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Written by Richard Lee Abrams on September 21 2017. Posted in LOS ANGELES.

What if Angelenos Stopped Paying the Wall Street Tax?

Our absurdly high housing costs are not caused by a demand for more housing. In fact, based on the actual data, the demand for housing is decreasing while housing costs are increasing. This phenomenon is not new to economics. Fraud and cor…

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Written by Caitlin Cruz on September 21 2017. Posted in LOS ANGELES.

Women of Color are Again Creating the Culture … This Time It's for Cannabis

"When I first told my dad [that] I want to cover cannabis and he was like, 'What's that?' I said the Chinese word for marijuana and then he was like, 'Ohh,'" Zhang tells me. "Neither of them knew much about cannabis or drugs before I [talk…

LA Demolition Derby: The Westside is Winning the Race to Make Room for New Housing

Written by Tim Deegan on September 18 2017.

Disaster Preparedness in LA: Will Government Agency Turf Wars Get Some of Us Killed?

Written by Bob Gelfand on September 18 2017.

Did New California State Bar Boss Cheat on Bar Rules?

Written by Daniel Guss on September 18 2017.

Eastside CA Assembly Race: Foul Smell of Money from Big Oil has Set Off Some Alarms

Written by Ruby DeVera on September 18 2017.

Fool's Gold: In the Golden State, We're NOT So Educated ... or Open-Minded!

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on September 18 2017.

How to Deal with an Age of Disasters …California has Some Lessons to Teach

Written by Joel Kotkin on September 18 2017.

LAUSD Prez Ref Rodriguez Charged with Money Laundering … Here’s the Complete Story

Written by Mike Szymanski on September 18 2017.

Los Angeles: De-Densify or Die

Written by Richard Lee Abrams on September 18 2017.

NC Congress Report: ‘Developers have City Council’s Ear,’ ‘Nobody at City Hall is Listening to the People’

Written by Connie Acosta on September 18 2017.

New Law Eliminating Lifelong Registration for Convicted Sex Offenders Heads for Brown’s OK

Written by Beth Cone Kramer on September 18 2017.

Pulling the Plug on CA’s Community College Baccalaureate Program is Short-Sighted

Written by Dan Walters on September 18 2017.

The 3 Americans Who Should Pay for Medicare-for-All

Written by Paul Boucheit on September 18 2017.

Another Big Real Estate ‘Big Bamboozle’: ‘Infill Development Halts Climate Change’

Written by Dick Platkin on September 14 2017.

How LA’s Skid Row Got Screwed: Neighborhood Council Grievance Panels are a Fraud!

Written by Tony Butka on September 14 2017.

LA’s Loyal Donkey Taxpayers

Written by Dennis Zine on September 14 2017.

Mar Vista: Different Views on Traffic but In Agreement on Transparency

Written by Kenneth S. Alpern on September 14 2017.

Mariachis Struggle Under Gentrification - LA Times Drops the Ball

Written by Patrick Range McDonald on September 14 2017.

People of Color have been Training for Donald Trump Their Whole Lives

Written by David Bell on September 14 2017.

Shocker! LA Pension Gap Spirals Past $10 Billion

Written by Marc Joffe on September 14 2017.

LA DWP #2 (Pay Your Bill Help)

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