#  LOS ANGELES

   ##  [ Abuse of Power: Spineless Republicans Do NOTHING, but the People and the Free Press Have Had ENOUGH!](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16723-abuse-of-power-spineless-republicans-do-nothing-but-the-people-and-the-free-press-have-had-enough "Abuse of Power: Spineless Republicans Do NOTHING, but the People and the Free Press Have Had ENOUGH!")

      Details    S. Novi    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099a.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16723-abuse-of-power-spineless-republicans-do-nothing-but-the-people-and-the-free-press-have-had-enough)

MY TURN-Since the announcement of the illegitimate election results, there has been an onslaught of misinformation, manbaby antics, outrageous distractions, outright lies, emotional outbursts and the most unprofessional and mismanaged conditions that Washington, D.C. and our government has ever experienced.

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   ##  [ Without More New Jobs, Will Gentrification Actually Bring Prosperity?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16722-without-more-new-jobs-will-gentrification-actually-bring-prosperity "Without More New Jobs, Will Gentrification Actually Bring Prosperity?")

      Details    James Preston Allen    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099c.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16722-without-more-new-jobs-will-gentrification-actually-bring-prosperity)

AT LENGTH-For some 50 years, I have witnessed the comings and goings of “great” plans for community development here in the Los Angeles Harbor Area and Long Beach.

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   ##  [ Developers and Politicos Should be Taxed for Making Us Miserable](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16721-developers-and-politicos-should-be-taxed-for-making-us-miserable "Developers and Politicos Should be Taxed for Making Us Miserable")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099o.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16721-developers-and-politicos-should-be-taxed-for-making-us-miserable)

CORRUPTION WATCH-METRO, whose Board is dominated by Eric Garcetti and the other density mavens in the LA City Council, wants individual Angelenos who get caught in our horrid traffic to be fined for the privilege of being abused each morning and evening. Really?

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   ##  [ Do We Pay For Our Roads Once? Or Do We Choose to Be a Dunce?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16718-do-we-pay-for-our-roads-once-or-do-we-choose-to-be-a-dunce "Do We Pay For Our Roads Once? Or Do We Choose to Be a Dunce?")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099n.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16718-do-we-pay-for-our-roads-once-or-do-we-choose-to-be-a-dunce)

POLITICS THAT RHYME--I like my roads fixed through and through, And I think you feel the same way, too! But call me silly, and such a fool, 'Cuz I hate being used as a stupid tool.

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   ##  [ Tejon Ranch’s Centennial: A Fiscal and Fire Disaster Waiting to Happen for LA County](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16717-tejon-ranch-s-centennial-a-fiscal-and-fire-disaster-waiting-to-happen-for-la-county "Tejon Ranch’s Centennial: A Fiscal and Fire Disaster Waiting to Happen for LA County")

      Details    Jack Eidt    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16717-tejon-ranch-s-centennial-a-fiscal-and-fire-disaster-waiting-to-happen-for-la-county)

PLANNING EMERGENCY-In this time of recurring climate-induced wildfire disasters, where many have died, and thousands of homes, schools, and businesses have burned to the ground, should we be putting more people in the path of danger by building flammable communities out in the flammable wilds?

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16717-tejon-ranch-s-centennial-a-fiscal-and-fire-disaster-waiting-to-happen-for-la-county)

   ##  [ At the Core of the Studio City Brouhaha: The City Department’s Ineptitude and the Manager’s Arrogance](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16716-at-the-core-of-the-studio-city-brouhaha-the-city-department-s-ineptitude-and-the-manager-s-arrogance "At the Core of the Studio City Brouhaha: The City Department’s Ineptitude and the Manager’s Arrogance")

      Details    Stu Miller    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099u.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16716-at-the-core-of-the-studio-city-brouhaha-the-city-department-s-ineptitude-and-the-manager-s-arrogance)

GUEST WORDS--Ms. Berlin and her close ally and friend, Ms. MacKay, have conveniently overlooked some pertinent facts in their inflammatory revisionist rewrite of the 2016 SCNC post-election Grievance Panel capers.

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   ##  [ Jan Perry (or Even Jan Brady) – LA Deserves Better than Wesson](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16715-jan-perry-or-even-jan-brady-la-deserves-better-than-wesson "Jan Perry (or Even Jan Brady) – LA Deserves Better than Wesson")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099k.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16715-jan-perry-or-even-jan-brady-la-deserves-better-than-wesson)

@THE GUSS REPORT-It says a lot that neither of the two men at the top of the City of Los Angeles political food chain actually wants to be Mayor.

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   ##  [ Density’s Best Politico Friend Has Returned](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16714-density-s-best-politico-friend-has-returned "Density’s Best Politico Friend Has Returned")

      Details    Tim Deegan    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099p.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16714-density-s-best-politico-friend-has-returned)

DEEGAN ON LA-He’s baaack! State Senator Scott Wiener (SD11) has introduced a new density bill in the state legislature called [SB-50 Planning and zoning: housing development: equitable communities incentive](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB50).

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16714-density-s-best-politico-friend-has-returned)

   ##  [ When is an Employee Not an Employee? State Legislature Takes a Look at CA’s Gig Economy](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16713-when-is-an-employee-not-an-employee-state-legislature-takes-a-look-at-ca-s-gig-economy "When is an Employee Not an Employee? State Legislature Takes a Look at CA’s Gig Economy")

      Details    Beth Cone Kramer    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 10 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/099d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16713-when-is-an-employee-not-an-employee-state-legislature-takes-a-look-at-ca-s-gig-economy)

BCK FILE--When the new legislation session opened last week in Sacramento, legislators introduced bills for the 2019-2020 session. Two of those bills address a California Supreme Court decision that made a strong statement about the “gig economy.”

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16713-when-is-an-employee-not-an-employee-state-legislature-takes-a-look-at-ca-s-gig-economy)

   ##  [ NAACP Legal Defense Should Address the Still Segregated LAUSD](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16696-naacp-legal-defense-should-address-the-still-segregated-lausd "NAACP Legal Defense Should Address the Still Segregated LAUSD")

      Details    Leonard Isenberg    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098g.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16696-naacp-legal-defense-should-address-the-still-segregated-lausd)

FIRST PERSON-Probably the greatest advantage the United States has had over most other countries up until now has been its pragmatic and ever evolving definition of what it means to be an American.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16696-naacp-legal-defense-should-address-the-still-segregated-lausd)

   ##  [ Patriotism Is Not Just a Trend](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16695-patriotism-is-not-just-a-trend "Patriotism Is Not Just a Trend")

      Details    S.Novi    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098d.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16695-patriotism-is-not-just-a-trend)

MY TURN-I was born on a military base and raised in a military family. The concept of patriotism was something that was ingrained and yet also very personal.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16695-patriotism-is-not-just-a-trend)

   ##  [ A Nation Pauses … To Remember Bush, Attack Trump](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16694-a-nation-pauses-to-remember-bush-attack-trump "A Nation Pauses … To Remember Bush, Attack Trump")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098w.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16694-a-nation-pauses-to-remember-bush-attack-trump)

CORRUPTION WATCH-With the passing of former President George H. W. Bush (Bush 41), the nation pauses. The country unites in remembering 41's decency and humanity.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16694-a-nation-pauses-to-remember-bush-attack-trump)

   ##  [ Jerry Brown’s Last Stand on Pension Reform](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16692-jerry-brown-s-last-stand-on-pension-reform "Jerry Brown’s Last Stand on Pension Reform")

      Details    Judy Lin    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16692-jerry-brown-s-last-stand-on-pension-reform)

CAL MATTERS--Six years ago, as California strained to emerge from the Great Recession, Gov. Jerry Brown worked a minor political miracle—a rebalancing of the massive state pension systems for public employees.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16692-jerry-brown-s-last-stand-on-pension-reform)

   ##  [ Slowing the Flow of Immigrants: Not about Walls and Troops](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16690-slowing-the-flow-of-immigrants-not-about-walls-and-troops "Slowing the Flow of Immigrants: Not about Walls and Troops")

      Details    Alon Ben-Mier    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098c.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16690-slowing-the-flow-of-immigrants-not-about-walls-and-troops)

WORLD WATCH--To dramatically slow the flow of illegal immigration and even end it does not rest on building walls or sending troops to the border, or by heartlessly snatching children from their mothers’ arms, or by incarceration, deportation, or prosecution.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16690-slowing-the-flow-of-immigrants-not-about-walls-and-troops)

   ##  [ Our Biggest Threat to the Environment is NOT Donald J. Trump ... It's Donald J. Garcetti!](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16689-our-biggest-threat-to-the-environment-is-not-donald-j-trump-it-s-donald-j-garcetti "Our Biggest Threat to the Environment is NOT Donald J. Trump ... It's Donald J. Garcetti!")

      Details    Kenneth S. Alpern    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098f.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16689-our-biggest-threat-to-the-environment-is-not-donald-j-trump-it-s-donald-j-garcetti)

ALPERN AT LARGE--It's NOT a secret that Donald J. Trump does not see eye to eye with many environmentalists, including the Sierra Club.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16689-our-biggest-threat-to-the-environment-is-not-donald-j-trump-it-s-donald-j-garcetti)

   ##  [ Letter from UN4LA: Why the Purple Line Extension TNP Won’t Work](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16688-letter-from-un4la-why-the-purple-line-extension-tnp-won-t-work "Letter from UN4LA: Why the Purple Line Extension TNP Won’t Work")

      Details    Dick Platkin    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098h.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16688-letter-from-un4la-why-the-purple-line-extension-tnp-won-t-work)

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-*Note to CityWatchLA readers: United Neighborhoods for LA (UN4LA) recently sent this letter outlining an alternative to the proposed Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood (Up-zoning) Plan to the three-members of the City Council whose Districts include this potential Specific Plan.*

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16688-letter-from-un4la-why-the-purple-line-extension-tnp-won-t-work)

   ##  [ How Much Have LADWP Bills Really Increased?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16687-how-much-have-ladwp-bills-really-increased "How Much Have LADWP Bills Really Increased?")

      Details    Ann Santilli    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098n.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16687-how-much-have-ladwp-bills-really-increased)

COST OF LIVING, EXPLAINED--Following a much hotter late summer and early fall, LADWP received calls from customers who felt their bills were higher than in prior years.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16687-how-much-have-ladwp-bills-really-increased)

   ##  [ Zealous Straw Ban Exposes City Council’s Bombast and Refusal to Listen](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16686-zealous-straw-ban-exposes-city-council-s-bombast-and-refusal-to-listen "Zealous Straw Ban Exposes City Council’s Bombast and Refusal to  Listen")

      Details    Daniel Guss    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098a.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16686-zealous-straw-ban-exposes-city-council-s-bombast-and-refusal-to-listen)

@THE GUSS REPORT-Aye yai yai! How do these people keep getting elected? On Tuesday, LA City Council moved toward banning plastic straws that, while a promising ecological goal, exposed its preference for hyperbole misrepresented as the truth.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16686-zealous-straw-ban-exposes-city-council-s-bombast-and-refusal-to-listen)

   ##  [ DONE and the Destruction of Public Records](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16684-done-and-the-destruction-of-public-records "DONE and the Destruction of Public Records")

      Details    Tony Butka    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 06 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/098r.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16684-done-and-the-destruction-of-public-records)

EASTSIDER-A few weeks ago, I wrote a column that clearly demonstrates DONE has destroyed public records in violation of State law.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16684-done-and-the-destruction-of-public-records)

   ##  [ Information Fair on Bridge Home Generates Some Tension](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16675-information-fair-on-bridge-home-generates-some-tension "Information Fair on Bridge Home Generates Some Tension")

      Details    James Preston Allen    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 03 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/097i.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16675-information-fair-on-bridge-home-generates-some-tension)

AT LENGTH-Clearly there was some tension in the air as people gathered at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club Nov. 27 for the Bridge Home Information Fair hosted by LA City Councilman Joe Buscaino.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16675-information-fair-on-bridge-home-generates-some-tension)

   ##  [ Three Undercurrents Threaten the Republic](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16674-three-undercurrents-threaten-the-republic "Three Undercurrents Threaten the Republic")

      Details    Richard Lee Abrams    [LOS ANGELES](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles)     December 03 2018       [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Dec-2018/097b.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16674-three-undercurrents-threaten-the-republic)

CORRUPTION WATCH-A Passion for Ignorance, Corruptionism and Group Rights act like three riptides at Venice beach to drag the American Republic out to sea and drown it.

     [  Read more …  ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16674-three-undercurrents-threaten-the-republic)

1. [ Hey America: You Already Have Democratic Socialist Programs, Skip the Hypocrite Fear Mongering](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16673-hey-america-you-already-have-democratic-socialist-programs-skip-the-hypocrite-fear-mongering)
2. [ Save the Whales: Ride Buses, Trains, and Walk](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16670-save-the-whales-ride-buses-trains-and-walk)
3. [ One Lesson from Dem’s Party Chairman Resignation: #MeToo Isn’t Going Away](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16669-one-lesson-from-dem-s-party-chairman-resignation-metoo-isn-t-going-away)

4. [ Hip Millennials: From Protected Cocoons to Revealed Realities](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16667-hip-millennials-from-protected-cocoons-to-revealed-realities)
5. [ The “Burning Like Malibu” Metaphor](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16666-the-burning-like-malibu-metaphor)
6. [ Confusing Photo Ops with Leadership: A Response to RantZ & RaveZ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16665-confusing-photo-ops-with-leadership-a-response-to-rantz-ravez)
7. [ Garcetti Desperate to Dodge Whistleblower Deposition](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16664-garcetti-desperate-to-dodge-whistleblower-deposition)
8. [ To Impeach or Not To Impeach](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16663-to-impeach-or-not-to-impeach)
9. [ List of Top California Politicians Sent to Prison and Why](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16662-list-of-top-california-politicians-sent-to-prison-and-why)
10. [ If Indicted, Jose Huizar Joins This Long List of California Politicians](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16652-if-indicted-jose-huizar-joins-this-long-list-of-california-politicians)
11. [ How Would Gandhi have Approached the Border Crisis?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16651-how-would-gandhi-approached-the-border-crisis)
12. [ Is It time for Eric Bauman to Face the Music?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16653-is-it-time-for-eric-bauman-to-face-the-music)
13. [ Local Officials were ‘All Hands on Deck’ – Just One was MIA](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16654-local-officials-were-all-hands-on-deck-just-one-was-mia)
14. [ Neither Rowling Nor Tolkien Were Racists ... In Fact, We Could Learn from Them ](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16660-neither-rowling-nor-tolkien-were-racists-in-fact-we-could-learn-from-them)
15. [ Perils of Division: America Was Founded on Rejection of Group Rights](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16655-perils-of-division-america-was-founded-on-rejection-of-group-rights)
16. [ RSO Structures: What Exactly is Affordable Housing?](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16656-rso-structures-what-exactly-is-affordable-housing)
17. [ Study Shows Right Wingers Believe and Share the Most Fake News](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16657-study-shows-right-wingers-believe-and-share-the-most-fake-news)
18. [ Whiter, Poorer, Trumpier: the New Republican California](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16658-whiter-poorer-trumpier-the-new-republican-california)
19. [ I.F. Stone: “All Governments Lie.”](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16659-i-f-stone-all-governments-lie)
20. [ Trump’s Lies vs Roberts’ Myths](https://www.citywatchla.com/los-angeles/16636-trump-s-lies-vs-roberts-myths)

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