
The IRS has long since given up threatening to jail Catholic Worker and writer Jeff Dietrich for failing to pay taxes. Dietrich never pleads innocent nor asks for mercy during sentencing after being arrested for civil disobedience. He knows he will sleep peacefully in jail and his prosecutor, judge and jury won’t.

She doesn’t get paid for the work she does for the Manhattan Beach Police Department, which includes at least 20 hours a month on patrol. But at times since she began working as a reserve officer over 22 years ago, Michelle Darringer, 53, has commuted from as far away as Bakersfield.


