VOICES

CORPORATE LANDLORD - While millions of renters struggle to make ends meet, corporate landlord Stephen Schwarzman, whose company spent mountains of cash to successfully kill rent control ballot measures in California, has bought another multi-million-dollar mansion, according to a news report.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - One of the first things a newly-elected President Joe Biden did was to kill the Keystone pipeline,

EDUCATION - Who would have imagined that after the past two tumultuous years, when so much was written and said about how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had convinced American parents that public schools were “failing” institutions, that as the 2022-2023 school year begins, “Americans’ ratings of their community’s public schools reached a new high dating back 48 years.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - When I came to LA 40 years ago---LA was an energetic, happening place--full of life--vibrant--entrepreneurial--with limitless possibilities---and there was a sense of joy throughout the city--- 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The decision to “suspend” Councilmember Ridley-Thomas last October 2021, continues to cast a growing cloud over the governance of the nation’s second largest city and the leadership of its fifteen-member City Council.

POLICY - Years before his 1987 best-seller, The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicled New York society and politics, novelist Tom Wolfe chronicled another venue of political theatre and vanities bonfire: the anti-poverty programs funded under the federal government’s War on Poverty.

GUEST COMMENTARY - We're all in this thing together.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Predator, scammer, religious bigot, liar, bully, briber, developer are a few of the faces which Rick Caruso has revealed to Angelenos, and none of them are good. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - The Keith Raniere case is another example of our justice agencies acting against the best interest of common sense, common decency and “we the people”.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Everyone acknowledges that there is a huge homelessness problem in California.

MY THOUGHTS - I ALWAYS LOVED THAT OPENING LINE FROM JOAN RIVERS. It sounded like we were asked to have coffee together.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Good intentions do not always lead to Hell.