PLANNING WATCH-Letters-to-the-editor often present political viewpoints that newspapers usually keep under wraps.

NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-What is the purpose of a city government? 

@THE GUSS REPORT-What would you do if a veterinarian encouraged you to kill your cat but didn’t provide life-saving services for which they billed, falsely claimed urine on her coat indicated jaundice and shockingly discouraged you from being there when the cat’s life is taken at their recommendation? 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Let’s not talk about the current president today. By the time this appears, the final presidential debate will (presumably) have finished.

EASTSIDER-LA County Measure R was a good beginning, and November’s Measure J just might be the right expansion. 

GUEST WORDS--Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, streaming on Netflix, is entertaining, sometimes moving and often funny.

LEANING RIGHT--There's a reason or three why so many Californians, be they Republican, Democratic, or Independent, are leaving our big cities and even our Once-Golden State: 

GUEST WORDS--I’m of the generation that was born during World War II.

TAX POLITICS-Want to know where the 2020 presidential election is heading? Don’t obsess about the polls. Pay attention to tax lawyers and accountants.

LA WATCHDOG--Would you vote to increase our sales tax by 2½% to 12%? 

ELECTION 2020-We are only two weeks out from election day and the picture looks quite grim for Donald Trump and the Republican party.

THE COLOR OF OUR ELECTIONS--There have been fifty-six presidential elections in the United States since the first in 1788. In each of them, two white men (with one exception) have competed for the privilege of leading this country, and, (without exception), each and every pair of them has been dedicated to this nation’s not-so-hidden agenda–the maintenance of white-male supremacy–a system of oppression first established by Columbus, in 1492. 

LEANING RIGHT--Without hesitation, I think that--at the time they were promoted--raising the sales tax for transportation made sense.

VIEW FROM HERE--The two main groups which attack America’s core value of “Liberty to all” are the Democrats and the Republicans. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially!