LOS ANGELES

IMMIGRATION - After a whirlwind of court actions this month, the Biden administration will be forced to restart a Trump-era border policy that trapped tens of thousands of people seeking asylum in dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited their court dates.

COVID WATCH - Since the numerous vaccines for Covid-19 were fast-tracked through trials and production in the second half of 2020 the news media have been covering their development and deployment nonstop, and as a bit of a news junkie, I’ve been reading and, mostly, watching with great interest.

THE DOTOR IS IN - For those who were and are interested in truth and history, Pravda was the famous and infamous rag that was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was founded for those who followed Leninist and one-party government in that former Soviet Union. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - As a self-described liberal who has battled against LAPD over the use of Tasers and attacked the Fire Department and Mayor for falsely scapegoating the homeless for the Skirball fire in Bel Air, I'm not the first guy you'd think of to start an Angry Landlord Organization Extraordinaire. [ALOE] There are plenty already, but mine would be soothing

VIEW FROM HERE - The threat of internal disintegration has stalked the nation from its founding.

PLANNING WATCH - Lately my in-box has included emails from local community activists dealing with “progressives” who won recent Neighborhood Council elections. 

COMMENTARY - We all have needs that have to be fulfilled, first to survive and then to achieve some degree of that ephemeral state known as happiness.

VIEW FROM HERE - Homeowners vote!   There is a no more consistent voter than a homeowner.  Is it wise for Newsom to attack homeownership? 

RANTZ & RAVEZ- Which one are you a member of: the American Independent Party, Democratic Party, Green Party, Libertarian Party, Peace and Freedom Party, Republican Party?

CALIFORNIA RECALL-With around 90% of the signatures for the Newsom Recall belonging to Republicans, it is safe to say this is a Republican recall.

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK -  Capri Maddox is leading a racial equity audit and plans to address barriers among a range of disenfranchised...not the least of whom are African Americans.    

SENIOR POLITICS - I am 72 years of age. I have lived in California most of my life. And I am urging every California senior to vote NO on the recall of Governor Gavin Newsom.

EASTSIDER - It is always challenging when a highly placed Union official also sits on a third-party pension plan. Who are they representing?

Blackwater founder Erik Prince on Wednesday faced fresh accusations of being a war profiteer in response to reporting that he's charging $6,500 per person for a seat on an evacuation flight out of Kabul.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Handing out cold water bottles is the one thing people all agree is an important component to Outreach to the homeless.

WIEW FROM HERE - Candidate Biden was centrist when he said during the campaign that the election was about “Your family,” meaning that it was not GOP or Dem, it was not Black or White, it was not the Coasts vs the Heartland. 

COMMENTARY-I have a dilemma. How can we ensure we don’t get the worst of the worst if the recall passes?

COMMENTARY - WIMBY’s (“Wall St. In My Back-Yard,” a term which was coined by Zev Yaroslavsky and Jill Stewart in TPR), density fetishists, urban supremacists, and assorted anti-housing pluralism ideologues of all stripes are increasingly sensitive about how their crusade against single-family neighborhoods almost reflexively paints them as Wall Street and developer shills. 

COMMENTARY-Washington Post released an opinion piece slamming Larry Elder’s position on minimum wage, citing 2016 poll numbers and calling $7.25 federal minimum wage “paltry.”

DEEGAN ON LA - (Number 6 in a series about Councilperson Nithya Raman (CD4).) Councilmember Nithya Raman (CD4) is not ready to “press play” on clearing out homeless encampments.

CA HOUSING POLICIES-California had a huge and growing housing problem before COVID-19 reared its ugly head 18 months ago, falling well short each year of state construction goals.