ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

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. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Though we are fourth in the nation among large cities in the category of veteran victimization, we have a lot to learn from San Diego when it comes to military contracting fraud. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Nearly 15 years ago Peter Guber wrote for Harvard Business Review “Make the ‘I’ in your story become ‘we,’ so the whole tribe or community can come together and unite behind your experience and the idea it embodies.” 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The purpose of the seasonal 4-day conference among legislators and lobbyists held each year in Maui, Hawaii is to provide a setting, away from the Capitol, for elected officials and a diverse group of industry experts to consider policy matters in a nonpartisan manner with mai tais and tickle attacks from landside Editorial boards. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Street furniture is Bob Blumenfield's jam.  He loves the "Outfront Media" component and everybody pulling together at the corporate level.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - We were discussing the benefits of a chiropractor -- a cousin told a story of a friend who went in for an adjustment and had her neck broken.  I told her straight up, in that case, "I'd hire a lawyer." 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The City Council heard from Fred Ali (Chair) and Frank Cardenas (Exec Director), the virtual masterminds behind the new redistricting recommendations that arrived Tuesday after months of mounting testimony and a contentious 2020 census.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - At Thursday's pre-Halloween Metro meeting there was a slight chill in the air following the indictment of treasured colleague and co-conspirator, Mark Ridley-Thomas. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The Queen was apparently hunkered down at her desk doing royal paperwork after her small bout of over exhaustion.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - District Dirt. Ruth Galanter reportedly said this week, "The value system that does seem to operate is 'Where can I raise the most money for whatever it is I want to raise it for, or wherever it is I want to have influence?"

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Not exactly sure what to say about how to fill the very large shoes of Mark Ridley-Thomas.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - One of the permissible "I told you so" moments in life comes when a public official who you've been blowing the whistle on for years finally faces some music.  Any music.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Paul Krekorian, who is reportedly moving out of what was once a modest house in North Hollywood, but now a $2.6 million dollar McMansion, should consider holding a request for proposals RFP for something to shut his dog up during city work meetings.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Squid Games, the hit on Netflix, has tapped a sense familiar to people in the USA, Western Europe and other places, that prosperity in nominally rich countries has become increasingly difficult to achieve, as wealth disparities widen and home prices soar upwards past affordable levels. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Tuesday, the board lumped the entire Supplemental Budget Meeting into its regularly scheduled board meeting agenda, so it was virtually impossible for the public to speak before or during consideration of those items. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - It's hard to know what to think sometimes out in Studio City, as people from all over the city come to town, play golf on the local par nine golf course at Weddington on Whitsett and then try to adjust our community's narrative.  

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - The Inboxes are blowing up at the California League of Cities offices.

Drought Dogs:  The dogs, a large black lab named Montana and a medium sized tan mutt named Winston, make several sorties a day up to the top of the hill behind our house at full speed; they never catch anything.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Off Agenda:  RIP Norm Macdonald:

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Homelessness*  (Us v. Them)