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Justice Clarence Thomas breaks 10-year streak, asks question in court

For the first time in a decade, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke during oral arguments.

Perhaps this is a leap year event.

Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'

The last train on the last line of greater Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric streetcar network made its last run on April 9, 1961.

Between 1938 and 1950, one company purchased and took over the transit systems of more than 25 American cities. 

Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails. 

National City Lines acquired the Los Angeles Railway in 1945, and within 20 years diesel buses – or indeed private automobiles – would carry all the yellow cars’ former passengers. Does that strike you as a coincidence?

Read the full story.

Photographs: AP (top); Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images (middle); Dan Chung for the Guardian (bottom)

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Happy Friday!

In the company of Mark Reichel, the Defense Attorney for Isaiah Fowler, I spent Saturday in and around the crime scene of the Leila Fowler stabbing. The community is not as isolated as one might think and the neighbors were glad the initial law enforcement and media frenzy has passed. There were a...

Documentary on Alabama war hero Jeremiah Denton a hit with preview audience

A new documentary about Vietnam War hero Jeremiah Denton got a standing ovation Sunday from a preview audience including some of Denton's family members, one of whom said she was "blown away" by the work.

For those who might agree with Donald Trump’s view that POW’s are losers, I suggest they take the time to view this documentary produced by Alabama Public TV.  It chronicles the Hanoi Hilton Experience of former Navy pilot Jeremiah Denton.  PBS aired the documentary on Memorial Day evening. 

George Condo, Pastels. SoHo

Amédée Ozenfant (French, 1886-1966), Ramure [Tree-top], 1956. Oil on canvas, 46.5 x 55 cm.