LOS ANGELES

GUEST COMMENTARY-For all the die-hard Trump supporters, you have to be a little skeptical when he comes out and says ingest disinfectant to cure Coronavirus. 

CRUDE POLITICS--The smell of crude oil pervaded the air. “Sandbags, and a cleanup crew actively power-washed the oil off Court Street for over 24 hours,” said a resident. 

ALPERN AT LARGE--It is doubtful that the "density warriors" and the "YIMBY's" and all those who confuse development with overdevelopment will reconsider their thinking during or after the Coronavirus pandemic, because...why confuse facts with rightful indignation? Why confuse logical debate with screaming activism.

PERSPECTIVE--The prompt: “you have been muted” said it all.

PUBLIC HEALTH-Los Angeles needs to be self-sufficient by stockpiling everything that is necessary for any disaster.

GELFAND’S WORLD--As many of you have heard, the city of Los Angeles is trying to make its government function in this era of empty sidewalks and closed meeting halls.

PLANNING WATCH-Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, for whom there was, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” today’s homeless and over-crowded find themselves awash in a sea of vacant residential units – continuously expanding -- that they cannot afford.

TENANTS RIGHTS-The CARES Act is supposed to freeze evictions for tens of millions of renters. But nobody’s enforcing the law. 

LOS ANGELES-- With media-saturation coverage of COVID-19, three New York billionaires will try to take advantage, moving quietly and swiftly through approvals to build two skyscrapers on the active Hollywood Earthquake Fault in Los Angeles.

EASTSIDER-At the Monday Investment Committee Meeting, CalPERS staff quietly pulled its Consent Calendar Proposal for further “delegated authority” to staff.

AN ONGOING SERIES-“You can pay me now, or you can pay me later.” -- from FRAM oil filter advertisements. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-All our lives have drastically changed in the past month.

ALPERN AT LARGE--As stated in my last CityWatch piece, we did NOT start this crisis.

GUEST WORDS-The COVID-19 pandemic is different from anything most communities and the business community have ever faced—and yet, in many ways, it’s also a more extreme version of the same challenges we confront every day, the need to reach the more vulnerable communities across Los Angeles County.

GUESTWORDS-As controversies about the “reopening” of America loom over our lives, nothing seems as intrinsically irrelevant -- yet possibly as critically important -- as how soon major spectator sports return. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-It’s all about the testing, LA politicians repeatedly tell us.

ONE MAN’S OPINION-The ubiquitous nature of Corruptionism is what caused our horribly incompetent response to Covid-19 and could result in our society’s demise. 

VOICES-Last month my wife and I walked through Carthay Circle, a neighborhood sandwiched between Fairfax and Beverly Hills between Wilshire on the north and Olympic on the south.

@TheGussReport – Of the many titles people wear during their life, the one for which Lori Golden will most widely be remembered is that of Founder, Chief Editor and Publisher of the widely distributed, San Fernando Valley-based, The Pet Press, the ubiquitous Pennysaver-like newspaper found in every veterinary office, pet adoption center and high-kill pound* across Southern California.

DEEGAN ON LA-In these uncertain bad times, we can see goodness everywhere, showing us that there are many angels in the City of the Angels.

GELFAND’S WORLD--By this I mean something that goes on and on, sometimes becoming horribly painful and always, even for the noncombatants, an enduring irritation – months that creep into years and, in a worst case scenario, half a decade. And every night on the TV news, we are told the latest death toll.