VOICES

OP/ED - As we approach election day, we see races being more hotly contested.

EDUCATION IN AMERICA - We are 68 years after the U.S. Supreme Court held in the case Brown vs. Board of Education that, "Separate but equal...was inherently unequal" ...

THE VIEW FROM HERE - We know Rick Caruso is a habitual liar who bears false witness, uses religious bigotry and defames innocent people.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Every now and then Angelenos need to lift their heads above the grime that is more in our City Hall than in our air these days, and watch the sun rise or a monarch butterfly sip nectar from a milkweed flower. 

Deegan On LA—Candidate Hydee Feldstein Soto’s take on the City Attorney job is often very different than her opponent’s views. She is less attention-seeking and more grounded.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Where was US Representative Karen Bass and other Black elected officials and activists in 2012 during the disastrous redistricting of Los Angeles’ council districts? 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Although he was not in the room during Nury Martinez’s vile rants recorded and leaked to the public last week, the specter of Mark Ridley-Thomas (MR-T) loomed large over a conversation about power, politics and representation.

MIRISCH’S MUSINGS - Erwin Chemerinsky is without question one of our country’s top legal scholars. I have admired him for over 40 years.

GREG STOLTZ, ESQ INTERVIEW - When I first broke the news of the FBI tampering of evidence to slap on “child pornography” charges on NXIVM “cult” leader Keith Raniere, no one was reporting on this.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The original “The Need For Perspicuity” appeared in a 1968 newsletter of Adelante, Inc, Mexican American Organization for Progress, in Claremont, California, addressing the need for everyone to step back and take more thoughtful looks at government and social issues.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Those who've profiteered off our homelessness crisis (and it IS a crisis) and the related affordable housing crisis have created a NEW crisis: the Homelessness Industry Crisis.

POLITICAL DIVIDE - The remarks this past August by President Biden describing former President Trump and the “extreme MAGA philosophy” as “semi-fascism” provoked predictable outrage from Republican propagandists and leaders.