LA ELECTION 2022 - When embattled L.A. city councilman Mike Bonin decided against running for a third term, few would have predicted that the candidate he endorsed to replace him in the decidedly hot seat of district 11 would come out on top in last week's primary election. 

HOUSING CRISIS - These days, I keep being copied on some very persuasive letters, loaded with the requisite amount of well-researched technical jargon and neighborhood outrage,

SOUTH OF THE 10 - One man was killed, and two others injured in what authorities are calling a gang-related shooting Tuesday evening in the unincorporated Florence-Firestone area near South Gate.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - New resources are available for small businesses in the Vernon-Central and surrounding South LA community, as the Southeast Los Angeles BusinessSource Center celebrated its grand opening on Tuesday, May 31.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Metro says it has a plan. 

HOUSING CRISIS - Gil Cedillo couldn’t shut his office door. Something was in the way. It was Rosario Hernandez’s foot.

THE EASTSIDER - My Interview with Kenneth Mejia: I can see why the Times endorsed Kenneth. 

RANDOM LENGTHS NEWS - The harbor district has always held some kind of mystique for the rest of Los Angeles, like the highly classified United States Air Force facility, Area 51, in north Las Vegas —

GUEST COMMENTARY - One of the basic tenets of our democracy in this country is that we are able to vote for proposed regulations though Ballot Initiatives and for folks to represent us and hold office. 

HOUSING CRISIS - It’s only May and our City Council has already voted twice this year to approve the politically motivated, astronomically wasteful, and unnecessary assault on our Coastal environment at The Gateway to Venice Beach known as the Pacific-Dell Median Project.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - Members of the union representing thousands of Los Angeles County workers have voted to authorize a strike if labor talks fail to progress, the union announced Friday.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - As Inglewood continues to scramble for loose change in the couch cushions, residents are steadily making their way back to the Main Library’s lecture hall to participate in the weekly city council meetings.

THE EASTSIDER - As it turns out, it has been easier than I thought. 

SOUTH OF THE 10 - A small group of influential business owners staged a multi-person protest in front of City Hall today.

THE EASTSIDER - Two issues are becoming very clear.  First, Metro is going to vote to go ahead with an unnecessary NoHo to Pasadena BRT. 

SOUTH OF THE 10 – The Inglewood Police Department is requesting a one-year extension with Hawthorne Police Department, with the option for an additional year, for “high profile” events. 

ELECTION WATCH - When I came to Venice forty years ago, the community was in city council district six, which also encompassed the predominately white Westchester area and the majority-Black Crenshaw district.

THE EASTSIDER - As I pointed out in an earlier post, LAHSA has been officially around since 1993, when LA County and the City of Los Angeles created LAHSA as a joint powers authority to deal with the homeless.

SO VENICE BLVD - Like many in Venice this story is sadly becoming the rule versus the exception if you reside by the Library and specifically Centennial Park.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - Inglewood residents protested in front of Warren Lane Elementary School after the district decided to close it without community input.

THE EASTSIDER - As the LA Times proudly announced on April Fools Day.