VOICES

HOUSING ACTIVIST - Activists in Pasadena, California, took a huge step to pass rent control in their city – and to finally rein in unfair, excessive rents.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - As a dermatologist, I understand first-hand Will Smith's outrage over Chris Rock's comments about "GI Jane 2" when referencing Will Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

GUEST COMMENTARY - The rhetoric of a war on Russian oil and gas would be powerful and would expose congressmen and senators who dragged their feet to charges of aiding the enemy. 

GUEST COMMENTARY - I remember the sanctions era in Iraq very well. And when the former U.S. secretary of state said the death of 500,000 children in the country "was worth it," I remember that too.

OP ED - “I’m scared all the time, even in my sleep.” I will never forget the teary-eyed 8-year-old who told me that — one of the bravest young people I’ve ever met.

GUEST COMMENTARY - In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy. 

HOUSING WATCH - A recent study shows that in cities where people spend more than 32 percent of their take-home pay on rent, a spike in homelessness will follow.

CONFIRMATION HEARING - It’s somewhere between comical and tragic watching the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.

PANDEMIC ANALYSIS - Two years ago I was panicking, making hundreds of phone calls to postpone my wedding that was a few days away. It was March 2020.

OIL INDUSTRY - Long used to cheap gas at the pump, Americans are experiencing serious sticker shock these days.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Some readers may have seen the graphic showing oil company revenues since last year:

LETTER TO THE EDITOR - We are writing concerning Bob Gelfand’s article of March 21, 2022, entitled “LA City Goes Full-On Fascist in Neighborhood Council Forced Indoctrination Proposal” which contains gratuitous anti-Scientology bigotry.