LOS ANGELES

RANTZ & RAVEZ-We have all witnessed the recent changing attitudes of family members, neighbors, and friends.

EASTSIDER-Dear Governor Newsom: Since you control, directly or indirectly, the majority of the CalPERS Board, it is likely that you would be blamed if there’s a major CalPERS crisis. Thus, this letter. 

REVIEW-Michael Moore and Jeff Gibbs's new film is so full of weak analysis, misinformation, and misplaced invective that I worry it will cause more harm than good.  

ONE MAN’S OPINION-There are varying degrees of destruction.

GELFAND’S WORLD--There are a few points that have been established pretty soundly about the epidemic: 

COUNTERPUNCH-Bernie Sanders has routinely called Trump a “pathological liar.”

DEEGAN ON LA-The 50th Anniversary of Earth Day was recently celebrated on April 22.

PUBLIC HEALTH POLITICS-The image above, is to me, an example of “Best Practices” for a pharmacy -- a glassed-in barrier with minimal openings for prescriptions, and pharmacy personnel wearing face masks and disposable gloves. 

ALPERN AT LARGE--It's again worthy of repetition--my suggestion that (and it's hardly mine alone) if you want to be a partisan hack, you certainly can be...but you're probably not likely to help anyone. 

@TheGussReport – In recent weeks, this column documented LA City Council president Nury Martinez’s struggle to embrace the tedium of her leadership role as one of the most powerful local lawmakers in the United States.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Stop cutting down trees for biomass. . .STOP WOODY BIOMASS!

AN ONGOING SERIES--Twice in recent years the LACERS Board has rejected the recommendation of its expert, longtime actuary to lower its annual investment earning assumption to 7.00%. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION-The SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is the name of the virus, while Covid-19 is the name given to the disease.

AT LENGTH-The thing about a crisis is that it brings out both the best and the worst in people.

INSIDER REPORT--I wasn’t at all surprised when former LA City Councilman Mitchell Englander was caught up in a City Hall corruption probe and pleaded guilty to a charge that will almost certainly lead to a prison term.  

DEATH WATCH-Los Angeles reports that its county’s low-income COVID deaths are triple the number of those of wealthier neighborhoods.

PLANNING WATCH-The modern lesson of the story of the Trojan horse is to be wary of unexpected gifts, knowing that Greek forces at war with Troy gave the city a faux peace offering, a hollowed out horse statue secretly filled with their troops.

SOUTH OF THE 10--The city of Inglewood has reached 311 positive COVID-19 cases on April 29th.  

EASTSIDER-Ineptitude is too kind a word for DONE’s actions ever since they canceled all Neighborhood Council meetings and thus disempowered the thousands of NC stakeholders and Board members from doing the very tasks they are in a unique position to help with. 

AN ONGOING SERIES-Immediately after my appointment as General Manager was confirmed by the City Council, several of the Councilmembers kindly congratulated me.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Celebrating 50 years of Earth Day, Michael Moore, executive producer and the director Jeff Gibbs re-released their daunting and alarming documentary about the heart and soul of America’s Green Movement in a compelling film: “Planet of the Humans” (2019).