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LA City Council and City Controller: Judge & Jury In A Case Not Yet Heard In Federal Court?
Council President Nury Martinez continues to govern like a feudal lord, as if the Council is her personal fiefdom, she operates with politics of intimidation. In doing so, she takes big-City politics to a new level of “low” and makes a moc…
Rick Caruso’s Many Facets
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Predator, scammer, religious bigot, liar, bully, briber, developer are a few of the faces which Rick Caruso has reveal…
CAN WE TALK?
MY THOUGHTS - I ALWAYS LOVED THAT OPENING LINE FROM JOAN RIVERS. It sounded like we were asked to have coffee together.
Parents Like Their Public Schools, No Matter How Much the Charter School Movement Tells Them Not To
EDUCATION - Who would have imagined that after the past two tumultuous years, when so much was written and said about how the impact of the…
The Bonfires Of The Vanities: Then And Now
POLICY - Years before his 1987 best-seller, The Bonfire of the Vanities chronicled New York society and politics, novelist Tom Wolfe chroni…
Keith Raniere Child Pornography Trial. Report of Evidence Tampering by Feds to Help Secure Conviction of the Cult Leader
GUEST COMMENTARY - The Keith Raniere case is another example of our justice agencies acting against the best interest of common sense, comm…
Will Evergrande and Oceanwide Failures Further Fissure LA’s Budget?
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Abandoned high-rises and homeless encampments on the streets of downtown are not selling Los Angeles as the best Olympic…
Taking Aim at the Second Amendment
GUEST COMMENTARY - It is long past time to repeal the Second Amendment. Why?
Across the US, Movements Continue to Rise Up to End Rent Control Bans
HOUSING WATCH - Across the United States, grassroots movements continue to rise up to end statewide rent control bans.
If Good Intentions Pave The Roadway To Hell, Then Voting Is Its Super-Highway
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Good intentions do not always lead to Hell.
Controlled by Right-Wing Justices, US Supreme Court's Approval Hits All-Time Low
SUPREME IN JUSTICE - Adults in the United States say they lack trust in the federal government's judicial branch and nearly three-fifths d…
The Able Archer Nuclear Test: “The Greatest Intelligence Failure in U.S. History”
AN ALMOST MISFIRE - It was an intelligence failure of a scope to vastly exceed all others, when one nuclear superpower perceived the other…
Nuclear War and Moral Sanity
NUCLEAR DISASTER - What does surrender look like in the world of geopolitics?
Open-air Drug Markets, Overdoses, Rampant Crime – Many Americans Have Just Given Up
GUEST COMMENTARY - Many Americans seem to be giving up.
An Advocate’s Almanac of Commonsense on Anti-Bias Issues
ACCORDING TO LIZ - Are you tired of being told to post your pronouns? I am.
College Debt Is the Tip of the Iceberg
COLLEGE DEBT - President Joe Biden recently instituted a program to forgive some of the student debt that plagues approximately 45 million…
The Revenge of the Material Economy
GUEST COMMENTARY - America’s narrow escape last week from a major rail-worker strike brought home an important truth: people who make and s…
Why do Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, and Neil deGrasse Tyson All Support Nuclear Power?
THE DOCTOR IS IN - The time really MUST sooner or later arrive when we can speak truth to power...and I don't mean those who think that fos…
Avoiding a War without a Winner: How we Could Ease the Deadly US-China Dispute
GUEST COMMENTARY - In a world haunted by the specter of nuclear war, needlessly aggressive competition among nations could lead to an apoca…
Sheriff Alex Villanueva is Stuck in the 1950's
THE VIEW FROM HERE - During the debate on September 21, 2022, Sheriff Alex Villanueva showed that he is out of step with Los Angeles.
