May 3, 2012   This Week in the Frying Pan The ACORN of the Restaurant Industry by James Elmendorf    The University of Michigan may lose $5 million because a restaurant group is angry that some students picketed one of its locations. James Elmendorf brings us up to date on the purchase of academic freedom.   Read Here   1992 Remembered: Memory, Truth and Justice by Danny Feingold  Danny Feingold wraps up our series of interviews and reminiscences about L.A.'s 1992 upheaval, reflecting on the fragile nature of memory and progress. Read More Santa Monica Dreaming: Trouble in Rent-Controlled Paradise by Rev. Jim Conn The Reverend Jim Conn finds life is no bed of roses for workers and low-income families living in Santa Monica. Read More   Frying Pan News is a blog about the current economy and our collective efforts to create a new and better one. Monday-Friday you will find original content on politics, business, labor, jobs, the environment, culture - in other words, the economy and all the myriad areas of contemporary life that it touches. Visit us at: http://fryingpannews.org/        Featured Media: 1992 Remembered This month Frying Pan News presents personal stories of the April 29-May 4, 1992 explosion that has been called everything from a riot to a rebellion. These recollections do not represent the point of view of this blog or its sponsor, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. They do, however, present snapshots of a moment in a city's troubled history - as well as opinions about how far we still need to go to make Los Angeles work.    Read More