LOS ANGELES

CAL MATTERS--Not too many years ago, when California’s government appeared to be totally dysfunctional, some reform-minded folks considered sponsoring a broad overhaul of the state’s governance structure.

@THE GUSS REPORT-Little did anyone on the Los Angeles-area golf course that day know that the middle-aged duffer among them was a senior level United States Secret Service agent except, perhaps, for some of those in his entourage. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--This is the month in which everyone who is not a dyed in the wool Trump defender has been asking what Putin has on Trump.

URBAN PERSPECTIVE--On the one year anniversary of the death of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore at the West Hollywood home of Democratic donor Ed Buck, Moore’s family, friends and advocates will renew their calls for justice and for criminal charges to be filed against Buck.

ALPERN AT LARGE--It's Metro's job to explore ALL routes in its expanding rail network, and the era is over as to wondering whether or not certain key rail lines will occur.

BCK FILE--Los Angeles lost a treasure this past weekend.

CORRUPTION WATCH-Traditionally, Western Civilization has detested lying and perjury.

EDUCATION POLITICS-Sixty-four years after the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education,declaring that "Separate but equal...is inherently unequal,"

Donald Trump and the Republican Party, increasingly his subsidiary, should be headed to a reckoning of historic proportions.

PERSPECTIVE-Tech giant Amazon.com is considering the City of Los Angeles for its second North American headquarters, which could eventually employ 50,000 people.

CORRUPTION WATCH-Senator John McCain’s condemnation of Trump’s fawning over Vladimir Putin was mild when one considers the utter humiliation and degradation which Trump bought upon the United States.

GELFAND’S WORLD--After WWII, behavioral scientists concerned with how fascism arose in Europe tried various methods of testing people for authoritarian tendencies.

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-In Los Angeles, like other large U.S. cities, residents and visitors are forced to make many sacrifices, most justified by public officials’ claims that local budgets are tight.

VOICES--Good Luck, if you are middle class and searching for a new place to live in this City of “Angels”.

It may be en vogue among a certain group to express concern about the influence of Russian oligarchs within our political system,

EASTSIDER-I know, it sounds like some crazed lefty conspiracy theory, but hear me out before you rush to judgment. I have a theory ... about that Military.

BALLOT CHANGE--The California Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to block a ballot initiative to split the state into three parts after the measure had gathered enough signatures to put it before the voters in November.

@THE GUSS REPORT-The devil is in the details at the new era Los Angeles / El Segundo Times, as it stumbles to prove it has a journalistic pulse.

HUFF POST--Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday did not deny that the Russian government may have “compromising material” about President Donald Trump and his family.

GUEST COMMENTARY--Many residents in the 13th Council District were affected by a loss of power in last week’s extreme heatwave coupled with inadequate communication from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).

BCK FILE--During the first few months of Eric Garcetti’s second term last year, the mayor had spent an average of one in three days outside the state and the country.