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LA School Board Bait n’ Switch was Insulting and Sneaky
Folks, the parents and children of the LAUSD just got the worst bait-and-switch this last and current school year--the parents and school board agreed to a compromise of starting school the week before Labor Day, and then at the last momen…
Mass Transit Experience in LA: If You Build it, They Won’t Come!
CORRUPTION WATCH-Someday, I expect medical science will vindicate my belief that “thinking can physically hurt.” I arrived at this conclusi…
‘Show Your Taxes’—Could California Really Make Presidential Contenders Like Trump Do It?
CALMATTERS--There’s sometimes a fine line between good governance and trolling.
Urgent! We Must Reinstate a National Assault Weapon Ban
HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE-Our thoughts and prayers go out to the nearly 600 victims and their families of the largest mass shooting in U.S. hi…
We Have the Power to Stop the Carnage
BELL VIEW-I have a few friends from my old neighborhood who qualify as legitimate “gun nuts.” Am I afraid these guys are going to snap and…
‘Buy Clean’ Bill Would Swing Climate Change Battle to CA Construction Projects
BUILDING CLEAN-With California doubling and tripling down on climate change as a reality in 2017, a new bill awaiting Governor Jerry Brown’…
California: Late to the Primary Party
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into legislation a bill that would move the 2020 presidential primary to March 3, t…
CEQA: What’s Really Behind CA’s Affordable Housing Shortage?
CALIFORNIA--On Friday, the Governor signed a package of housing bills intended to help address the soaring costs of housing in many metro a…
Garcetti’s LA Mobility Plan 2035 … More Like New York City 1895
CORRUPTION WATCH-Why Is Los Angeles designing a Traffic System for 1895 New York City? Hardly anyone in Los Angeles is paying any attention…
Hepatitis A and the Homeless - A Crisis in the Making?
DEEGAN ON LA-Several times daily you feel the splash of hot water and inhale the scent of soap as you routinely wash your hands after any n…
Huge
THE PREVEN REPORT--By now it's common knowledge in Los Angeles that Harvard-Westlake, an elite private middle and high school, is trying to…
I’ve Been Everywhere … In Search of Transit Solutions
TRANSIT TALK-Call it an obsession with mobility. Chicago, Montreal, New York, Los Angeles and a drive across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penns…
‘Input’ Is NOT the Same as ‘Respect’
ALPERN AT LARGE--Whether it's taxpayer sentiment, parental sentiment, or City/State laws, the tyranny of the minority is just that--tyranny…
Kicked to the Curb: How USC Drove a Bicycle Repairman into the Street
GENTRIFICATION FALLOUT-On a pleasantly warm afternoon, Aaron Flournoy is busy tightening the wheel on a young woman’s bicycle while three o…
LA Animal Rescuers Sentenced for Cruelty, Neglect by Judge Shellie Samuels
ANIMAL WATCH-Two Los Angeles animal rescuers were sentenced on Friday by Superior Court Judge Shellie Samuels after each was found guilty o…
Maybe California has a Couple of Reasons to be Paranoid
CAL MATTERS--Just because you're paranoid, the old saying goes, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
President Garcetti? Surely You Jest
@THE GUSS REPORT-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has a big problem. The “gelatinous one,” so named because he will never give a straight an…
Secrets, Lies, Deception
JUST SAYIN’-Who would disagree that politics is defined by secrets, lies and deception? Not me. At our recent West LA Neighborhood Council…
When a Senator Maligns LA’s Neighborhood Councils, We Should View That as a Good Thing
GELFAND’S WORLD--Over the past week, numerous angry comments have appeared regarding remarks by Kevin de Leon, the state Senate President P…
When Shooter Is White Male, Label of 'Terrorist' Put on Hold
OBSERVER--As law enforcement officials release more information about Stephen Paddock, the suspect in the Las Vegas shooting that killed ne…
