LOS ANGELES

GUEST WORDS-The lure of easy money has a powerful appeal. What is easier money than Taxpayer money?

THE DOCTOR’S IN-Fair is fair--if Governor Newsom or any other pol screws up, or succeeds, that politician deserves any credit or scorn he/she deserves.

@THE GUSS REPORT-"The worm has turned" is a phrase that dates back more than 500 years and suggests, among other things, that a situation can change quickly and that if pushed too far, even meek beings may strike back at their antagonist. 

PERSPECTIVE-Schrodinger’s Cat is a thought experiment designed to show people how they misunderstood quantum physics but ended up locking people into that very misunderstanding.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Throughout the world, scientists are speaking out like never before.

OPEN LETTER-To the Honorable John F. Walter:  

AT LENGTH-For those who were waiting for Mr. Donald J. Trump to become “presidential” or at least change his tone while he was in office, you can now rest assured.

GELFAND’S WORLD--An attempt at an opening paragraph: 

GUEST COMMENTARY-Some people like attention. But remember the old adage: Fools’ names and fools’ faces often appear in public places. 

PLANNING WATCH-Last week I explained why LA’s updated General Plan Housing Element (i.e., chapter) was a big bamboozle, a cavalier exercise to reverse engineer zone changes that further enrich real estate speculators already profiting from a housing boom. 

CORONA POLITICS-While most companies claim they put customer service ahead of everything, those of us who spend hours trying to resolve issues with our banks, our health insurers, our telephone companies, know that's not true. 

PERSPECTIVE--Maybe I hit my head on the tree limb harder than I thought, or did I get a glimpse of the Biden-McConnell Co-Presidency? 

EASTSIDER-Scratch the politics. Let’s talk about real life and death. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN! There's a lot of politics and bloviating right now, as there should be--but the downfall of Donald J. Trump and the rise of Joe Biden rested, and still does rest, on one thing ONLY: 

OTHER WORDS-In the interest of stemming the QAnon conspiracy theories about Satanist pedophile rings in Hollywood, I’d like to share my experience with actual Satanists in Hollywood.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-With the recent unveiling of the COVID-19 relief package, the Biden Administration made a simple, yet extraordinary statement: housing is a right.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Despite Biden's high approval numbers and Trump's plummeting ones and nine of ten Americans slamming the Capitol riot,

GELFAND’S WORLD--Some of my colleagues and a lot of Trump supporters have been arguing something along these lines: OK, so he was tone deaf and did a few bad things, but what about the good things he did? 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Welcome to the Presidency of the United States, Joe Biden! This mess is now your mess. Like each of your predecessors, you must play the hand you are dealt. 

SOUTH OF THE 10-Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. has systematically removed the public’s right to air grievances on the city’s safety issues by disbanding the police oversight commission.

CAL BUZZ-For our farewell to 2020, Calbuzz was cleverly waiting for the results of the Georgia Senate races, in order to be able to more accurately discuss how 2021 would be shaping up – Democratic control of the U.S. Senate obviously would make things very different than divided government.