LOS ANGELES

When Bakersfield-based oil company E&B Natural Resources sought to put wells in Hermosa Beach that would dig through the ocean floor sideways in 2013, the company’s president said he wanted the community’s trust. 

GUEST COMMENTARY-When alert residents of Elysian Valley noticed that a member of their Neighborhood Council posted an anti-Semitic image on social media, it was a glaring signal that the local body had lost its way.

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--California’s fight against climate change isn’t doing all that much to slow climate change. But the fight should be considered a success anyway.

VIEW FROM HERE--One person who is not naive about Garcetti’s faux $1 Billion plan to help the homeless is Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission, who reportedly said:

LOS ANGELES-The Ethics Commission may have lost its edge.

EASTSIDER-While the establishment, including all the Republicans and  a number of Dems, are freaking out that Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill is just too much, what about their code of silence regarding their Wall Street Owners? Why is virtually all of Congress silent about Wall Street’s bets with you and I on the hook if they tank? 

OTHERWORDS-Even as the Biden administration commits to environmental justice, people in the Fifth District of Louisiana’s St. James Parish are mobilizing to stop a Formosa plastics plant accused of environmental racism in the majority-Black community.

A WORD WITH HIGHTOWER--It’s time for America to go back to the future — a future of true greatness created by a people united to build a strong nation for the common good.

POLICING THE POLICE-Three weeks into the Minneapolis trial of Derek Chauvin for the killing of George Floyd, a white police officer in the neighboring suburb of Brooklyn Center killed a young Black man named Daunte Wright,

CLIMATE POLITICS-The 21st century serves as an inflection point of acceleration of climate instability caused by human-generated greenhouse gases, as CO2 emissions increase well beyond the rate of the prior century.

CLASS DICTATORSHIP-Since most U.S.-Americans know little about social and political reality beyond their own limited experience and bubbles, powerfully deceptive narratives and images disseminated by the corporate media easily distort public perceptions. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--One commonly accepted definition of a mass shooting is 3 or more wounded or dead in a single incident.

PRESIDENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITY-The Biden administration on Thursday laid it right out in the open. It's time to seriously discuss a 60-year problem we've had with treasonous and illegitimate Republican presidents. 

POLICE KILLINGS-“Get out of the car! Get out of the car now!!”

HOMELESSNESS POLITICS--On March 24, hundreds of police officers swept Los Angeles’ Echo Park Lake of its unhoused encampments after City Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell directed the park’s closure.

THE DOCTOR IS IN--I've never been a fan of bullies and/or bigots, and we're living in a world where those screaming about bullies are too often THEMSELVES the bullies, and those screaming about bigotry are too often THEMSELVES the bigots. 

THE CITY-Announcing the publication of the Civic Memory Working Group’s report and its topline recommendations,

RACIAL DIVIDERS-Jamil Ford still recalls the disorders of late May. “It was like Baghdad,” he recalls,

AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL-An Afghan taxi-driver in Vancouver told one of us a decade ago that this day would come.

VIEW FROM HERE-Most enterprises have unintended consequences.  After harmful results materialize, people often press ahead ignoring the injury they are causing. 

AT LENGTH--I find it curious that on the very night that the last Los Angeles City Council District 15 homeless working group held its recent meeting in which they were discussing a possible homeless campsite on Lots E and F on Port of Los Angeles property,