LOS ANGELES

GUEST COMMENTARY--On October 21, LA City Councilmembers Blumenfield, Buscaino, Rodriguez, Krekorian, Price, Cedillo, and Lee presented a motion to drastically expand the criminalization and banishment of unhoused Angelenos across the city.

PERSPECTIVE-Should the state override the zoning preferences of local communities?

AFFORDABLE HOUSING-We need more affordable housing.

VIEW FROM HERE--While we love to flatter ourselves by intoning inane platitudes, the two greatest dangers for America are Faith and Democracy run amuck.

LEANING RIGHT-Being liberal should be, to all extents and purposes, "open-minded to all ideas, new and old".

DECISION 2020--Over the last several months, the real estate industry has shelled out nearly $84 million in campaign cash to kill California’s Proposition 21.

DECISION 2020-I began working on issues of homelessness fifteen years ago out of necessity.

SPECIAL REPORT--The drug store giant’s CEO has been cutting corners while rewarding himself handsomely.

PLANNING WATCH-Letters-to-the-editor often present political viewpoints that newspapers usually keep under wraps.

@THE GUSS REPORT-What would you do if a veterinarian encouraged you to kill your cat but didn’t provide life-saving services for which they billed, falsely claimed urine on her coat indicated jaundice and shockingly discouraged you from being there when the cat’s life is taken at their recommendation? 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Let’s not talk about the current president today. By the time this appears, the final presidential debate will (presumably) have finished.

EASTSIDER-LA County Measure R was a good beginning, and November’s Measure J just might be the right expansion. 

GUEST WORDS--Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, streaming on Netflix, is entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny.

LEANING RIGHT--There's a reason or three why so many Californians, be they Republican, Democratic, or Independent, are leaving our big cities and even our Once-Golden State: 

TAX POLITICS-Want to know where the 2020 presidential election is heading? Don’t obsess about the polls. Pay attention to tax lawyers and accountants.

VIEW FROM HERE--The two main groups which attack America’s core value of “Liberty to all” are the Democrats and the Republicans. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially! 

DOUBLESPEAK-From Los Angeles Department of City Planning Director Vince Bertoni: “As public servants who inform land use, we face a pivotal moment in time where we reflect on the social, political and economic injustices that have challenged our Black, Indigenous and communities of color for generations.” 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Thanks to everyone who stuck with it, starting on that awful day after the 2016 election.

LEANING RIGHT--Without hesitation, I think that--at the time they were promoted--raising the sales tax for transportation made sense.

VIEW FROM HERE--Whether we know it or not we are all plagued by a sentence in Barry Goldwater’s statement in his 1994 acceptance speech. Goldwater said: