class city from scratch, and looks to Singapore for help
In 2014, Andhra Pradesh was split into two, and Hyderabad became the capital of the new state, Telangana. Naidu, who had been voted out of office as chief minister a decade earlier, returned as chief minister of the new, smaller Andhra Pradesh, bereft of its largest city – and his crown jewel. Source: latimes.com – […]
Blog: Author Alice Walker under fire for endorsing book by ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist’
"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet and activist, was interviewed for the New York Times… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: CRE investors see market slowdown amid shrinking borrowing costs vs. yields
(Credit: iStock) Commercial real estate investors are looking at the difference between long-term interest rates and property yields and seeing a clear sign the current market cycle is sputtering out. That spread between rates and yields have reached their narrowest margin in more than a decade. For some market pros, that is enough to predict […]
Blog: Homage, Not Larceny: On Nicholas Friedman’s “Petty Theft”
DECEMBER 18, 2018 NICHOLAS FRIEDMAN’S first book of poems, Petty Theft, won the prestigious New Criterion Poetry Prize, a contest open to manuscripts that “pay close attention to form.” The selection of Friedman’s book is hardly surprising; his carefully crafted poems have been showing up with regularity in Poetry, The Yale Review, and other top […]