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Standing In Line With Markers

There Will Be No Honeymoon for Eric Garcetti

Joseph Mailander
May 23, 2013
MAILANDER’S LA - The Mayor-Elect of Los Angeles Eric Garcetti and I share a birthday, and in the very late innings of the most recent episode of that most joyous day, the then-candidate sent me an email: "Hope you got to celebrate it for one of us," he said. I told him that I was pulling for him but would complain the moment he was elected. "I'd expect nothing less," he responded, ever the candidate, still working it. After the feel-good moment of Garcetti's election as Mayor of the second most important city in the universe--it is presently so important that three-fourths of its inhabitants couldn't care less about who runs it--fades away, I have a feeling that lots and lots of people are going to get in line to call in markers on the man they helped make Mayor of our city. And I also have a feeling that Garcetti as usual is one step ahead of all of them, expecting it, even waiting for it, and chuckling along with them. Read More...

How Wendy Greuel Lost the Mayor’s Race

Cary Brazeman
May 23, 2013
CARY AT LARGE – I was a Wendy Greuel supporter for most of the campaign, before I grabbed a life preserver and jumped off the ship late in the primary season. Greuel could have won the mayor’s race. She has the chops, the experience, the force of personality. But her campaign never rose to the occasion, and it certainly didn’t lift us up and motivate voters (not even women in large numbers) to turn out. Here’s how Greuel beat herself in the race for mayor of Los Angeles. Read More...

Another Memorial Day in This Endless War

Amy Goodman
May 23, 2013
MEMORIAL DAY MEMO - In a remarkable but little-noticed oversight hearing last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee looked at “The Law of Armed Conflict, the Use of Military Force, and the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.” The 2001 AUMF is the act passed by Congress on Sept. 14, three days after the al-Qaida attacks on the United States. Sen. Angus King, an independent from Maine, opened his questioning of the military officials before him by stating: “Gentlemen, I’ve only been here five months, but this is the most astounding and most astoundingly disturbing hearing that I’ve been to since I’ve been here. You guys have essentially rewritten the Constitution here today.” Read More...

Coming Out of the (Cannabis) Closet

Bill Rosendahl
May 23, 2013
FIRST PERSON - It's true. I use cannabis. First I used it to treat neuropathy in my feet and now it provides incredible relief from the severe and sometimes debilitating pain caused by a late stage cancer strangling the nerves in my lower back. As the first elected official in United States to openly use medical cannabis -- and belong to a collective in West Los Angeles -- this "coming out of the cannabis closet" is a moment for me to encourage others to openly share their amazing success stories.  Read More...

Our Women in Uniform Deserve Better

Martha Burk
May 23, 2013
A MEMORIAL DAY MEMO - The Pentagon has a systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to doing battle with the military's sexual assault problem. Americans have honored our soldiers and those killed in U.S. wars in late May for nearly 150 years. Memorial Day, which became an official holiday in 1868, was originally called Decoration Day and got started when civilian women decided to decorate military graves from both sides of the Civil War.  Read More...

When Lightning Strikes Twice

Sara Roos
May 23, 2013
MUSE WITH ME - Across Los Angeles, parents understand it is no mere accident of the vote that twice in as many months, and twice in two different parts of the city, lightning has struck in the very same place. Twice now in successive elections Mayor Villaraigosa’s cabal of mostly out-of-state, neoliberal, information-obsessed tech-coons has been outvoted in spite of the shock and awe of their exogenous overspending.  Read More...

Does Anything Change in Los Angeles With Election of New Mayor?

Bill Boyarsky
May 23, 2013
ELECTION 2013 … WHAT DOES IT MEAN? The Los Angeles election Tuesday again revealed a city unlike most of the country—more liberal, more deeply Democratic, yet also more interested in medical marijuana than the troubles of the poor. “Southern California, an island on the land,” is how Carey McWilliams, the late historian and editor of The Nation, once described LA and the area around it. “A region geographically attached, rather than functionally related, to the rest of America,” McWilliams wrote in 1946 of the place he loved.  Read More...

Happy Days Are Here Again in This Temple of Democracy

Ron Kaye
May 23, 2013
RON KAYE ON LA - Sunshine peeks through the clouds, the cynics with all their money and power vanish to their private enclaves, double-dipping Dennis Zine roars off on his Harley to his posh desert hideaway never to be seen again — the costliest, most tediously painful, anti-climactic city election is finally over. Happy days are here again in this wonderland called LA.  Read More...

 

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Fixing the City: As Simple As A-B-C

Ken Alpern
May 23, 2013
MEMO TO OUR NEWLY ELECTED - First, congratulations are in order to those who won last Tuesday. Read More...

Competence was the Winner Tuesday

Paul Hatfield
May 23, 2013
PERSPECTIVE - Tuesday’s victories by Eric Garcetti and Ron Galperin represented what could be a turning point in Los Angeles politics. The voters, or… Read More...

Once Homeless, A San Pedro High Student Snares Coveted Posse Scholarship

Diana L. Chapman
May 23, 2013
MY TURN - Sitting in the dark, Danielle "Ella" Johnson stared at the dirty cot her 3-month old nephew was in. Read More...

The Fantasticks, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa

James Scarborough
May 23, 2013
PERFORMING ARTS - Wow. Such is The Fantasticks, written by Tom Jones, with music by Harvey Schmidt, and directed by Amanda Dehnert for the Segerstrom… Read More...

Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

Patrick Range McDonald
May 23, 2013
PERSPECTIVE - After 19 years spent mostly in elected office, where he has gained a reputation as a frenetic promoter of both himself and the city,… READ MORE...

Keeping Score on City Hall to Improve Los Angeles' Economy and Jobs

Russell Goldsmith and Michael Kelly
May 20, 2013
GUEST WORDS - Southern California recently captured the world's attention with the landing of Caltech's and JPL's Mars Rover, the launching of… READ MORE...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Sara Roos
May 20, 2013
MUSE WITH ME - I listened to LAUSD’s head honcho call himself a “numbers guy” recently: “…mathematics, chemistry, physics – I get that; I’m a numbers… READ MORE...

The “Care” Dare

Janet Schaaf-Gunter
May 20, 2013
VOICES - Japanese film maker Yojyu Matsubayashe has created a film dedicated to the Fukushima disaster. Matsubayashe laments, “It was human arrogance… READ MORE...


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San Pedro Still On the Verge

James Preston Allen
Apr 22, 2013
RANDOM LENGTHS - I have lived in this seaport community for 40 years now and I’m still discovering secrets in this close-knit town. Secrets that even some of the long-time residents don’t know or understand. READ MORE...

Move Over West Hollywood -- Silver Lake Is the True Gay Mecca

Tyler Trykowski
Apr 22, 2013
LA WEEKLY - Could gays of the 1980s imagine what it would be like to be gay in 2013? From the Supreme Court pondering marriage equality to NFL players weighing how best to come out, the way we're gay today is nothing like it's ever been before. READ MORE...

Is it Time to Privatize City Services?

Henk Friezer
Apr 22, 2013
EAGLE ROCK PATCH - I write this with utter frustration with our city services. READ MORE...

Questions Still Remain About Sexual Misconduct Scandal Surrounding Oxy Athletics Trainer

Ajay Singh
Apr 11, 2013
EAGLE ROCK PATCH - A longtime Occidental College athletics trainer who resigned last month following allegations that he sexually harassed female students READ MORE...

 

  

Senate Committee Sacrifices LGBT Protections in Immigration Reform Bill

Jacob Combs
May 23, 2013
CIVIL RIGHTS - In a stunning and disheartening defeat, Democrats in the Senate Judiciary Committee chose Tuesday not to include protections for… READ MORE...

My 2013 High School Commencement Speech

Joe Mathews
May 23, 2013
CONNECTING CALIFORNIA - To the distinguished California Public High School Class of 2013. READ MORE...

Censoring Our Food

Jill Richardson
May 23, 2013
ANIMAL RIGHTS - Standing outside a slaughterhouse in Draper City, Utah, Amy Meyer was horrified by what she saw. READ MORE...

Letting Murderers Go Free

Laura Finley
May 23, 2013
SERIAL KILLER LOOSE ON DEATH ROW - Breaking News: In Florida, a murderer has made public his plans to kill three individuals in the next six weeks. READ MORE...

● LA.STREETSBLOG: Yes Virginia, there will be a Leimert Park station 

● LA OBSERVED: Good luck policing LA’s new pot shop restrictions 

● LA WEEKLY: Antonio Villaraigosa’s quest for Wall Street, Washington and wealth 

● LA OBSERVED: Latinos: Losers in LA Mayoral Race 

● RON KAYE: This is Matrix City 

● MAILANDER: Eric Garcetti … Onward
 

Inglewood: Free Money for Rich Developers

Randall Fleming
May 23, 2013
INSIDE INGLEWOOD - Inglewood District 1 residents who received the City of Inglewood’s recent Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) survey take… READ MORE...

Did Councilman Reyes Break his Promise To Glassell Park?

Alisa Smith
May 20, 2013
VOICES - On the City Council agenda Tuesday, in a completely snarky move, Ed Reyes has pushed forward a motion (CFN#13-0532) regarding the sale of… READ MORE...

Apologies to Mayor Bradley

Jack Humphreville
May 20, 2013
LA WATCHDOG - On Tuesday, May 21, the politically appointed Commissioners of Los Angeles World Airports are expected to recommend that the Great Hall… READ MORE...

The Undocumented: Why Do They Still Come?

Joel Kotkin
May 20, 2013
DIFFERENT IMMIGRATION DREAMS - It's been two decades since California Gov. Pete Wilson used grainy ads of undocumented immigrants – "They keep… READ MORE...

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