LOS ANGELES

HOUSING CRISIS - It's been said that everything starts in California.

DEEGAN ON LA—-Is there a leg up for several first-time candidates running for city council seats in the June 7 Primary Election? 

DEEGAN ON LA - Alex Gruenenfelder Smith is a big-tent, practical, Progressive running for Mayor, staking out room on the left-leaning spectrum for thoughtful reforms; preaching progress through supportable change, not by radically retooling how the city is managed. 

YESTERDAY LA - When Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley opened Dodger Stadium on April 10, 1962, his ticket price structure was simple, straightforward, and inexpensive:

THE VIEW FROM HERE - June 7, 2022 may be the only election for Los Angeles Mayor.  Although it is called a primary, the two top vote getters do not necessary face each other in the November 2022 general election.

LA POLITICS - You can always count on Buscaino to take advantage of somebody else’s misery.

ESSAY ON LA IMMIGRANTS - Generations ago, in the parenthesis of years between Hitler’s 1933 rise to power and the end of World War II, a deluge of European artists and intellectuals came to the U.S., seeking refuge from the rising tide of fascism.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Whether one believes that the economy is capitalist or socialist, the government’s role should be the same – to protect the Price System. 

THE EASTSIDER – Just turn on the TV, or go online, it doesn’t make much difference. 

PLANNING WATCH - To the surprise of virtually no one, the homeless crisis in California is getting worse, despite – or more likely because of – the programs rolled out by elected officials and the policy wonks who work for them.  

UNION AGREEMENT - For two years as the pandemic consumed day-to-day life, supermarket workers literally risked their lives to keep shelves stocked and customers fed.

LA MAYORAL RACE - Why does Los Angeles trust Sacramento and Washington more than it trusts itself?

OP/ED - For years, Los Angeles “leaders” have debated crises in affordability, homelessness, crime, the pandemic, and more. And as with seemingly everything, they have accomplished nothing.

TENANTS RIGHTS - The promising new tool in the fight to preserve affordable housing: a coalition of tenant unions. 

PLANNING WATCH - In last week’s Planning Watch column I explained why LA’s mayoral candidates are mum on the climate crisis. 

REVISITING LA UPRISING - Thirty years ago this week, four Los Angeles Police Department officers (Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, Officer Theodore J. Briseno, Officer Timothy E. Wind and Officer Laurence Powell) were acquitted of brutally beating a Black man by the name of Rodney King.

EDUCATION WATCH - Poverty has increased in LAUSD post-covid. And in two board districts the late Eli Broad’s plan to transfer half of LAUSD into “charter school seats” is nearly fulfilled.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - This involves the old adage, “figures don’t lie but liars can figure.” 

RantZ and RaveZ - The annual Baker to Las Vegas Law Enforcement relay race was held the first weekend in April. 

LA GOVERNMENT - Does the City of LA need to update its Municipal Lobbying Ordinance (MLO)?  The Ethics Commission thinks so, and they’re proposing a number of amendments to the LA Municipal Code.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - There are seven candidates vying to fill some pretty big boots in the Office of the City Controller when Ron Galperin leaves later this year.