ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - I have delivered millions of words and at least one million too many, for sure, to CityWatch. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Hoteliers were out in force and slapped back a frothy plan to require hotels to house the homeless.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut allegedly turned to his pal Joe Heller at a party on Shelter Island, "This hedge fund manager, whose house we are in made more in a single day than you made on Catch 22 over its whole history, Joe." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Friday, there was something of a cosmic joke as Strefan Fauble, who has certainly done his fair share of the customary garrotting of public speakers in Mayor Garcetti's Temple of Democracy, seemed to have had his microphone shut down.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Who wants to be the homelessness beat reporter?   What a grim assignment. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A respected journalist, Jeff Jarvis, who identifies as a CUNY professor fired off a 19-tweet salute last week, touting the natural scarcity of quality.