Congratulations to Orange County web pioneer Len Kranser. Fourteen years ago this month, Kranser created one of the nation's first well-respected blogs, www.eltoroairport.org. Though the battle over converting the old military air base at El Toro (Irvine) into a commercial airport is long over, this award-winning site continues to be a sometimes controversial, always must-read for folks interested in local airport issues–thanks to Kranser's meticulous efforts.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.