LEANING RIGHT--While there are many Americans who are--first and foremost--thankful for the results of the long-awaited 2020 election, we're still entering a REAL "second wave" of the COVID-19 pandemic and a nation where huge numbers doubt or even reject the veracity of the election results.
GUEST WORDS--Covid in America is so bad that more than 250,000 people are dead.
RANTZ & RAVEZ--I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving 2020 this past Thursday. Like many of you, I remember in past years when family and friends gathered together for the annual Thanksgiving Feast.
PLANNING WATCH--Even though Los Angeles has a nearly perfect climate, fall is best time to plant new trees and save LA’s existing trees.
MY TURN--So here’s an odd, mostly overlooked scrap of recent news: Donald Trump wants to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq before he leaves office, and is expected to announce a drawdown of troops in both countries.
@THE GUSS REPORT-Yes, it’s another salacious and embarrassing Eric Garcetti lie debunked in broad daylight just as Joe Biden mulls over options for his Presidential Cabinet and close advisors.
GELFAND’S WORLD--Sunday, November 22, 2020 -- Los Angeles, California -- I wonder how many of my peers happened to glance at the date and got the cold chills.
LA WATCHDOG--Despite the fact that Los Angeles is facing a $700 million “budget gap” this year, our cash starved City has managed to blow an estimated $250 million in its effort to overcome union objections to the planned furloughs for 15,000 civilian employees.
CLIMATE POLITICS-Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title: Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
GUEST COMMENTARY-In this age of Trumpistic double-speak and alternate facts, we need to take a closer look at our history and begin to understand how evil has come to be memorialized in our culture.
VIEW FROM HERE--With President-elect Biden set to enter the White House next January, a question many people are asking is how best to use President Obama in the next administration?
EDUCATION POLITICS- Under the current interpretation of PROP-39, charter schools can demand space from public schools to implement their programs.
420 FILE-The year 2020 has proven the old adage to be true, that the only consistent thing in life is change.
GUEST COMMENTARY-Ooof. The bonkers clown show keeps spiraling further out there.
NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-The City of Los Angeles is in the middle of not one but multiple emergencies.
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Supremes Making Move to Kill LGBTQ Parenthood
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MEDIA WATCH--The United States Supreme Court is taking unusual steps that could start the unraveling of marriage equality. The newly conservative court waited until far-right Justice Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed before considering a case involving whether same-sex couples have the same right to presumed parenthood that opposite-sex couples do..
Barrett’s first major case after being confirmed involved LGBTQ rights and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have recently decried the Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, saying it should be overturned.
Slate documents the strange twists and turns the case, originally filed in 2017, has taken to get before the Court. Similar cases have been shot down by lower courts and the Supreme Court itself previously.
