LOS ANGELES

CAL MATTERS-Joe Biden’s choice of California’s junior senator, Kamala Harris, as his running mate brings to a close the presidential campaign’s most frenetic guessing game.

CLIMATE POLITICS-NASA satellite images of fires in eastern Siberia depict an inferno of monstrous proportions, nothing in modern history compares.

GELFAND’S WORLD--I’ve been to Sturgis. To the outsider or to our European readers, it’s Sturgis, South Dakota, USA, but to everyone who has ever seen a Harley Davidson motorcycle up close, it’s Sturgis. As in the Black Hills Rally that occurs at the beginning of August. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Los Angeles is thankful to the federal government for locking up our corrupt sleazebag politicians and their enablers inside and out of LA City Hall with more indictments, plural, on their way. 

GUEST WORDS-The federal indictment of Jose Huizar on felony corruption charges illustrates how the city councilman allegedly used his position as chair of the council’s powerful Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee to shake down developers.

GUEST COMMENTARY--This week, 30 million Americans will NOT receive any federal subsidy, and many could be subject to eviction. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION--Had Jose Huizar plead guilty, then we’d know that he had worked out a deal with the Feds.

ALPERN AT LARGE--It's not too hard to conclude that we're a divided nation.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-Behind the scenes, a handful of real estate executives have been guiding the California Apartment Association’s never-ending push to stop any and all renter protections.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Massive uncontrolled unprecedented wildfires are consuming portions of the Amazon rainforest and several regions of the Arctic.

AT LENGTH-I was stopped on the sidewalk the other day by one of our well-known personalities who accused me of abetting in the cover up of the truth behind the pandemic.

COMMON DREAMS-In the wake of what was dubbed a "Friday Night Massacre" at the U.S. Postal Service --

BETRAYAL--An advocacy group representing more than four million American retirees warned Thursday that President Donald Trump took a dangerous step toward "single-handedly" dismantling Social Security by announcing he plans to sign an executive order suspending collection of the payroll tax as early as Friday afternoon.

GELFAND’S WORLD--In a recent edition of CityWatch, there was a piece suggesting that the protesters in Portland were no better than Palestinian terrorists.

PLANNING WATCH-According to the medieval Italian poet, Dante Alighieri, Hell has nine levels.

@THE GUSS REPORT-It is restorative to watch LA City Council and its political peers twist like pretzels to disingenuously distance themselves from corrupt pals seemingly headed toward federal prison. 

GUEST WORDS--Los Angeles County Democrats are heading into what many believe to be the most consequential national election of our lifetime. 

GUEST WORDS-As the Coronavirus rages on with cases and deaths skyrocketing, mass evictions now threaten to make health, racial justice, and economic issues so much more challenging. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Some of us have witnessed an elected LA City official sworn-in to serve the public, either in person or via the media.

EASTSIDER-A couple of weeks ago, I wrote how the actual structure and framework of DONE is crumbling. Here’s what I wrote in my takeaway to the piece: 

ALPERN AT LARGE-So here we are in the Westside, like so many other Angelenos, in the middle of a Community Plan Update for the Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey region.