LOS ANGELES

PROPOSITION REVIEW-Before I start this article, I thought it useful for me to lay out some of my personal beliefs about Ballot Measures and Propositions at every level.

EASTSIDER-This parcel tax was around before, in 2013. That time, it failed to go on the ballot in a 3-2 vote.

VOTING IN THE VORTEX-Remember Sliding Doors, the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow movie in which the heroine’s fate heads in different directions depending on whether she does or doesn’t make it onto a subway train?

GUEST WORDS--Dana Rohrabacher, the Republican congressman from Orange County, California's 48th District, is in for the fight of his congressional life.

COSTA HAWKINS HAS TO GO-Since its founding in 2015, one of the main ongoing areas of focus of the Los Angeles Tenants Union has been the repeal of the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a 1995 law authored by a Democratic State Senator from Fresno and a Republican Assembly member from Bellflower and signed into law by Republican Governor Pete Wilson.

PLATKIN ON PLANNING - The universe that Angelinos live in. If you live, work, or visit Los Angeles, you have undoubtedly witnessed the following, and can add other categories of your own: 

GUEST COMMENTARY--The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) building in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 7, 2015. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

TREE OF LIFE--We knew it could happen here — any here, anywhere — when we learned that nine people were killed three years ago in the historic Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. We knew it could happen here — any here, anywhere — when we learned that six were killed in the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City last year. 

ALPERN AT LARGE--Again ... come November, YOU decide. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-It’s Sunday morning, October 28^th. And though the Los Angeles Dodgers face elimination in tonight’s Game 5 at Dodger Stadium against a better built and tougher Boston Red Sox team, the story might not end there.

CORRUPTION WATCH-The mass murder of Jews in Pittsburgh did not spring from the mind of one mentally ill person but arose from millennia of anti-Semitic behavior of both individuals and governments.

DEEGAN ON LA-“Distortion,” fueled by the big spending of special interests in the political campaign to fight against Prop 10 on the November 6 ballot, joins “disruption” as another political buzzword this election cycle.

ELECTION VOICES--As someone who worked her way up the ladder at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from clerk typist to the first woman General Manager in the utility’s history, I’m proud of having fought for the ratepayers and led the economic, rate, and other reforms at LADWP. 

VIEW FROM HERE-That President Trump fancies himself a nationalist is hardly news.

BCK FILE--This past Saturday, a gunman killed 11 worshippers at Tree of Life synagogue in what was the deadliest attack on Jews in US history.

GELFAND’S WORLD--As a kid, I can remember walking down to the corner one evening with my parents.

EDUCATION POLITICS--2018 has been a pivotal year for teachers. In West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, Colorado, and North Carolina, teachers walked out of their classrooms and into the streets, demanding their grievances be addressed.

PERSPECTIVE--After weeks of increasingly absurd stories, Saudi Arabia has admitted that Jamal Khashoggi—an American permanent resident, Saudi citizen, and Washington Post columnist—was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2, and Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has even said that it was premeditated, though the country still denies any high-level involvement.

GUEST COMMENTARY--The company that Los Angeles City contracts with to raise revenues by advertising in bus shelters and kiosks advises that a legal cannabis business in a legal brick and mortar store CAN NOT advertise on their street furniture. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Well, Well, the time has finally arrived for you to VOTE for candidates and ballot measures that will impact your pocketbook, family, community and the nation.

CORRUPTION WATCH-Matters have become so dire that only Pogo can rescue the Republic.