LOS ANGELES

GUEST COMMENTARY-Prop 47 ushered in an increase in property crime statewide because many theft offenses were made inconsequential misdemeanors that carried little likelihood of incarceration.

MY TURN-Yeah, remember 2010 Midterms? Remember the look on President Obama’s face when he realized that we lost so many seats?

GELFAND’S WORLD--Donald Trump may well be dead broke. So says Paul Campos, a respected law professor and blogger. 

VOICES--Oh dear. Increasingly but mystifyingly, it seems some people are unhappy with their "president."

LATEST CES REPORT--The City of Los Angeles saw 997 more Ellis Act Eviction application filed by landlords and developers for the first half of 2018, January through June. 

DISABILITY PERSPECTIVE--Nearly one in five Americans are living with a disability, according to data from the United States Census Bureau.

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-If you live, work, shop in, visit, or care about the Beverly-Fairfax, Miracle Mile/Museum Row, Restaurant Row, LaBrea Corridor, and Pico/San Vicente neighborhoods,

CAL MATTERS--Jessica Rosales recalls plunging into a downward spiral after discovering that her birth control had failed and she was pregnant.

EASTSIDER-After the recent meeting of the Executive Committee of the California Democratic Party, where they endorsed Kevin de Leon in his run against Dianne Feinstein, you would have thought they were agents for evil left Commie Sympathizers! 

DEEGAN ON LA-No development controversies here, no discussion of “NIMBYs” or “YIMBYs,” just a collection of well-recognized beauties many people know and love yet may not know who their creator was.

CHATTER BOX-Corporate Democrats are extremely worried about the wave of progressive enthusiasm that is sweeping the country in red and blue states alike,

CAL MATTERS--Not too many years ago, when California’s government appeared to be totally dysfunctional, some reform-minded folks considered sponsoring a broad overhaul of the state’s governance structure.

@THE GUSS REPORT-Little did anyone on the Los Angeles-area golf course that day know that the middle-aged duffer among them was a senior level United States Secret Service agent except, perhaps, for some of those in his entourage. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--This is the month in which everyone who is not a dyed in the wool Trump defender has been asking what Putin has on Trump.

URBAN PERSPECTIVE--On the one year anniversary of the death of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore at the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck, Moore’s family, friends and advocates will renew their calls for justice and for criminal charges to be filed against Buck.

ALPERN AT LARGE--It's Metro's job to explore ALL routes in its expanding rail network, and the era is over as to wondering whether or not certain key rail lines will occur.

BCK FILE--Los Angeles lost a treasure this past weekend.

CORRUPTION WATCH-Traditionally, Western Civilization has detested lying and perjury.

EDUCATION POLITICS-Sixty-four years after the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education,declaring that "Separate but equal...is inherently unequal,"

Donald Trump and the Republican Party, increasingly his subsidiary, should be headed to a reckoning of historic proportions.

PERSPECTIVE-Tech giant Amazon.com is considering the City of Los Angeles for its second North American headquarters, which could eventually employ 50,000 people.