VOICES

GUN LEGISLATION - You may find this shocking, but a little over a decade ago I spent a weekend learning how to shoot a handgun — under the auspices of the NRA.

LA HOUSING CRISIS - NIMBYs.  We’re everywhere, from Chatsworth to Boyle Heights, from Venice to Griffith Park. 

MY THOUGHTS - Just when all the naysayers have us convinced the USA is going to Hell in two very large wheelbarrows (after all we are two very polarized political sectors) something good happens. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - In what could be a game changer for slowing climate change,

ECONOMY - Republicans believe their laser focus on inflation in the midterms will override voter anger over the attempted coup;

THE ECONOMY - Oligarchs of the dominate economic class in the United States continue to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of politicians.

GUEST COMMENTARY - It’s popular today to talk about the “common good” or the “public good.”

GUEST COMMENTARY - At a time of children with popsicle-covered faces running around and summer music festivals– many are celebrating the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IMMIGRATION WATCH - Amid the bustle of Tijuana, the average onlooker might miss the bulge in Claudia’s belly.

GUEST COMMENTARY - I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy.  –Theodor Adorno 1959

THE VIEW FROM HERE - No one will ask any witness whether Donald Trump is mentally ill. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - When you give a man a gun, the result is almost always killing and death.