LOS ANGELES

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.

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. 

EDUCATION POLITICS- Under the current interpretation of PROP-39, charter schools can demand space from public schools to implement their programs.

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.

OTHERWORDS--Let’s talk about turkey!

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.

LEANING RIGHT--What's in a word? What's in a concept? The terms "liberal" and "conservative" too often connote images of decades ago, when the term "conservative" meant not being open to new ideas, and "liberal" meant never preventing new ideas, and certainly not free speech. 

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.

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.

MY TURN-Ecclesiastes’ list of things for which there is a season is more extensive than most of us realize, but is there ever a time to turn brother against brother? 

MY TURN-I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with the Los Angeles Police Department.

@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.