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Free Metro? Who Pays the Billion-Dollar Bill?
August 24 2026
LOS ANGELES

Written by Eric Preven & Joshua Preven on . Posted in LOS ANGELES.
The Question is: Who Believes LAPD Chief Charlie Beck?
It was often in high profile, highly controversial cases that Chief Beck pushed for guilty verdicts—apparently as a way of placating the public. …

How Soon? How Much? The Missing Pieces of the 50-year Environmental Battle
Written by James Preston Allen on .

The Great LA City Council Salmon Run: ‘Proposed’ Planning Dept Ordinances Leap From 22 to 27 in 60 Days!
Written by Tony Butka on .

East Coast Elections Suggest West Coast GOP Will Pay a Price for Trump
Written by Ben Christopher on .

Getting Out While the Getting’s Good: Why Family Millennials Will Move Away from LA
Written by Richard Lee Abrams on .

Will a New Family of Mountain Lions Soon Be Looking for a Hollywood Hills Home?
Written by Tim Deegan on .

California NAACP Pushes for Removal of ‘Star Spangled Banner’ as National Anthem
Written by Drew Gregory Lynch on .

Los Angeles: Are Cars a Gateway ‘Drug’ to Poor Planning and Incompetent Governing?
Written by Dick Platkin on .

Tax Reform: ‘California Republicans … Have Just Been Marching Off the Cliff Like Lemmings,’
Written by Matt Fuller & Arthur Delaney on .

Bureaucracy: LAUSD Can’t Top Its High-Performing Charter Schools, So It’s Tormenting Them to Death
Written by Steven Greenhut on .

Planners, Politicians, Public: Leave Parking Out of LA’s Future at Your Own Risk
Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on .

LA Has a Homeless Housing Crisis but Short-Circuiting the Law isn’t the Answer
Written by Casey Maddren on .

Not So Clean Streets: LA City Controller Tells Us What We Already Knew
Written by Dennis P. Zine on .












