LOS ANGELES

SOUTH OF THE 10-The year was 2015 and talks of the NFL coming to Inglewood were brewing. SB Strategies, helmed by Steve Bellheumer, was tasked with putting paid canvassers on Inglewood streets to solicit support for the return of the NFL. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION-The main danger to the inalienable right of liberty on which the nation was founded is the concept that Might Makes Right.

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Whatever the reason, there was a man who recently threatened to jump from a bridge along the Hollywood Freeway causing both north and south bound lanes to be shut down for 11 hours.  

CLIMATE POLITICS---Nick Hanauer, a self-professed capitalist billionaire, spoke at a TED conference only recently. He exposed neoliberalism’s brand of capitalism getting away with murder in plain sight. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION-When a society takes a nosedive, it is not one person’s fault.

NEW GEOGRAPHY-Most American concerns with China revolve around economic issues, and, for some, the threat posed by that country’s expanding military.

ALPERN AT LARGE--True to form, and as I've stated in a recent CityWatch article, President Donald Trump continues to poke the other side, and encourages calls for his ouster, and House Representative Adam Schiff continues to be unprofessional, and appears to be doing his best (unwittingly so, of course) to ensure Trumps’ political survival.

SOUTH OF THE 10-In June, 2UrbanGirls published a Letter to the Editor stating the city was under a special audit from the State Controller’s website.

@THE GUSS REPORT-Government is great at snatching failure from the jaws of success, isn’t it?

GUEST COMMENTARY--In the midst of a tumultuous ideological divorce, it’s best to leave the kids out of it.

ESSAY-It’s no secret that Donald Trump is one of the most aggressive arms salesmen in history. How do we know?

GELFAND’S WORLD--It’s that time of year when two minor states take over all the news. Who is Iowa going to support for the Democratic presidential nominee?

FORCING THE ISSUE-On September 20, 2019, the Aids Health Care Foundation filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) petition against the city of Los Angeles — just four days after receiving a characteristically inadequate denial from the Office of the Mayor.

OTHER WORDS-The Trump EPA wants to introduce a new rule: Its scientists can only use studies that make all of their data public.

MY TURN--Are you there yet?

By “there,” I mean have you at last become a 1 percenter?

NEW GEOGRAPHY-The recent rash of fires, like the drought that preceded it, has sparked a new wave of pessimism about the state’s future.

EL CHAPO WATCH--Just as the post-mortem analyses of the botched capture and release of El Chapo’s son, Ovidio Guzman, was dying down, Mexico suffered another atypical act of violence.

GELFAND’S WORLD--A new article in Talking Points Memo explains the genesis of the Ukraine extortion scandal.

ALPERN AT LARGE-This is the City of the Angels, but the Road to Hell is, as always, paved with good intentions. 

EASTSIDER-Recently at the HHPNC (Historic Highland Park Neighborhood Council) , something weird even by Northeast LA Standards happened.

PLANNING WATCH-Top-down, trickle-down proposals to build our way out of worsening climate, traffic, and homeless crises are metastasizing right-before our eyes.