VOICES

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The sound and fury about homelessness and crime during the elections was merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. 

MIDTERM ELECTION - The result of the midterm election has caused a seriously widening fissure within the Republican party.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Despite the disapproval of most Angelenos as well as a number of national figures which must be hitting their egos hard, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo and Kevin De León are still clinging to their seats on the City Council.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Whether one thought rushes of red or a bombardment of blue would be sweeping across the country with the 2022 midterm ballots, as the final votes are being tallied the hopes of either such outcome are seen to be being dashed.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Has he no shame? Or is he so egoistic that he is forever removed from the perceptions of the rest of the universe? 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Everyone is focusing on the balance of GOP vs Dem in the House and Senate without realizing that their obsession is actually a huge warning sign that the nation is rushing towards disaster. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - As a recovering democrat forced out of a party I no longer recognize due in no small part, to an extremely combative, social media savvy and “truth- fluid” group, I found myself in an uncomfortable place.

ELECTION 2024 - A day ahead of his expected 2024 announcement, former President Donald Trump on Monday was hit with a campaign finance complaint...

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The 1950 Report of the American Political Scientist Association (APSA)’s Committee on Political Parties, “Toward a More Responsible Two-Party System,” and the idea that we are a democracy where the majority rules are the two worst ideas in American political life. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Noting that countries have been discussing a treaty banning autonomous weapons systems for nearly a decade "with no tangible results,"

NOW IN CONTROL - Since 2018, Los Angeles’ disgraced political establishment has endured five separate corruption scandals implicating seven councilmembers, the city attorney and the mayor. 

MID TERM REBOUND - While control of Congress remained unclear as of Wednesday afternoon, young voters who turned out for Democrats on Tuesday played a key role in blocking a "red wave" that had been anticipated based on previous midterm elections and widely predicted by political pollsters and pundits.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Unhappy with the election results? Wondering where we will go from here? Well, here is a theory.  Mayor Pete! 

BORDER CRISIS - The long-running migrant/refugee crisis gripping the U.S.-Mexico border erupted again into violence on Halloween Day 2022.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - For over three hundred years maxims have circulated on why truth lags behind lies in the news; mostly as variants on this excerpt from an 1821 article describing a complicated court case: 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Karen Bass’s campaign to become Los Angeles mayor boils down to her imitation of Queen Elizabeth – wave, smile, remain above the fray. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - This was an attempted murder by a right-wing zealot propelled by the rantings of a former president and his followers, like Fox News' Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, radio reactionaries like Glenn Beck, and Proud Boy lunatics.

SCOTUS - The erasure of race conscious admissions used in public and private universities began to its certain erasure today, October 31, 2022.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Elon Musk added a new toy to his collection with the $44 billion purchase of Twitter. 

MY THOUGHTS - I’m sure all of us have had people in our lives who either started or steered us along a certain path. 

PROP K - Firehouse #23 is situated on 5th St., in the heart of Downtown’s Skid Row. It has seen better days.