In the News
Housing for the Homeless: The Boat Solution
Ships like that contain hundreds of rooms with running water, showers, privacy, and a place to store one's belongings securely; they have facilities for food preparation, medical care, and recreation.
Residents would be free to com…
LAPD Probe into Hollywood Sex Crimes Explodes to Nearly 24 Cases
IF ONLY THE BOX OFFICE WERE DOING THIS WELL--The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating nearly two dozen cases of possible sexual m…
California Assemblyman Bocanegra Set to Resign … Sexual Harassment Charges ‘Too Costly to Fight’
POLITICS--Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, announced Monday that he would not seek re-election and immediately resign from his leader…
How Journalists Hurt Homeless Animals in “No Kill” LA
@THE GUSS REPORT-LA journalists will soon blindly trumpet that Mayor Garcetti’s animal shelters are “No Kill” when there is no such thing a…
Parent of Black Teen in Jail Charged with Murder Speaks Out on Rich White Teen Out on Bail
JUSTICE WATCH--A wealthy, white Southern California teen, accused of murder and premeditated murder in an Oct. 1 gang-related killing in So…
The Cost of Silence Part 2: How a Wealthy LA Democratic Donor Muted an Entire Political Party
REVEALED—(Editor’s Note: The Los Angeles Times reported this weekend that Democratic Donor Ed Buck’s home was found littered with drug para…
A Moment of Clarity: One Real Nazi, One Real Monster, Dead
ALPERN AT LARGE--Some of us are too quick to accuse others as evil, and both sides of the political spectrum are too quick to decry the oth…
The Flood of Sexual Harassment Claims: No End In Sight
BCK FILE--Another week has passed with yet more women coming forward with sexual harassment allegations against a who’s who of Hollywood an…
Lawmakers to Californians: Do as We Say, Not as We Do
CAL MATTERS--With a declaration that “public servants best serve the citizenry when they can be candid and honest without reservation in co…
California: Where Orange is the New Red and School Accountability is Getting Harder to Read
EDUCATION POLITICS--Oh, California, you paradise, you far-flung western shoal, you frontier beyond purple mountains and fruited plains, you…
Robert Iger For President? To Many Democrats, the Mouse May Look Like a Louse
NEW GEOGRAPHY-Few global companies enjoy as much public good will as the Walt Disney Company. The entertainment giant regularly ranks highl…
Crossing the Pedophile Line: No Going Back
BELL VIEW-I once did a short stint at Gigi Gordon’s Post-Conviction Assistance Center. My first week on the job, Gigi dropped 80 pedophile…
Still More City Hall Real Estate Schemes and Scams
PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Question: Is the dizzy array of new zoning ordinances welling up at LA’s City Hall really intended to address LA’s twin…
Venice Blvd: ‘Vision Zero’ is Being Exploited and Won't Save a Single Life!
ALPERN AT LARGE--Vision Zero (and, to a very large degree, Great Streets) are first-rate, meritorious efforts that have the ability to impr…
Are Dems Going Through Another Party Takeover … Only This Time in California?
EASTSIDER-I just finished reading Donna Brazille’s book Hacked, and she did not say that the election was “rigged” against Bernie. What she…
Jerry Brown: ‘I’ve Talked Enough, I Want To Get Something Done’
CAL MATTERS--The camera and lights switched on and Ole Torp, the Charlie Rose of Norway, leaned in, silver hair flashing, and posed his fir…
The Question is: Who Believes LAPD Chief Charlie Beck?
PREVEN REPORT--During the past few years, according to a federal lawsuit filed last year by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, four…
How Soon? How Much? The Missing Pieces of the 50-year Environmental Battle
AT LENGTH-On Nov. 2, the joint commissions at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach voted unanimously to approve the Clean Air Action Pla…
Waiting for the Bomb: What LA can Learn from South Korea
CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--Can Californians learn to be as cool as Koreans in the face of nuclear annihilation?
Whistleblower Cop Exposes Another Garcetti, Beck Failure
@THE GUSS REPORT- If the lawsuit filed last week by diminutive LAPD Captain Lillian Carranza was a stand-alone story, the title of today’s…
