LOS ANGELES

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Take a good look at the photo above and you’ll see:

CAL MATTERS--The pipeline of women qualified to serve on corporate boards is overflowing with talented, smart, well-educated candidates.

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--I wish California children were doing as well as California children’s hospitals.

FIRST PERSON-The Social Studies teacher in me says it would be a big mistake to try and figure out ...

CORRUPTION WATCH-Lawyers like the Law of Threes. You’ve heard them use it: “I hereby give, transfer, and grant to you my red Corvette.”

PRESERVING THE PAST-On Wednesday, September 12, the Los Angeles Conservancy and Miracle Mile Residential Association submitted an application to the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission to nominate Tom Bergin’s Old Horseshoe Tavern and Thoroughbred Club (more recently known as Tom Bergin’s House of Irish Coffee) as an Historic Cultural Monument. 

BCK FILE-Last Wednesday, online news outlet The Intercept reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein was in possession of a letter detailing an attempted sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

GELFAND’S WORLD--Political purists like to talk about fundamentals that -- more than personalities or policies -- determine electoral outcomes.

@THE GUSS REPORT-If the government of the City of Los Angeles wanted to make its First Amendment troubles even worse than they were last week, it is doing a fine job of that as it seeks to tighten decorum rules on potty-mouthed critics at its public meetings. 

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE-Anybody who's dealt with the Department of City Planning (DCP) in recent years knows that the quality of their environmental assessments is questionable. 

SOCIAL JUSTICE POLITICS-Saturday morning the stage was set for a toe-to-toe battle between two men running to be the next Los Angeles County Sheriff, arguably the most powerful political position in Los Angeles. 

DIRTY POLITICS--In the debate over Proposition 10, UC-Berkeley Professor Kenneth T. Rosen is not the independent expert he wants Californians to believe he is.

EASTSIDER-When the City Council can’t achieve a 15-0 vote by their usual “Brown Act? What Stinkin’ Brown Act” methods, the result gets messy … very messy.

CHATMATES--This is a response to Bob Gelfand’s piece, “Taking Issue with the Author Who Has Issues… With How the Left Presents Itself.” 

BELL VIEW--Just before retiring from the Supreme Court in 2010, Justice Stevens took one last crack at Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy.

CORRUPTION WATCH-The County of Los Angeles has revealed another aspect of the Garcetti’s housing fraud.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Is everyone fit for college? Is everyone going to be working in the tech world? The answer is NO. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--It's the ultimate irony -- watching professional climate-change deniers quoting the predictions of modern science.

RANTZ & RAVEZ-In my last CityWatch article on August 30, I wrote about a Rave (a good deed) and how I assisted a man in search of his wife’s purse and cell phone after she forgot them in a shopping cart and drove off.

PLATKIN ON PLANNING-Los Angeles’s sidewalks are far more than broken-down, unsafe concrete slabs long ignored and now overdue for major repairs.

CAL MATTERS--As fate would decree, both of California’s U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, both played starring roles in last week’s confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and both had personal political agendas. (Photo above: Senator Kamala Harris, left, with Senator Dianne Feinstein.)