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Pot Calls Kettle Racist
The latest union freak-out started with an event on “school vouchers and racism” hosted by the American Federation of Teachers and the Center for American Progress, a leftist research and advocacy organization which is financially suppo…
Stop Throwing People Under the Bus
MASS TRANSIT TALK-A disturbing phrase has taken hold in the American vernacular. It needs to stop. “Thrown under the bus,” is used to descr…
The Scales of Justice – Tipped Against Immigrants
JUSTICE--Immigrants across the country are facing what appears to be a swelling tide of xenophobia and anti-immigration sentiment in spite…
Tick. Tick. Tick. Clock is Ticking for Dems … Can’t Vote if Not Registered
GELFAND’S WORLD--As a Californian, I take it for granted that I can show up at my precinct on election day and pick up a ballot without fir…
Zoom! LA’s SpaceX has Alternative to California’s High-Speed Rail … Sacto Not Listening!
A HYPER-FUTURE-Since Elon Musk introduced hyperloop in 2012, several startups have been formed to commercialize the technology. Hyperloop i…
Where Does LA Rank Among 150 Best-Run U.S. Cities?
MY TURN-This is kind of a segue from my last article "Not in My Back Yard" for which we received many comments. One of my more constant cri…
The Lies Behind the Selling of Props 47 & 57
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES-Politics will never exist without spin doctors. Yet, as cynical as our political system has become, recent ballot m…
The King of Hate
BELL VIEW--Hate. It’s everywhere these days. When Carlos Hakas overturned an immigrant street vendor’s food cart in a fit of rage over a sl…
No, Gentrification Doesn’t Just Happen … City Hall Promotes It at Every Turn
PLATKIN ON PLANNING--In an editorial critical of the pushback against gentrification in Boyle Heights, the Los Angeles Times portrays gentr…
Lies and Myths: How LA’s ‘Smart Planning’ Big Wigs Rule our World
CORRUPTION WATCH-Which is more important, data or propaganda? Answer: data…because it provides a map of reality. Then again, propaganda is…
LAUSD Still Believes that Minority Students Can’t Learn
EDUCATION POLITICS--While it remains politically correct to say Black and Latino students can learn, there's a little problem. Those runnin…
Is Adelanto California’s Guantanamo?
PERSPECTIVE--If you take Interstate 15 about two hours north from Los Angeles, heading into the high desert of San Bernardino County, you’l…
CalPERS: Investments Up, Governance Down … for the Count
EASTSIDER-CalPERS recently trumpeted that they got an 11.2% return on investments this year, which should make everyone feel good about the…
California: Amid the Blaring Headlines, Routine Reports of Hate-Fueled Violence
PROPUBLICA REPORT--Last Wednesday, July 19, was something of a busy news day. There was word North Korea was making preparations for yet an…
Biker Lives Matter
THE PREVEN PAPER--At its Vision Zero community update this coming Saturday at Loyola Marymount University, the Los Angeles City Department…
California Needs to Cap the Growth of Runaway Pensions
REFORM ROUND ROBIN-California’s previous attempts at pension reform have had a negligible impact. We should look to solutions from other s…
Do HOA’s and Neighborhood Councils Guarantee Level Freedom-of-Speech Playing Fields?
GELFAND’S WORLD--People often divide themselves into two broadly defined camps, the first of which insists on obedience to all rules, while…
Does the California Veterinary Medical Board Protect Bad Veterinarians?
@THE GUSS REPORT-This article is a bell that the California Department of Consumer Affairs doesn’t want to be rung about one of its 42 Boar…
Going Coastal, Using the Pledge of Allegiance as a Wedge
AT RANDOM-Coastal San Pedro Neighborhood Council’s July 10 agenda-setting meeting turned out to be a rowdy affair. Some 20 stakeholders got…
Living in a Black Lung Loft? How LA Politics and ‘Smart Planning’ Ignore Medical Science
CORRUPTION WATCH-Should politics invalidate medical science? Politicos readily allow interests of a tiny segment of society to dictate medi…
