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The Mayor’s Indecent Proposal: An All-Overtime LAPD Force to Guard Metro
ILLOGICAL LIABILITY-Even as editorial boards across the city have been falling all over each other in a race to endorse Eric Garcetti for a second term, the Mayor has been busy sowing the seeds for LA's next budget-busting liability fiasco…
Making LA Great Again—Not! Trump Could Cost LA County Tourism $736M!
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Since his first day in office, Trump and his team have fired off a series of Executive Orders, including aggressive im…
LA’s Beavis and Butt-Head Love Affair with Alt-Facts and Cat Videos
MEOW MIX-Last Thursday, February 16, 2017, two cars were swallowed up in a giant sinkhole in Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Studio City. Many w…
How Jerry Will Keep the Trumpster from Seizing California’s National Guard
CALBUZZ EXCLOO--Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration, alarmed by a report of a draft plan to mobilize 100,000 National Guard troops to round u…
‘Back to Basics’: City Hall Ignored Deadly Tree Warnings
@THE GUSS REPORT-All manner of emergencies arose during Friday’s torrential rainstorm, including car-swallowing sinkholes, swift-water resc…
Why LA Needs a Strong Planning Process and Measure S is Essential
PLATKIN ON PLANNING-My support for Measure S did not just drop off a turnip truck. It is based on my long career as a city planner. This in…
They Go Low. We Go Local!
RESISTANCE---Right now, the most effective political action we can take is local. Not Congressional District local: school board local, sta…
The Coalition for Economic Survival Says No On ‘Measure S’
GUEST COMMENTARY-The Coalition for Economic Survival (CES) believes Measure S threatens to delay or stop projects that would otherwise prov…
Surprise! Proposed Miracle Mile HPOZ Upended By David Ryu and Mayor Garcetti
DEEGAN ON LA-What had seemed to be a done deal, subject to City Council approval, is now being treated by Councilmember David Ryu (CD4) lik…
Resistance: Some Call It Treason, or What's an Indivisible To Do?
GELFAND’S WORLD--The local chapter of Indivisible met last week. As you may recall, this is the grass roots reaction to the Trump administr…
California's New Job One: Make America Great Again
CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--California is already on the defensive in its battle with Donald Trump. Our state needs an offense—now. (Photo above…
Beware! LA has Its Own Alt-Facts
CORRUPTION WATCH-Thank you Donald Trump for alerting us to a deadly serious problem: Alt-Facts. We are accustomed to Alt-Facts being sprink…
City Hall has Ignored the Law and Failed to Update the City’s General Plan for Years … Why Should We Trust Them Now?
PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Whether LA voters adopt or reject Measure S, the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, on March 7, the Planning Departmen…
Education and Jobs - What Happened To My California?
EASTSIDER--I know I keep mentioning that I’m a third generation Californian in these columns. I do it mostly because I have at best a tenuo…
Getting What You Pay For
EDUCATION POLITICS--Is it true there are LAUSD board candidates “supported by” Betsy DeVos?
Recently this very central, very arresting que…
Grass Roots Political Action ... Not just Noise
MY TURN-We have a Primary Election on March 7 and will probably see an underwhelming turnout. Maybe it’s because we are still exhausted fro…
Promises, Promises from LA City Hall … Mostly Empty or Just Half True
RANTZ & RAVEZ-The “Safe Sidewalks LA” program is another example of how City Hall deals with issues impacting the quality of life in Lo…
LA’s City Council Rushing to Implement ‘Measure S’ … Here’s Why
ALPERN AT LARGE--I really feel for those Angelenos getting pummeled between the pro- and anti-Measure S arguments and literature. Why woul…
Congressman Cárdenas: We Were Asked “What Gang are You a Member of?”
GUEST WORDS--Right after I graduated college something happened to me that has happened to many other Latino men but few other Members of C…
Redline Reminder: We’re All In This Together
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Those who gripe about our city characterize Angelenos as firmly sequestered in our bubbles or in our Priuses or SUVs…
