by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, April 05, 1997
Involvement in the arts and music helps prepare young people for the responsibilities of adult life. Investing in such programs is sound economic policy and smart public policy.by Lori Dorfman | Los Angeles Times
Tuesday, March 18, 1997
Alcohol is the country's No. 1 drug problem, but ABC's public service advertising is not the way to address it. Raising alcohol's price through excise taxes is.by Phyllis Orrick, Susan Rasky | SF Weekly
Wednesday, January 15, 1997
Berkeley Media Studies Group and its partners at Coleman Advocates, a San Francisco-based welfare rights group, are training a group of San Francisco parents to get their voices heard in the media, making sure the opinions and needs of ordinary citizens -- women and children in particular -- don't go unnoticed.by Katie Woodruff | San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, October 14, 1996
BMSG's Katie Woodruff commends the Chronicle for a front-page article that illustrated the connection between violence and economic conditions in East Palo Alto. Also promising, writes Woodruff, was city officials' recognition that increasing economic opportunity -- not police -- is key to reducing crime.by Lawrence Wallack | The New York Times
Thursday, July 04, 1996
The proliferation of guns, increasing income disparities, the widespread availability of alcohol, and funding prisons over schools have created a recipe for youth crime. Youth did not create the policies that led to these conditions. Yet, as BMSG co-director Lawrence Wallack points out, society vilifies youth when these conditions prove harmful.
by Lori Dorfman | Columbia Journalism Review
Monday, July 01, 1996
In response to an article regarding a KVUE experiment with crime coverage in Austin, BMSG's Lori Dorfman challenges KVUE to go even further. She submits that reporters should link their questions to an understanding of public health data on violence.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Examiner
Friday, January 26, 1996
BMSG director Lori Dorfman takes on an Examiner editorial that urged the University of California Board of Regents to rescind its decision to abolish the use of preferential admissions. The editorial, she writes, rests on assumptions that the regents' action was politically motivated and violated academic freedom.by Lori Dorfman | New York Times
Saturday, September 09, 1995
Californians may have unwittingly replaced the state's university system with the prison system when they voted to approve the "three-strikes" law, which extends prison sentences for habitual offenders. BMSG director Lori Dorfman explains why in this letter to the editor.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, August 04, 1995
In this letter to the editor, BMSG co-director Lori Dorfman calls for the state to stop investing in prisons and instead pour the money into communities to help prevent crime before it starts.by Lori Dorfman | San Francisco Examiner
Monday, March 20, 1995
In this letter to the editor, BMSG's Lori Dorfman highlights that we all have much to gain from fewer guns in our homes.
