LOS ANGELES

DECISION 2020--1990, I moved to LA to attend the American Film Institute; only 1 of 6 in the producing program’s second year and the sole Woman of Color producer.

@THE GUSS REPORT-How corrupt is Los Angeles City Attorney Michael Nelson Feuer? 

PERSPECTIVE-The armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been in the local news lately.

VIEW FROM HERE--While almost all Americans labor under the false impression that America is a democracy, the powers-that-be are politically dismantling us.

VIEW FROM HERE-Americans love polls.  They love for their opinions to be asked and then written down. 

GELFAND’S WORLD—(Political Perspective: Center Left) When the editor of CityWatch asked me to be the other side of Jack Humphreville’s ballot recommendations, I wondered a bit about calling us left and right.

HOUSING POLITICS-A congresswoman tweets “Cancel [rent].” Others take the sentiment further, writing: “Every landlord is a fascist,” “All landlords are evil scum,” “Kill the landlords,” and “Landlords are the devil.”

OTHER WORDS-Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito just issued a statement implying they may seek to overturn the ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

EDUCATION POLITICS--School board candidate Marilyn Koziatek’s ties to groups promoting discrimination against LGBTQ people and families and to those defrauding and coercing pregnant women raises concerns about her fitness for office. 

SOAKING THE POOR-As many of us already have seen, The New York Times was able to obtain President Trump’s tax information for the past twenty years.

SCOTUS POLITICS-Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in on the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

INSIDER REPORT--Los Angeles, with more than sixty-six-thousand homeless residents, is experiencing a housing disaster.