COMMENTARY--Low power FM radio is a superb idea. Allowing small, community-oriented stations to spring up--emitting just the power of an ordinary light bulb-- would be a burst of fresh broadcast air.

The story of community activist Michael Taylor's life and death – of his rise from L.A.'s Skid Row to the broadcast booth at KPFK 90.7 FM, of his ill-fated venture into micro-radio and his ...