LOS ANGELES

THE VIEW FROM HERE - California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans’ interim report was issued on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. It is worse than expected!

DEEGAN ON LA—The sounds of kids having fun in school yards will be out of earshot of the homeless if the City Council and the LAUSD get a proposed 500-foot exclusionary zone prohibiting the homeless from settling near schools and day care centers.

PLANNING WATCH - To answer this question, let’s look at some rare good news. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Just because someone declares that they are running for mayor does not mean that they are in fact running.

EDUCATION POLITICS - Every ten years, the board districts of the LAUSD are redrawn based on census data.

REDQUEENINLA - One candidate for LA Unified’s District 2 board seat (LAUSD2) is fond of asserting she is not “for charter schools” (CS).

THE DOCTOR IS IN - COVID-19 may linger as a threat, but America's best played a major role in bringing that threat to bear.

DEEGAN ON LA—Perps walking free is the wedge issue that may give undecided voters in CD-5 a reason to vote for Sam Yebri in the June 7 Primary Election.

THE EASTSIDER - Eureka!  LA County now has the solution for homelessness.  If you believe in the tooth fairy. 

PLANNING WATCH - A major reason for LA’s population decline is the rising cost of housing  and the homelessness resulting from over-priced housing. 

LA TRANSPO - As a Los Angeles transit rider since 1993, the addition of a major construction project for the Sepulveda Pass by Metro is greatly supported.

LA ELECTION WATCH - If these were normal times, the regular exercise at the ballot box is simply choosing the lesser of two evils.

LA URBAN FOREST – Los Angeles has a Protected Tree Ordinance (PTO), but if you think that any of the City’s trees are actually protected, think again. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Am I the only one, the only one here,

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Survival of the fittest is a phrase derived from Darwin’s theory of evolution under which only the most successful will reproduce. 

BIG OIL PRICES - Amid the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine, rising gas prices, and the existential threat of climate change, policymakers in Washington have a long list of crises to address.

PLANNING WATCH - Last week’s Planning Watch column generated emails from readers wanting to know where I stood on LA’s Mayoral election, in particular because the column led with a critical LA Times question about Karen Bass’s homeless policies.  

DEEGAN ON LA—-“Protect those that protect your interests” is a phrase that sounds like it should be sharing space in a mouth that’s chomping on a cigar. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Maybe some of you reading this think inflation is great.

LA ELECTION 2022 - The race for Los Angeles City Attorney is as wide-open affair. There are no incumbents; not even a termed out official seeking a new gig. 

EXCLUSIVE TO CITYWATCH - On May 12, LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino officially threw in the towel on his quixotic attempt to become mayor of Los Angeles and then endorsed the billionaire, Rick Caruso.