LOS ANGELES

ONE MAN’S OPINION-Mark this one “rank speculation,” or we could call it, “there are too many serious problems without solutions; so, let’s jump into silly land.” 

SPECIAL TO CITYWATCH-The current uproar over Los Angeles City Council member Jose Huizar’s arrest for corruption reminds me of the famous distinction between “dishonest graft” and “honest graft” made by George Washington Plunkitt, a flamboyant New York City  politician in the early 1900s.

VOICES--The biblical verse, "the love of money is the root of all evil," is aptly invoked in reference to the City of Angels these days.

GELFAND’S WORLD--It should never have been an issue. We are in the midst of a serious pandemic that obviously requires some adjusting on all of our parts.

OTHER WORDS-The Supreme Court just affirmed a right I thought I always had: not to be fired for my sexual orientation. 

GUEST COMMENTARY-Just how corrupt is the LA City government? 

ALPERN AT LARGE-I'll be happy to go on record as saying I don't give a damn if anything bad happens to Derek Chauvin,

PROTEST VOICES GROW--The movement for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people’s rights began in the fight to save our lives from police violence.  

@THE GUSS REPORT-Disgraced LA City Councilmember Jose Huizar and his wife Richelle Rios Huizar (photo above) both have law degrees from the UCLA School of Law, which U.S. News and World Report ranks as the 15^th best in the United States.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-For Essex Property Trust CEO Mike Schall, it’s all about the money — no matter who gets hurt.

GUEST COMMENTARY-The American “justice” system has always appalled me as being too often one of injustice and oppression, one of retribution and incarceration.

POLITICS NAME GAME-In the devastating aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many young Americans who felt betrayed by capitalism were introduced to socialism by Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns.

AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS: The CDC website shows: “People Who Are at Higher Risk for Severe Illness”: 

ONE MAN’S OPINION--Los Angeles’ vast corruption which the FBI is working very hard to conceal, is systemic.   

AT LENGTH-It has never been more apparent in my lifetime just how interconnected we all are.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Can’t people add? Or do they choose not to? 

EASTSIDER--I don’t mean to be harsh.  Really I don’t. But the recent City Council’s falling all over themselves to Black Lives Matter is a fake strategy. 

PLANNING WATCH-In Los Angeles the growing numbers of For Rent signs and homeless encampments are not random events.

ALPERN AT LARGE--Ever wonder if the mayors of major cities actually WANT President Trump re-elected?

@THE GUSS REPORT-This column tried to call into Tuesday’s LA City Council meeting just hours after it was announced that another of its own, Jose Huizar, had been arrested on RICO/racketeering charges. (Former Councilmember Mitch Englander is expected to change his federal corruption plea to guilty in early July.) 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-“A Failure of the Leadership of the City” -- Rick J. Caruso, developer of the Grove, the Commons and other shopping centers when asked about the recent riots in Los Angeles that caused major damage to his property and others in Metropolitan LA.