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The Future is Here: A 100% Clean-Powered Los Angeles!
SPEAKING UP TO POWER-Every two years Anglenos have the unique opportunity to share their views on the future of LA’s energy policy during public comment on the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) 20-year Integrated Resource P…
Stern Is Firm in Senate Race; Lopez Challenging the Odds
PERSPECTIVE-Last Thursday evening, I had the pleasure of attending a debate between two gentlemen in the race to replace termed-out Fran Pa…
Real Planning in Los Angeles: Nothing more than a rickety ‘Development Process’
PLATKIN ON PLANNING--Los Angeles may have an aging, out-of-date General Plan, but it, surprisingly, does have a planning process. It might…
Putting It Together: After CalPERS’ Board and Staff, Who ‘Runs the Train’?
PLAYING WITH CALPERS (PART 3)--Now that we have examined the who’s who of CalPERS Board and Staff in my previous CityWatch articles, how do…
Propositions, Measures, Referenda, Annoying … Call Them What You Want, It’s How Citizens Make Laws in California
THE EPPERHART REPORT--Propositions, initiatives, measures, referenda, annoying – call them what you will, but they have been an integral pa…
Jobs and the Economy: Can California Catch the Next Tech Wave?
NEW GEOGRAPHY--The consumer technology boom, largely responsible for a resurgence in California’s economy after the tech wreck of 2001, see…
How Feudalism has Bred Corruption in LA
CORRUPTION WATCH-While we know that Lord Acton was correct in 1887 when he said power tends to corrupt and we also acknowledge that corrupt…
California Prison Sentences Don’t Work … Now Is the Time to Change the Rules I Helped Make
PROP 57 … RESTORING DISCRETION IN SENTENCING-Just how much discretion should we give to officialdom when sentencing people to prison for cr…
California Divided: Why Prison Guards are Backing the Death Penalty
DEATH PENALTY POLITICS--Of the 17 propositions on this year’s California ballot, few are as divisive as the issue of capital punishment. Th…
Court Rules: Save the Seals
PLANET WATCH--Despite living in the Arctic in a time of unprecedented climate change, the bearded seal is doing okay: the International Uni…
Anne Gust Brown for Attorney General
CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--Gov. Jerry Brown’s best choice for attorney general – an appointment he must make after Kamala Harris’ election to t…
LA City Council Conned Again on Granny Flats- When Will They Learn?
LA’S NEIGHBORHOODS--Once again, the City Attorney’s office and the Planning Department have played the City Council for fools. This time ar…
Measure M: The Winning Argument in a Nutshell
ALPERN AT LARGE--There's something to be said for supporting a winning argument, and recognizing losing arguments when you see them. In th…
LAT Should be Ashamed! Times-USC Daybreak Poll Dishonors the Paper!
CALBUZZ--Despite Nate Silver’s argument that we should leave the LA Times/USC Dornsife “Daybreak Poll” alone, this poor excuse for a survey…
LA County Supes: Corruptionblind
VOICES--When it comes to public/private partnerships, the past four months have been a mixed bag for Milwaukee Bucks’ co-owner and recently…
“If We Appear to Seek the Unattainable … We Do So to Avoid the Unimaginable”-Tom Hayden, Dead at 76
DEMOCRACY REMEMBERED--The writer, politician, and anti-war activist Tom Hayden died yesterday at the age of 76, a year and a half after suf…
How Eric Garcetti Falsified 8,807 Pet Adoptions and Worse
@THE GUSS REPORT-In May 2014, the City of Los Angeles significantly doctored its pet adoption statistic without telling the public that it…
Hey Southland Voters: Can You Pass This Stoopid Test?
GUEST WORDS-First let me declare that I am a liberal and a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party. And I have voted for most tax increa…
Are Hollywood Neighborhoods Falling Down a Rabbit Hole? Help Stop Developers’ Modern Day Gold Rush!
VOICES OF THE PEOPLE--Councilmember David Ryu’s recent letter to the City’s Planning Land Use Management committee (PLUM) stating he cannot…
Young Mexican Pitcher Showing America ‘What We’re Made Of’
LATINO PERSPECTIVE--Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump called Mexican immigrants rapist, and criminals but in reality very few…
