LOS ANGELES

RECALL PERSPECTIVE - What started as a lark, then became an impossible dream—a conservative resurgence, starting in California—ended, like many past efforts, in electoral defeat.

A VIEW FROM HERE - The Right Wing and the Left Wing Share Two Ideas. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Just because the Republicans, Independents (and a few Democrats) chose not to recall Gavin Newsom doesn't mean that our state's problems are going away.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Homelessness*  (Us v. Them)

GELFAND'S WORLD - A substantial number of Republican voters are convinced that the presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump.

RIGHTS WRONGED - Advocates for reproductive freedom and LGTBQ+ equality on Saturday pointed to a legal brief filed in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could soon overturn Roe v. Wade as a crucial example of the broader goals of those fighting to end abortion rights across the United States.

Donald Trump will likely go down in U.S. history as one of the worst, if not most corrupt, presidents. 

ECONOMIC HEALTH - An estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Off Agenda:  RIP Norm Macdonald:

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY-In the final scene of the obscure 2004 sci fi action-adventure film “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” the heroes have tracked down the mastermind behind the unstoppable massive machines that are tearing up cities to steal power-generating infrastructure in the service of launching an improved human race.

GELFAND'S WORLD - Well, that election is now over, and instead of the subject of deep thought, it turned out to be a joke.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - The Inglewood City Council is attempting to pull a fast one on Inglewood residents.