ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - At city hall this week there was an item to provide a donation of surplus equipment including surplus ballistic helmets, 378 surplus ballistic vests, and 1,830 surplus chemical suits at below market value ($1.00). 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - As a writer who has been experimenting with ridiculously long rambling articles intended to keep folks who do not have the time to attend these dangerous public meetings apprised about what is going on,

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - I have delivered millions of words and at least one million too many, for sure, to CityWatch. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Hoteliers were out in force and slapped back a frothy plan to require hotels to house the homeless.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut allegedly turned to his pal Joe Heller at a party on Shelter Island, "This hedge fund manager, whose house we are in made more in a single day than you made on Catch 22 over its whole history, Joe." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Friday, there was something of a cosmic joke as Strefan Fauble, who has certainly done his fair share of the customary garrotting of public speakers in Mayor Garcetti's Temple of Democracy, seemed to have had his microphone shut down.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Who wants to be the homelessness beat reporter?   What a grim assignment. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A respected journalist, Jeff Jarvis, who identifies as a CUNY professor fired off a 19-tweet salute last week, touting the natural scarcity of quality.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - I grew up in the suburbs of New York so started reading a local Gannet chain newspaper as a boy and the New York Times. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Louis “Skip” Miller is an attorney who frequently represents the county of Los Angeles, and the county does not willingly share how much they compensate his law firm, Miller Barondess, LLP, but the county does allow Skip wide latitude when it comes to speaking out in court and to the press.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The power of invisibility is powerful. Lindsay Horvath tried to wipe her website of WeHo, from whence she came.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The image below is not a red state, exactly. It's the 1.75 acre Caruso compound in the Brentwood Park neighborhood.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Recidivism, the word of the day on July 6th, is defined as "relapse into criminal behavior, or more broadly, a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Boris Johnson, the beleaguered Prime Minister of Great Britain 🇬🇧says the world should be electing more women to combat toxic masculinity.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - “At the end of the day, most people are not corrupt at City Hall, no matter how cynical we are,”

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Mike Bonin said on Friday June 24, 2022 during the City Council meeting "One of my biggest regrets in leaving office in a few months, is that we will not have managed to get anything 100% affordable built in the Pacific Palisades."  

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The mighty County Board of Supervisors scraped along the bottom for a moment or two before grinding to a complete halt on Tuesday.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Driving by a Perrier bottle lying in the open road in Studio City following a day in which several trashcans along Ventura Boulevard had been overturned by an angry vandal or vandals, I thought about what it means to be a good citizen.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Judge Carter, who may need his head examined, has signed off on a settlement in the LA Alliance for Human Rights lawsuit aimed at getting the City and County of Los Angeles to break the cycle of shame. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOPK - The Los Angeles Civilian Oversight Commission COC has been probing the presence of gang members in the county sheriff’s department. On Friday they were stonewalled.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The County Board of Supervisors has been on the equivalent of a drunken rampage, wherein they keep missing or cancelling their public meetings,