VOICES

BORDER CRISIS - The long-running migrant/refugee crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border erupted again into violence on Halloween Day 2022.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - For over three hundred years maxims have circulated on why truth lags behind lies in the news; mostly as variants on this excerpt from an 1821 article describing a complicated court case: 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Karen Bass’s campaign to become Los Angeles mayor boils down to her imitation of Queen Elizabeth – wave, smile, remain above the fray. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - This was an attempted murder by a right-wing zealot propelled by the rantings of a former president and his followers, like Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, radio reactionaries like Glenn Beck, and Proud Boy lunatics.

SCOTUS - The erasure of race conscious admissions used in public and private universities began to its certain erasure today, October 31, 2022.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Elon Musk added a new toy to his collection with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. 

MY THOUGHTS - I’m sure all of us have had people in our lives who either started or steered us along a certain path. 

PROP K - Firehouse #23 is situated on 5th St., in the heart of Downtown’s Skid Row. It has seen better days.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - For years, official Los Angeles has been free of religious and ethnic bigotry. 

THE MIDTERMS - Elections are never easy to predict. But whatever the outcome of America’s Midterms next month, it does seem certain that vast swathes of the American electorate will be largely ignored.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - He. She. They.  Hey, what about We! 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Democratic leaders from the President on down are wrongfully blaming Paul Pelosi's dreadful assault (he appears to be recovering, thankfully!) on "those MAGA Republicans",