Investigations: Post-Katrina Race War

"Katrina's Hidden Race War," published in The Nation Dec. 17, reveals the little-known story of a dozen African Americans shot in post-hurricane New Orleans. The Nation's A.C. Thompson found in a lengthy investigation that a militia of gun-toting white men ran amok in the city. The story reports police haven't fully investigated many of the crimes committed against African Americans in the hurricane's aftermath.

TAGS: investigations

Da Biz: The Media's Subprime Debt Bomb

Amid the soul-searching about the media business and tough times ahead in the internet age, there's been little focus on one of the key fundamentals: massive debt. Many of our industry's problems aren't the result of the business model being screwed up per se, but rather because of really bad business decision-making - a fascinating parallel to subprime borrowing, in fact. This interesting article from Silicon Valley CEO Alan Mutter explains more.

TAGS: the biz, future of journalism

Tools: Free Legal Search Engines

Just posted links to three cool free legal search engines in my resources blogroll for "the law, justice, organized crime and policing" (see right-hand bar): Justia, AltLaw and Public Library of Law. Use these babies to search for court decisions, regulations, law blogs, research and laws. Thanks to Bilbo for bringing this Wired story on these sites to my attention.

TAGS: law, search, tools