POLITICS AND THE COURT--Donald Trump’s disgraced lawyer, Roy Cohn famously said, "F*** the law, who’s the judge!"
LOS ANGELES
Supes Barger and Solis Look to Repurpose Unused Commercial Property to Aid LA’s Homeless
HELP FOR HOMELESS-At tomorrow’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Kathryn Barger will introduce a motion, coauthored by Chair Hilda L. Solis, that looks to identify commercial real estate property across Los Angeles County that could be repurposed for critically needed temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness as well as for long term affordable housing.
How the Right and Left Gin Up Divisive Racism for Fun and Profit
MY TURN--Fund raisers on the Right and on the Left know that the best way to raise vast sums of money is to claim an existential threat to their base.
Bill Gates Offers an Optimistic Look at Solving Global Warming. Are You Listening Texas?
GELFAND’S WORLD--"There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51 billion. The other is zero."
What is This ‘QAnon’ Thing They’re Talking About?
CALBUZZ-Recent focus on the deranged views voiced by U.S. Rep Marjorie Taylor (Marge) Greene has elevated “QAnon” to a household word.
City Attorney Puts Brakes on Buscaino’s Motion to Sue LAUSD
EDUCATION POLITICS — On Feb. 10, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer rejected District 15 Councilman Joe Buscaino and District 1 Councilman Gil Cedillo’s motion to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District to force the unsafe reopening of school campuses (“in-person instruction immediately”) even as more variants are found spreading in the community that are far more contagious than the original coronavirus.
Ecocide!
CLIMATE POLITICS-Ecocide is the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity.
Big Oil Spent $10 million Lobbying California Officials in 2020
ENERGY POLITICS-The powerful oil industry lobby in California in 2020 spent less on lobbying in California than it did in 2019,
A Classroom Teacher’s View of Reopening Schools: What Policymakers & the Public Don’t Understand
EDUCATION POLITICS-Teachers unions are under attack, as our well-founded concern for our students, their families, and yes, ourselves, is being portrayed as a political powerplay, or worse.
COVID-19 Update: Schooling the Schooled on Reopening our Schools
THE DOCTOR IS IN--Is it possible to demand our schools reopen while being adamantly pro-teacher/education?
Homeless Living in Vehicles, Screwed Again
EASTSIDER-Best explanation of how overnight parking on LA City Streets has been enforced was given to me by a fellow journalist who blogs at michaelkohlhaas.org.
When City Hall Does the Right Thing for the Wrong Reason - Dumping the Miracle Mile’s ‘Transit Neighborhood Plan’
PLANNING WATCH-The Los Angeles City Planning Department recently announced that it is terminating work on its long-stalled Purple Line Extension "Transit Neighborhood Plan" (TNP).