LOS ANGELES

PLANNING WATCH-In a recent 2019 CityWatch column and in previous 2016 columns I carefully debunked City Hall’s Purple Line Extension Transit Neighborhood Plan (TNP).

ALPERN AT LARGE-Human nature is innate and complicated--we're the greatest and dumbest species on this planet, and on any given day we can be both great and dumb in rather breath-taking ways: 

DIEDRA’S LA-Allow me to be politically on point once again: We have a corrupt City Council.

ONE MAN’S OPINION--As slow old Joe inches closer to selecting Kamala Harris, predator extraordinary, to be his running mate, one has to wonder why he would select someone whom the Dem voters have already rejected.  

GELFAND’S WORLD--Everyone remembers how Trump pulled off a miracle finish in 2016 by taking Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

GUEST WORDS--Soon after taking over as LA Planning Director in 2006, Gail Goldberg said “In every city in this country, the zone on the land establishes the value of the land. In Los Angeles, that's not true.

DIEDRA’S LA--WE HAD A RECORD NUMBER OF DEATHS 2 DAYS IN A ROW AND GOV. NEWSOM DIDN’T FLINCH

VOICES-For the past several months, going back as far as April 9, 2020, numerous attempts have been made by members of the Eagle Rock Chamber of Commerce, Northeast Los Angeles Neighborhood Watch Captains and other concerned residents of the Northeast Los Area to obtain COVID-19 testing in our residential community.

VOICES-South Pasadena is a community that prides itself on its diversity and on its educated and enlightened populace.

ALPERN AT LARGE--When even the family of George Floyd and the families of K-12 students are calling for an end to chaos, and a restoration of work, the economy, and school--

@THE GUSS REPORT-From the desert to the ocean, to all of Southern California, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is driving 24 million people across the region nuts with unscientific cogitations on the recent local pandemic spike. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-It’s no surprise that first prize, or the blue ribbon, for exceeding 2°C above baseline goes to the Arctic with permafrost that covers 25% of the Northern Hemisphere.

ONE MAN’S OPINION--Because so many Americans believe that the United States is a democracy, most scholars have given up explaining, “No, it is a Republic.” 

ALPERN AT LARGE-Let me state this article was written at the request of several of my patients (and their parents) who desperately want to go back to school, and have been socially and psychologically hurt (their words, not mine) by not being able to go to school.

RANTZ & RAVEZ--It really does not matter if you like or dislike President Trump or Former Vice - President Joe Biden. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Have we finally gotten to that point that others warned about right after Trump’s election?

GUEST WORDS--In two weeks, my partner and I were supposed to leave San Francisco for Reno, Nevada, where we’d be spending the next three months focused on the 2020 presidential election.

SHOCKER--Opponents said today that two new seismic studies by separate government agencies are “bombshells” that together warn that the proposed giant Millennium project in Hollywood, if built, would sit atop a site crossed by at least four active earthquake fault lines. 

PLANNING WATCH-Since its first baby steps in March 2020, the Covid-19 Pandemic and its deepening recession have taught us four important lessons. 

EASTSIDER-Every once in a while, there is a moment in political history, an inflection point, where the choice between two candidates can actually make a huge difference in the lives of Angelenos.

GUEST COMMENTARY--As the COVID-19 virus spreads, and our Mayor and the greedy council keep beaches and services open, the city is sending out fines to small businesses who are struggling to survive fining them $356.00 for "Illegal Banners" that are telling the locals that  the business is open.