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Human Compassion in Short Supply in LA’s City Council Chambers

CITY HALL--The vast majority of Angelenos who show up at LA City Council meetings to address their representatives have never been there be…

Fraudulent LAFD Inspections: How Much Did the Mayor Know and When Did He Know It?

@THE GUSS REPORT-One month ago my CityWatch article exposed how Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti threw under the bus a veteran Los Angeles F…

Exposed: Hahn Operative Trolls CityWatch

@THE GUSS REPORT-“This is Ground Control to Janice Hahn.…” Immediately hire the person who for several hours last week posted voluminous, d…

Decision 2016: How We Spend Our Tax Dollars … More Important Than Ever Before

ALPERN AT LARGE--As mentioned in a previous CityWatch article, the need to figure out what to spend our tax dollars on is as critical as ev…

Are You Embracing New Urbanism Yet? What Are You Waiting For?

DEEGAN ON LA-Think for a minute about how much time you spend each day in your car, moving about from home to work, to shop, to play, and t…

Vin Scully Makes Me Cry

GUEST WORDS—(Editor’s Note: This column was posted on Sunday, October 2, the day of Vin Scully’s final broadcast.) It is October 2, 2016. …

Trump: Boxed In, Wrapped Up, Labeled

GELFAND’S WORLD--The working press tends to look for each election's storyline, and then beats on it ad infinitum. Those of a certain age w…

SoCal Part of the Blue Shoots Black Epidemic … Zianna Oliphan: “We Shouldn’t Have Tears”

GUEST COMMENTARY--Jesus. On Tuesday, America's trigger-happy police shot dead another unarmed man, this time in El Cajon in Southern Califo…

Secret Meeting Alert … Is LA’s City Council Trying to End-Run Thousands of Neighborhood Integrity Initiative Petition Signers?

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE-Friday, September 30, the LA City Council will convene to either place the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative on the Mar…

Pension Reform: The ‘Times’ Are Right

PERSPECTIVE-Both the New York Times and LA Times have recently published informative articles about the status of public pensions, particul…

Miracle Mile’s Death Row

ROAD DIET RAGE--I have had the misfortune to be elected to the board of my local Neighborhood Council, which is involved in promoting a roa…

Metro Needs 2 More Years to Perfect its Plan – Vote No on Measure M

GUEST COMMENTARY--Metro’s Measure M on the November ballot adds LA County’s fourth half-cent transportation sales tax increase since 1980…

Latino Children are Under Attack Again … Vote NO on Prop 58

ELECTION 2016--There are a few obvious truths in our 21st Century, "small world after all" nation and globe.  One is that speaking only one…

Jerry Brown Gets Pushy with LA City Council … On Granny Flats Rules

EASTSIDER-It’s not often that the great State of California intrudes in the LA City Council’s wholesale slaughter of our neighborhoods, par…

Gridlock: Not New to LA

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles still has the worst traffic congestion of any major city in the United…

2016 NC Congress Sizzles! A Pleasant Surprise!

MY TURN-I approached the 6th Annual 2016 Congress of Neighborhoods with a certain amount of skepticism. I had been to the five previous one…

There’s a Lot to Like: Yes on Measure M

STREETSBLOG LA ENDORSES-There is a lot to like about Measure M, the Los Angeles County sales tax that would fund a mix of transit and other…

The Ugly Truth: The Only Way to Avoid More Westside (and Other) LA Overdevelopment

ALPERN AT LARGE-This is an ugly article to write … and to read … but we're dealing with the aftermath of the City Council approval of the M…

State Must Get Involved … Invest in Short-term Relief for Homeless Angelenos

GUEST COMMENTARY--The state cannot continue to ignore the fact that homelessness in Los Angeles has reached critical mass.  Growing public…

 

 

 

 

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