LOS ANGELES

LEANING RIGHT--As with my last CityWatch piece, we are all in a RACE between getting our vaccinations to this dreadful "Russian Roulette" of a virus.  

PSYCHOLOGY OF CHANGING-In the past four years, my job as a psychiatrist has given me a front row seat to the alarming gaps in our American society --

ONE MAN’S OPINION-Big Lie #1 is that Donald Trump won the November 2020 election in a landslide and his grand victory was being stolen. 

AT LENGTH-I would be happy if I never had to write about Donald J. Trump ever again.

GELFAND’S WORLD--Tuesday and Wednesday were very good days in a pretty good week, in spite of what some members of congress may have said.

Despite protests from President-elect Joe Biden and other officials that the Capitol insurrection was “not who we are,” the U.S. government has a long track record of disrupting democratic processes elsewhere.

EASTSIDER-It is clear to everyone who lives here that Los Angeles (City and County) is the new national epicenter for COVID-19 and its variants. So how did we hunker down over the holidays? 

MY WAY--Every problem we presently face as a society has an historic context during which it was mistakenly allowed to start and continue to grow unchallenged.

PANDEMIC PARTY HOUSES-The list of problems our city government has left to fester is long and troubling, and party houses operating in short-term rentals sat far from the top of that list.

LEANING RIGHT-We can go on and on about how the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was predicted to be worse,  and  certainly was, as borne out by the evidence and everyday reports.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Freedom of speech is my writing this article. 

PLANNING WATCH-Whether you call it Reaganomics, neo-liberalism, trickle-down or supply-side economics, privatization, or deregulation, failure is certain.

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Hello and happy 2021 to all Rantz & RaveZ readers.

FASCIST POLITICS--As I write this, pro-Trump protesters have stormed the U.S. Capitol building seeking to impose Trump’s attempted coup on America.

GELFAND’S WORLD--I thought I was done with all of this, but I keep getting dragged back.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Stay positive and test negative. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Social media is overflowing with videos from "The Drip Crib," where hundreds of young adults attended a jam-packed party believed to have been held on New Year's Eve in Encino and elsewhere across Los Angeles.

VOICES--The specter of 4’-11” Greta Thunberg (the alarmist environmental activist) casts a giant shadow in City Hall.

LEANING RIGHT--No, King Gavin, it's NOT about you. 

HOUSING THE HOMELESS-Bringing supportive housing stability to the homeless with special needs in times of COVID-19 is remarkable.

WORLD WATCH--On December 21, the United States Congress passed the COVID-19 Relief Package, as part of a larger $2.3 trillion bill meant to cover spending for the rest of the fiscal year. As usual, US representatives allocated a massive sum of money for Israel.