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Preservation Playbook – Could ‘Hollywood Heritage’ Become an Oxymoron?
And they reinforce the great interest in what is reflected about our past that we are leaving behind as we speed forward in this over-amped world. Overlay this recall process with the word “Hollywood” and you get a hurricane of memories an…
Subsidized Granny Flats: LA Testing New Approach to Fighting Homelessness
California's budding YIMBY movement is up for a real test. Under a new pilot program approved last week, Los Angeles County homeowners are…
The Cost of Silence: How a Wealthy LA Democratic Donor Muted an Entire Political Party
REVEALED--The silence from LA’s Democratic community on the recent death of a 26-year-old Black gay male escort in the West Hollywood apart…
The Usual Anti-Transit Suspects: Still Wrong ... But Not ALL Wrong
GETTING THERE FROM HERE--As outlined in my last CityWatch article, the problems facing Angelenos and other Californians are mainly local/st…
Trump Screwed Up Democracy, Silicon Valley Will Finish the Job
NEW GEOGRAPHY--When Democrats made their post-election populist “Better Deal” pitch, they took a strong stance against pharmaceutical and f…
All Thoughts Not Golden … There is LA Angst Over the Olympics
CAPITAL & MAIN REPORT--For Mayor Eric Garcetti and the rest of the bid committee working to bring the Summer Olympics back to Southern…
Congress of Neighborhoods Needs to Tackle the BIG Issues
JUST ASKIN’-Once a year, volunteers from LA’s neighborhood council system get together and orchestrate an NC "Congress."
Could the Uptick in California Crime Make It a Political Football Again?
CAL MATTERS-In the main, issues that dominate any session of the California Legislature reflect what the public and news media consider at…
Free Speech and the Right to Assemble: No Need for a ‘Mother May I’ Permit
EASTSIDER-Coming out of the free speech/anti-war movement of Berkeley in the 60’s, I hoped that we, as a society, had already tested the bo…
How to Deal with the World’s First Troll-Based Presidency
BELL VIEW-What is a troll? I’ve been accused of being one myself – although I never thought I fit the profile. In fact, it took me forever…
Is California Hiding the Truth about Our Mentally Ill
GETTING THE FACTS-Recently there was a story on local NPR affiliate KPCC about how the homeless population, which disproportionately suffer…
Is LA for Sale? Mayor Solicits Millions for His Favored Causes
KPCC SPECIAL REPORT--Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti — a longtime critic of big money in local politics — has set a surprising city record…
Los Angeles: Who Has the Right to Live in the City?
GUEST WORDS—In 1950 my parents and grandmother were able to afford to buy a duplex for us to live in for $11,000 a mile north of the LaBrea…
Spay and Neuter War Heads to Local Dog Parks
NEIGHBORHOOD POLITICS-There is a war going on in Long Beach, a war fought in the most unlikely of places: the dog park. It can be seen in t…
There’s a Force Destroying California’s Quality of Life and It’s Not the Orange Man in the White House
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE--In my last CityWatch article, I reminded everyone that the need to create transportation/infrastructur…
Corporate Greed: I’m Blacking You Out!
STAND UP AND BE COUNTED-What has regrettably become the sole motivation behind using technology to communicate with customers, is not what…
Anti-Semitism: The Elephant On the Boardwalk
THIS IS WHAT I KNOW--Yesterday, I joined the ‘Alt Right is Not Alright’ March in Venice -- and knew I’d write an article about my experienc…
LA Animal Comish Considers Removing Breed ID from Dog Kennel Cards to Increase Pit Bull Adoptions
ANIMAL WATCH-Two LA Animal Services' Commissioners appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti propose that potential adopters should not be informed…
LA: Google’s Fail and Teacher Jail
PC POLITICS--Without going through another weedy analysis of James Damore’s firing from Google – Holman Jenkins, George Leef and Nick Gille…
Los Angeles: The Rodney King Riots from a Korean-American Perspective
LOS ANGELES--Though the beating of Rodney King that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots occurred in the Northwest Valley, the epicenter of t…
