LOS ANGELES

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.

GUEST WORDS-It is not easy driving a taxi in Los Angeles. The city is expensive to live in, our gas prices continue to increase, and we all know how difficult it is to get around. But what makes it even harder for taxi drivers is that the city government is acting like they want our industry to die. 

DEEGAN ON LA-The liberal left likes to call us a “sanctuary city,” but everyone, no matter where they sit on the political spectrum, can see what we really are starting to look like: a third-class city.

AT LENGTH-I was at the Little Italy fandango put on by Councilman Joe Buscaino when one of our newest civic leaders engaged me in some repartee about my latest article on the Bukowski bronze. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION-The California Supreme Court case of American Philatelic Soc. v. Claibourne (1935) 3 Cal.2d 689, 698-699 says, “When a scheme is evolved which on its face violates the fundamental rules of honesty and fair dealing, a court of equity is not impotent to frustrate its consummation because the scheme is an original one.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-A year away from Election Day, the real estate industry is already gearing up for a pitched battle against the housing justice movement in California.

ALPERN AT LARGE--As aforestated in a previous and recent CityWatch article, we're in a cultural and educational "Denaissance", and in a world increasingly rife with blind faith and false narratives that seek to confuse, confound, and ultimately divide us.