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MARC'S ANGle - There’s a verdict in the end. Full disclosure. I do not watch reality TV, or TV shows, in general, and basically did research to write this piece due to running into Vicki at a charity event for Fix’n Fidos, the day after a very public press sparring between her and Steve.
COMMENTARY - There is an obvious “disconnect” between this new crop of mayoral candidates looking to succeed the failed administration of lame duck Mayor Eric Garcetti,
LA BUDGET WATCH - At $11.4 billion, this year’s Los Angeles budget puts many nations to shame.
RantZ and RaveZ - On November 17, 1973, Former President Richard M. Nixon stated the following during a speech, “I am not a Crook.”
LA BUDGET WATCH - These remarks by Jack Humphreville were made at the Congress of Neighborhoods on Saturday, September 25, 2021 following the presentation of Liz Amsden.
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Few people, if any, have done more to bring about a fatally polarized America where our very existence as a Republic is at stake than Nancy Pelosi.
PLANNING WATCH - In California every city and county must have a General Plan, and one of its mandatory elements (i.e., sections) is Housing.
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Why Would Candidates for Los Angeles Mayor Not Answer Whether the Anti-Bribery Statute, Penal Code, § 86, Applies to the LA City Council?
SOUTH OF THE 10 - Former County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas might not be the only political figure caught in the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.
PORTS BACKLOGGED - The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are clogged.
CARSON ENVIRONMENT - Carson residents are sickened by how city officials and the county have handled the repulsive smell caused by hydrogen sulfide in the Dominguez Channel.
JOBS BUT NO WORKERS - Put out of a job when COVID-19 practically shut down the hotel industry in 2020, Ruth Dominguez couldn’t wait to get back to work.
SUPPLY CHAIN PILEUP - For a generation, the Long Beach and Los Angeles harbors in California handled more than 40 percent of all container cargo headed into the US and epitomized the power of a globalizing economy.
CAL MATTERS - The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought what appear to be permanent social and economic changes and nowhere is that more evident than in California.
A CAL EDUCATION - Californians rightly pride themselves in leading the nation in numerous areas from stewardship of the environment, to embracing the many virtues of diversity and multiculturalism, to the media and technology magic being created in sectors sprawling from San Diego to and San Francisco.
THE DOCTOR IS IN - I have been following the career of Sebastian Ridley-Thomas from a distance ever since he was promoted to the 54th Assembly District in 2013 at the tender age of 27...
THE VIEW FROM HERE - Angelenos do not have to accept the deterioration of Los Angeles into a corrupt oligarchy where the wealth flows to the top and the homeless with their feces and trash flow into the streets.
HOUSING POLITICS--"iBuyers" are gearing up to grow massively in the coming years, with unforeseen consequences for the U.S. housing market.
PLANNING WATCH - The ranks of the climate change deniers are thinning.
CONNECTING CALIFORNIA - A snarky reader, annoyed at some praise of California’s governor in this space, recently asked: Where exactly do I keep my shrine to Gavin Newsom?
THE VIEW FROM HERE - The reason that the Trump’s habitual lying gets so much mileage is the same reason that the Dem’s lies get so much mileage.
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