ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Sometimes, sports are about winning. Other times, they're about more than that. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The wind beneath Kenny's wings: Curren Price brought on two chaps connected to the NFL to join in his non-agendized Kenny Washington tribute. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Nithya Raman and Bob Blumenfield have a nice rapport.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - 3 Points, Holly J Mitchell: The location will have 176 beds and will allow residents who have ongoing substance abuse issues, mental illnesses, and pets, according to Luana Murphy of Exodus Recovery, which is operating the center. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The City Council President Nury Martinez canceled the regular meeting scheduled for Wednesday February 2, 2022 and replaced it with a Special meeting with 43 items.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Since 1892: There was speculation on Wednesday that Marqueece Harris Dawson of CD8 may have been having his goatee professionally trimmed and that Curren Price may have finally gotten the memo from Monica Rodriguez CD7 re: thick black eyeglass frames because both were quite late. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Thwarted: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has filed a lawsuit alleging that her career was thwarted after she decided a close friend of Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s wife was unfit to serve as a deputy.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Wednesday, January 19, 2022, I had a lot to say, and  I knew that since the Council President had nixed one of the three council meetings this week.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - In the reported agreement, the former prime minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu will admit to two counts of breach of trust, resulting in a suspended prison sentence and a few months of prison time that will be converted to community service. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Ezra Klein had the opinion in the New York Times, that to protect democracy, Democrats have to win more elections. And to do that, they need to make sure the country’s local electoral machinery isn’t corrupted.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - January is busy this year as the impacts of a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, worrisome drought conditions, and the endless festering homelessness crisis take center stage.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A shameful effort to blunt public scrutiny by the council president continues. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Carte blanche is the permission to do something however one chooses to do it. Carte blanche is much like a blank check.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Paul Koretz, who is running for Controller, and Nithya Raman who has a brand new district, but still retains Griffith park... are testing the public's appetite for situational irony with a motion to study Pony conditions in Griffith Park. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOOK - A hilarious Christmas story How Murray Saved Christmas from an Emmy award-winning writer of The Simpsons, Mike Reiss, follows the pattern of Night before Christmas. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Loneliness is a public health concern – one thing I absolutely agree with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors about --  that has compounded problems of substance use, homelessness, violence, and mental health. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Flanked by a cadre of the nation's leading progressive prosecutors, advocates and community leaders, District Attorney George Gascón marked his first year in office by outlining the office’s efforts to keep communities safe, improve victim services and implement criminal justice reforms. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - At the People's Choice Awards Simu Liu told people that "I went to school, college for finance and accounting... and it was because I didn't have the courage inside me to give myself the permission to pursue what I truly wanted.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Nury Martinez the President of the City Council faced sharp criticism implying that her kibosh of the City's Redistricting commission's recommendations was evidence of how insecure, but I thought also vulnerable, she really is.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The 10 most expensive cities are: Tel Aviv, Singapore/Paris (tie), Zurich, Hong Kong, New York, Geneva Copenhagen, Denmark, Los Angeles, Osaka, Japan. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The smash and grab gang had a good week, and the porch pirates are ramping up for December.