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Los Angeles Measure C – That’s C as in Cynical!
THE BUTCHER SHOP-Measure C? Charter reform of the police disciplinary system? On the May 16 runoff ballot? Seriously? Wonder why people are so cynical?
Right now, the improvements made by the LAPD in the 25 years since those scary nights…
What LA Politicians Would Rather Not Discuss: The Gentrifying of Los Angeles?
MCDONALD REPORT-From neighborhood activists to city planners, everyone knows that Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council love…
Say it Ain’t So, Joe.
BELL’S VIEW--The other day a video posted on Facebook drew my attention. In it, a motorcycle moves in slow motion toward the middle of an i…
The Meaning of Bodacious Mendacity: CA Senator Bradford’s Bill to Keep ‘Lifers’ in Office
EASTSIDER-Mendacity is generally defined as “an act of not telling the truth.” It also has a bunch of helpful synonyms, like deceit, decept…
The 1992 LA Civil Disturbance: Can’t We All Just Stop the Spin?
RACE RIOT OR NOT?-The 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance is at hand, and the corporate media again routinely portra…
Serving Their Corporate Masters: No ‘Full Disclosure’ in KPCC LAUSD Pension Reporting
EDUCATION POLITICS-One of the most disturbing and regrettable trends in today's news reporting is the systematic and often premeditated fai…
25 Years After Rodney King, CA Judicial Misconduct Still Not Fixed
CORRUPTION WATCH-Twenty-five years after the 1992 LA Insurrection, we are deluged by retrospectives and analyses. Many of them are excellen…
Driving Alone Hits a High in ‘Post-Car’ City of Los Angeles
TRAFFIC WATCH--According to The New York Times, the car used to be “king” in the city (municipality) of Los Angeles. “'A Different Los Ange…
Ellis Act Evictions Now in City Council Crosshairs
DEEGAN ON LA-One of the city’s under-publicized scandals is the long-running shotgun marriage between city council members and developers u…
How about a Resistance March to the Polls? Speak Up! Our Thoughts!
KEY RACE VOTER GUIDE--The many resistance marches in this ‘speak up’ era make me optimistic and are encouraging, but what about increasing…
Is LAUSD's $24 Million Universal Enrollment System another Tech Boondoggle?
EDUCATION POLITICS--LAUSD keeps trying to put its technology demons behind it. But the ghost of tech projects past is still haunting. Yeste…
LA Knowingly Loses Millions of Dollars Each Year … Here’s How
@THE GUSS REPORT-Say hello to Judi, a perfect dog I rescued from the deadly Los Angeles Animal Service’s East Valley shelter several years…
On Immigration, the LA Times Editorial Board Never Fails to Distort Reality
LEANING RIGHT--May Day! May Day! The LA Times Editorial Board gets it wrong again, and shreds both its credibility and subscribing member…
Red Flag Warning: Prop HHH Funds for the Homeless Keep Slipping Through City Hall’s Hands
THE PREVEN REPORT--Those of you who voted for Proposition HHH, the $1.2 billion homelessness-reduction bond measure which passed in Novembe…
The Art of Disruption in a Time of Division
AT LENGTH-It was some 25 years ago when I stepped into the bar at Ante’s Restaurant looking for Tony Perkov only to find my nemesis Rod Dec…
From the Wreckage of the ’92 Riots, a Better Los Angeles Rises
GUEST WORDS--Luxury condominiums compete with foreign banks on the new skyline of Koreatown. On a Saturday night, 20-somethings crowd the s…
I Went Behind the Front Lines with the Far-Right Agitators Who Invaded Berkeley
INSIDER REPORT--Last week, as far-right political agitators made plans to descend on Berkeley, California, I heard that some members of the…
Inside California’s Immigration Wars
A SPECIAL REPORT--It’s Monday afternoon in Bellflower, a small suburb in southeastern Los Angeles County, California. Juana, 34, and a neig…
LA Sheriffs: Cop Videos Not the Whole Story
GUEST COMMENTARY--In recent years' videos of law enforcement in action have become commonplace. Departments have adopted video cameras to r…
LA’s Climate Change March is Saturday in Wilmington … Keep LA’s Skies Blue … Be There!
PLATKIN ON PLANNING--If your email box is like mine, it is filled with invitations to Saturday’s Climate Change march and rally in Wilmingt…
