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The Midterms: Was It A Miracle Or Just A Dodged Bullet?
Was it dodging a bullet or achieving a miracle? Without resorting to old cliches about half full glasses, I would suggest that holding the Senate was a dodged bullet and also a half-miracle. Let's consider the lessons that turned out to be…
Making Sense of the Election, and Other Things
GELFAND’S WORLD - That red wave or, as I preferred to call it, the red tide, failed to appear on Election night.
Some Useful Choices I Wish We Had on the Ballot
GELFAND’S WORLD - There is very little left to say about this election. Caruso has run another umpteen million dollars worth of television…
LA City Council Up For Grabs
GELFAND’S WORLD - For the first time in maybe forever, Los Angeles will resemble a European parliamentary democracy for a few weeks.
Republicans Threaten to Cut Off Aid to Ukraine
GELFAND’S WORLD - While we've been squabbling over who is to blame for inflation and gas prices, the Ukraine War has mostly been ignored on…
Score Card for City Council Members. Not Looking Good.
GELFAND’S WORLD - The phone rang in the late afternoon. It was another campaign call for a local City Council candidate. This was the third…
Resignations. Then What? And CA AG to Investigate Redistricting
GELFAND’S WORLD - What's the over-under for Kevin de Leon's resignation? One colleague of mine has it down for Friday.
Is There A Prosecutable Case Against LA’s Redistricting Based On The Martinez-De Leon-Cedillo Meeting?
GELFAND’S WORLD - So these are the people who want me to take mandatory training about my implicit bias.
What CA Prop 29 is About
GELFAND’S WORLD - Proposition 29 has little going for it other than it has the support of the California Democratic Party and of the union…
Proposition 27 Is Another Con. Vote NO On Both the Sports Betting Initiatives.
GELFAND’S WORLD - Television advertising on ballot initiatives has one strange characteristic. The ads never tell you exactly what it is th…
A Respite From All the Doom and Gloom
GELFAND’S WORLD - A hard piece to write, because it ultimately comes down to excitement over a wonderful production with only two performan…
Prop 26: The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth
GELFAND’S WORLD - My television set is full of ads supporting or opposing the dueling gambling initiatives on the ballot, known as Proposit…
Saturday's Congress, Everything You Need to Know About How LA Runs
GELFAND’S WORLD - As I mentioned in a previous column, we will be having the annual neighborhood council congress this Saturday, September…
Fight City Hall And Win: The Saturday September 24 Neighborhood Congress Will Be Online
GELFAND’S WORLD - Each year there is a citywide event for all neighborhood council participants and for members of the public who have an i…
Let's Get Divisive: Pull The Plug On Trump
GELFAND’S WORLD - The news media have been floating the question as to whether prosecuting Donald Trump would be too divisive.
Queen Elizabeth II and Finding the Common Lesson
GELFAND’S WORLD - It's been a long time coming. The longest reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom has died at 96.
Labor Day: What It Means and What It Ought To Mean
GELFAND’S WORLD - My opening story is from southern Kentucky and is from a couple of years ago.
Trump Era Captured in Exhibit 2A - Attachment F
GELFAND’S WORLD - Get The Picture? It's the defining moment of the Trump era.
Did He Steal The Top Secret Files, Intending To Peddle Them?
GELFAND’S WORLD - A hint or a clue: We will know that Donald Trump is seriously concerned over the top secret documents he kept in Mar a La…
Who Are the Trump Supporters, and Who is their next Cult Leader?
GELFAND’S WORLD - Many people have said that Donald Trump is merely the symptom of an underlying malady, that the problems were there when…
