LOS ANGELES

GUEST COMMENTARY--On October 21, LA City Councilmembers Blumenfield, Buscaino, Rodriguez, Krekorian, Price, Cedillo, and Lee presented a motion to drastically expand the criminalization and banishment of unhoused Angelenos across the city.

VIEW FROM HERE--While we love to flatter ourselves by intoning inane platitudes, the two greatest dangers for America are Faith and Democracy run amuck.

DECISION 2020-I began working on issues of homelessness fifteen years ago out of necessity.

TAX POLITICS-Want to know where the 2020 presidential election is heading? Don’t obsess about the polls. Pay attention to tax lawyers and accountants.

PERSPECTIVE-Should the state override the zoning preferences of local communities?

LEANING RIGHT-Being liberal should be, to all extents and purposes, "open-minded to all ideas, new and old".

CLIMATE POLITICS-Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially! 

LEANING RIGHT--There's a reason or three why so many Californians, be they Republican, Democratic, or Independent, are leaving our big cities and even our Once-Golden State: 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING-We need more affordable housing.

DECISION 2020--Over the last several months, the real estate industry has shelled out nearly $84 million in campaign cash to kill California’s Proposition 21.

VIEW FROM HERE--The two main groups which attack America’s core value of “Liberty to all” are the Democrats and the Republicans. 

GUEST WORDS--Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, streaming on Netflix, is entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny.