#  LOS ANGELES

   ##  [ Why are People So Damned Unreasonable?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17405-why-are-people-so-damned-unreasonable "Why are People So Damned Unreasonable?")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028b.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17405-why-are-people-so-damned-unreasonable)

**ALPERN AT LARGE**--The last two nights I witnessed a couple of Mar Vista Community Council (MVCC) committee meetings that addressed development, traffic, and the environment. Discussions were had, the presenters were smart and sensitive to those doing the questioning, and the MVCC did what it does best: they were reasonable.

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   ##  [ If You Think SB 50 will be Bad, Think Again: It will Actually be Much Worse](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17404-if-you-think-sb-50-will-be-bad-think-again-it-will-actually-be-much-worse "If You Think SB 50 will be Bad, Think Again: It will Actually be Much Worse")

      Details    Dick Platkin    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17404-if-you-think-sb-50-will-be-bad-think-again-it-will-actually-be-much-worse)

**PLATKIN ON PLANNING**-By now most *CityWatch* readers are familiar with SB 50, California State Senator Scott Wiener’s reboot of last year’s SB 827, a bill that died in committee.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17404-if-you-think-sb-50-will-be-bad-think-again-it-will-actually-be-much-worse)

   ##  [ Republicans Have Put Our Country on a Path of Warp-Speed Decline—And They Want You to Think It's Worth Cheering For](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17403-republicans-have-put-our-country-on-a-path-of-warp-speed-decline-and-they-want-you-to-think-it-s-worth-cheering-for "Republicans Have Put Our Country on a Path of Warp-Speed Decline—And They Want You to Think It's Worth Cheering For")

      Details    Thom Hartmann    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028f.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17403-republicans-have-put-our-country-on-a-path-of-warp-speed-decline-and-they-want-you-to-think-it-s-worth-cheering-for)

**LEANING LEFT**— As long as the GOP can fool *some* of the people *all* of the time, they don't give a rat's ass about the rest of us.

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   ##  [ Jackie Lacey and Austin Beutner: Why People Don’t Trust Attorneys](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17402-jackie-lacey-and-austin-beutner-why-people-don-t-trust-attorneys "Jackie Lacey and Austin Beutner: Why People Don’t Trust Attorneys")

      Details    Tony Butka    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028o.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17402-jackie-lacey-and-austin-beutner-why-people-don-t-trust-attorneys)

**EASTSIDER**-Back in May of last year I wrote a [column in *CityWatch*](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/2016-01-01-13-17-00/los-angeles/15531-la-school-board-gets-caught-using-secret-meeting-to-hire-new-ed-chief) on the secret, underhanded hiring of Austin Beutner in violation of the Brown Act. Now we find out that, as Jackie Lacey runs for re-election for District Attorney, it was all a misunderstanding and there was no problem.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17402-jackie-lacey-and-austin-beutner-why-people-don-t-trust-attorneys)

   ##  [ Killing the California Dream](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17401-killing-the-california-dream "Killing the California Dream")

      Details    Randal O’Toole    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17401-killing-the-california-dream)

**NEW GEOGRAPHY**--Californians need to give up on their dream of a “ranch-house lifestyle” and an “ample backyard” and the state should become “more like New York City,” [writes](https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-housing-policy-california-20190325-story.html) *LA Times* columnist George Skelton (reprinted in the [*Mercury-News*](https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/26/skelton-california-ranch-style-living-is-a-dying-species/) and [*East Bay Times*](https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/03/26/skelton-california-ranch-style-living-is-a-dying-species/) in case you run into the *LA Times* paywall). After reading his article, the Antiplanner has just one question: Why?

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17401-killing-the-california-dream)

   ##  [ The Real Danger of Anti-Semitism in America](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17400-the-real-danger-of-anti-semitism-in-america "The Real Danger of Anti-Semitism in America")

      Details    Rabbi David Teutsch    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 04 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/028l.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17400-the-real-danger-of-anti-semitism-in-america)

PERSPECTIVE-Many in the American Jewish community are worried about a rise in anti-Semitism and have recently focused their concern on the words of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. That focus is misplaced. The real and actual threat comes from white extremists.

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   ##  [ Giant Rodents Invade CA as Assembly Bill 273 Urges Ban on Trapping Fur-Bearing Animals](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17391-giant-rodents-invade-ca-as-assembly-bill-273-urges-ban-on-trapping-fur-bearing-animals "Giant Rodents Invade CA as Assembly Bill 273 Urges Ban on Trapping Fur-Bearing Animals")

      Details    Phyllis M. Daugherty    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027v.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17391-giant-rodents-invade-ca-as-assembly-bill-273-urges-ban-on-trapping-fur-bearing-animals)

**ANIMAL WATCH**-Councilman Paul Koretz declared on September 18, 2018," We did it! Today my City Council colleagues voted unanimously to ban the sale and manufacture of fur in the City of LA as of 2020!"

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   ##  [ ‘Vulturism’ – How the Political Elite Divide and Conquer](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17390-vulturism-how-the-political-elite-divide-and-conquer "‘Vulturism’ – How the Political Elite Divide and Conquer")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17390-vulturism-how-the-political-elite-divide-and-conquer)

**ONE MAN’S OPINION**-How do mental illness, vulturism and politicos interact with each other? All three are vast subject areas meriting research, books to be written, and extensive public discussion, but one initial step is to recognize their existence.

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   ##  [ Talk is Cheap. Unfortunately, Housing Ain't!](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17389-talk-is-cheap-unfortunately-housing-ain-t "Talk is Cheap. Unfortunately, Housing Ain't!")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027f.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17389-talk-is-cheap-unfortunately-housing-ain-t)

**ALPERN AT LARGE**--People need a place to live--I've still not forgotten my earlier days in medical school, and as a resident, and certainly I care deeply about my nurses and my patients. Where are they going to live? Hence my decades-long efforts to encourage affordable and innovative ways for people to live, work, and enjoy a quality of life.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17389-talk-is-cheap-unfortunately-housing-ain-t)

   ##  [ Cesar Chavez’s Legacy: A Nonviolent Revolution](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17388-cesar-chavez-s-legacy-a-nonviolent-revolution "Cesar Chavez’s Legacy: A Nonviolent Revolution")

      Details    Peter Dreier    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027t.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17388-cesar-chavez-s-legacy-a-nonviolent-revolution)

**GUEST WORDS**--Many people thought Cesar Chavez was crazy to think he could build a union among migrant farmworkers. Since the early 1900s, unions had been trying and failing to organize California’s unskilled agricultural workers. Whether the workers were Anglos, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, or Mexican Americans, these efforts met the same fate.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17388-cesar-chavez-s-legacy-a-nonviolent-revolution)

   ##  [ Santa Susana Field Lab: Why Does LA want to Sue Them? What is LA Hiding?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17385-santa-susana-field-lab-why-does-la-want-to-sue-them-what-is-la-hiding "Santa Susana Field Lab: Why Does LA want to Sue Them? What is LA Hiding?")

      Details    Chris Rowe    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027g.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17385-santa-susana-field-lab-why-does-la-want-to-sue-them-what-is-la-hiding)

**POLITICS**--On Monday, April 1st, 2019, the City Council Budget Committee will meet to discuss Council File 19-0145. Agenda Item 9 states:

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   ##  [ The Coldest Spot on Earth: Melting](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17384-the-coldest-spot-on-earth-melting "The Coldest Spot on Earth: Melting")

      Details    Robert Hunziker    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027e.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17384-the-coldest-spot-on-earth-melting)

**CLIMATE POLITICS**-Global warming is a fact of life that haunts society with consequences that hit hard, and exponentially, especially where nobody lives. It’s happening hyper fast and is downright scary as the major ecosystems of the planet turn upside down in a nasty fashion.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17384-the-coldest-spot-on-earth-melting)

   ##  [ It’s Not Easy Being a Xenophobe in America](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17383-it-s-not-easy-being-a-xenophobe-in-america "It’s Not Easy Being a Xenophobe in America")

      Details    Beth Cone Kramer    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027o.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17383-it-s-not-easy-being-a-xenophobe-in-america)

**BCK FILE**--Immigration and fear of “the other” have been hallmarks of Trump’s 2016 campaign and presidency. His political brand is deeply rooted in fear and intolerance. He has referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists, criminals, and drug dealers,” to African countries with a terribly pejorative term. One of his first acts as president was to sign an executive order to ban Muslim travelers from the U.S.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17383-it-s-not-easy-being-a-xenophobe-in-america)

   ##  [ FBI Notebook: A Criminal Conspiracy Involving Feuer, Wesson and Garcetti?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17382-fbi-notebook-a-criminal-conspiracy-involving-feuer-wesson-and-garcetti "FBI Notebook: A Criminal Conspiracy Involving Feuer, Wesson and Garcetti?")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027x.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17382-fbi-notebook-a-criminal-conspiracy-involving-feuer-wesson-and-garcetti)

**@THE GUSS REPORT**-Did the three most powerful politicians in the City of Los Angeles, namely Mayor Eric Garcetti, City Council president Herb Wesson and City Attorney Mike Feuer, criminally conspire to protect Garcetti by closely scrutinizing potential misconduct in some civil lawsuits against the city, while ignoring others?

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17382-fbi-notebook-a-criminal-conspiracy-involving-feuer-wesson-and-garcetti)

   ##  [ When is Many Freeway Billboards … Too Many?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17381-when-is-many-freeway-billboards-too-many "When is Many Freeway Billboards … Too Many?")

      Details    Bob Gelfand    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027a.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17381-when-is-many-freeway-billboards-too-many)

GELFAND’S WORLD--Drivers on the 110 freeway have recently been accosted with a digital billboard that flashes everything from the latest movie posters to attorney ads.

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   ##  [ Moneyball Meets the Homeless](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17379-moneyball-meets-the-homeless "Moneyball Meets the Homeless")

      Details    Tim Deegan    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     April 01 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Apr-2019/027m.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17379-moneyball-meets-the-homeless)

**DEEGAN ON LA**-The convergence of statistics and baseball dating back even to Branch Rickey’s time nearly a century ago has, in recent years, been exemplified by the Oakland A’s former general manager Billy Beane, who started a revolution in “America’s favorite sport” with an analytical system that became known as “Moneyball.”

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17379-moneyball-meets-the-homeless)

   ##  [ CA Judges and Pols: The Grand Enablers of Corruption in LA](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17368-ca-judges-and-pols-the-grand-enablers-of-corruption-in-la "CA Judges and Pols: The Grand Enablers of Corruption in LA")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     March 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2019/026u.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17368-ca-judges-and-pols-the-grand-enablers-of-corruption-in-la)

**ONE MAN’S OPINION**-The FBI’s been nosing around LA for some time. Gee whiz, corruption in Los Angeles? Talk about Johnny-Come-Lately. Los Angeles has literally been dying due to the billions of dollars in developer corruption and the FBI only now is asking questions?

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   ##  [ Emails Show Bonin’s Role in Palisades Eldercare Facility Approval](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17367-emails-show-bonin-s-role-in-palisades-eldercare-facility-approval "Emails Show Bonin’s Role in Palisades Eldercare Facility Approval")

      Details    Sue Pascoe    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     March 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2019/026l.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17367-emails-show-bonin-s-role-in-palisades-eldercare-facility-approval)

**DANCING WITH DEVELOPERS**-From emails obtained by *Circling the News*, it appears that Councilman Mike Bonin and his office took an active part in ensuring that the proposed eldercare facility on Palisades Drive received City approval.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17367-emails-show-bonin-s-role-in-palisades-eldercare-facility-approval)

   ##  [ So, What Kind of ‘Privilege’ Did Jussie Smollett Get?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17366-so-what-kind-of-privilege-did-jussie-smollett-get "So, What Kind of ‘Privilege’ Did Jussie Smollett Get?")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     March 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2019/026d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17366-so-what-kind-of-privilege-did-jussie-smollett-get)

**ALPERN AT LARGE**--Looks like we got no Justice, so there will be no Peace.

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   ##  [ Is DONE Competent Enough to Conduct Neighborhood Council Elections? If Not, Why Not?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17363-is-done-competent-enough-to-conduct-neighborhood-council-elections-if-not-why-not "Is DONE Competent Enough to Conduct Neighborhood Council Elections? If Not, Why Not?")

      Details    Tony Butka    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     March 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2019/026i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17363-is-done-competent-enough-to-conduct-neighborhood-council-elections-if-not-why-not)

**EASTSIDER**-The Department of Neighborhood Empowerment’s (DONE) handling of the Neighborhood Councils recently reminds me of what happens when the first stage of a space rocket fails to ignite. They are so gloriously incompetent that the whole shebang is going BOOM even as DONE marches forward toward the 2019 Neighborhood Council Elections.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17363-is-done-competent-enough-to-conduct-neighborhood-council-elections-if-not-why-not)

   ##  [ Guilty or Not, Smollett Still Deserved to Walk](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17362-guilty-or-not-smollett-still-deserved-to-walk "Guilty or Not, Smollett Still Deserved to Walk")

      Details    Earl Ofari Hutchinson    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     March 28 2019       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Mar-2019/026k.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17362-guilty-or-not-smollett-still-deserved-to-walk)

**URBAN PERSPECTIVE**-Actor Jussie Smollett may well have lied, committed mail fraud, paid off accomplices, and, of course, staged a fake racist, anti-gay attack on himself.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17362-guilty-or-not-smollett-still-deserved-to-walk)

1. [ Could the Path of a GOP Revolt against Trump Run Through East Los Angeles?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17361-could-the-path-of-a-gop-revolt-against-trump-run-through-east-los-angeles)
2. [ Dodger Baseball: The Blue and Very White](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17359-dodger-baseball-the-blue-and-very-white)
3. [ Will LA Finally Establish a City Department and Plan to address Climate Change? Maybe.](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17357-will-la-finally-establish-a-city-department-and-plan-to-address-climate-change-maybe)
4. [ How Emotional Memes Destroy Facts and Logic](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17343-how-emotional-memes-destroy-facts-and-logic)
5. [ Women Surfers Push Beyond Equal Pay—Even If It Means Letting Men into the Water, Too](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17342-women-surfers-push-beyond-equal-pay-even-if-it-means-letting-men-into-the-water-too)
6. [ CA Animal Control Officer Mauled by Pit Bulls - Police Officer Shoots Dog](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17341-ca-animal-control-officer-mauled-by-pit-bulls-police-officer-shoots-dog)
7. [ SB 50: Turning California into the Wild, Wild West Again](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17339-sb-50-turning-california-into-the-wild-wild-west-again)
8. [ California’s Construction Workers Can’t Afford the Homes They’re Building](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17338-california-s-construction-workers-can-t-afford-the-homes-they-re-building)
9. [ Not All Information is Equal: Crisis in the Age of Automation](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17337-not-all-information-is-equal-crisis-in-the-age-of-automation)
10. [ Child Exploitation, Rape, Subway Chaos Ignored by Martinez, Rodriguez](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17336-child-exploitation-rape-subway-chaos-ignored-by-martinez-rodriguez)
11. [ Frank Gehry’s Slow Grinding Wheels on Sunset](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17335-frank-gehry-s-slow-grinding-wheels-on-sunset)
12. [ Cannabis LA: Failing Grades for City Hall](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17334-cannabis-la-failing-grades-for-city-hall)
13. [ Is It Exoneration, or Just the Next Step in the Cover-Up?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17333-is-it-exoneration-or-just-the-next-step-in-the-cover-up)
14. [ Dog Whistles from Pelosi and Trump](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17322-dog-whistles-from-pelosi-and-trump)
15. [ Paper Receipts Could Be California’s Next Plastic Straws](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17318-paper-receipts-could-be-california-s-next-plastic-straws)
16. [ California's Drought Is Over. What Will That Mean for Water Use?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17317-california-s-drought-is-over-what-will-that-mean-for-water-use)
17. [ Do You Ever Get the Feeling They Want Us Gone!?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17316-do-you-ever-get-the-feeling-they-want-us-gone)
18. [ Why Do Wealthy CA Pols Think They Know What’s Best for You, Your Family and Our Crazy State?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17315-why-do-wealthy-ca-pols-think-they-know-what-s-best-for-you-your-family-and-our-crazy-state)
19. [ CA Dems’ Internal Elections - Talk About Top Down Control Freaks!](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17314-ca-dems-internal-elections-talk-about-top-down-control-freaks)
20. [ LAPD Reform: What a Crock](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/17313-lapd-reform-what-a-crock)

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