BCK FILE--Since his election in 2016, Donald J. Trump has been alleging massive voter fraud by millions of votes in California and other blue states, baseless allegations meant to cause mistrust in our electoral process.
NEW GEOGRAPHY-Long a hotbed of new technologies, California insists on seeing its transit future in the rear mirror.
@THE GUSS REPORT-Just when you think a story has reached its conclusion, something remarkable happens.
CAL MATTERS-The latest conventional wisdom among state political insiders: There’s a good chance a Californian will be on the presidential ticket in 2020, and that Californian is likely to be Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.
ALPERN AT LARGE--One of my life's greatest adventures was the fight to create an Expo Line, which is now one of the most ridden light rail lines in the LA Metro Rail Network
SUPREME POLITICS--While the Republican leadership celebrates the seating of Brett Kavanaugh as a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts yesterday requested the Tenth Circuit to review more than twelve ethics complaints that have been made against Kavanaugh.
POLITICS-On Oct. 6, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the narrowest of margins, with 50 votes in favor and 48 votes against.
EASTSIDER-Is the Sacramento Bee’s “The State Worker” just a shill for the CalPERS establishment, or is it still a legitimate news column?
INSIDE INGLEWOOD--Is Inglewood Mayor James Butts continuing to intimidate city employees to suit his own needs?
CAL MATTERS--It’s perhaps no surprise that apartment owners, real estate interests and corporate landlords have spent $61 million to kill Proposition 10, an initiative that threatens their income by reinstating rent control in California.
ANIMAL WATCH--A Pit Bull attacked a two-month-old baby boy in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles on October 1, leaving the infant in critical condition.
CORRUPTION WATCH-“Build-out” is the term that means any increase in population density will exceed the infrastructure to support it.
Platkin on Planning: LA may be another city in decline, but at least we know what awaits us when we near the bottom:
LA PLANNING POLITICS--I have previously written for CityWatch on the question of fascism in the United States.
MY TURN-There has always been an element of the extreme in every society, and it is usually a smaller group that is often given little attention.
GUEST WORDS--Whenever new protest movements emerge, people look to history for lessons from activists and thinkers who came before.
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CityWatch Today: Alec Baldwin … ‘We Need to Overthrow the Government’
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GUEST COMMENTARY--Fresh from his stint playing President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live,” actor Alec Baldwin called for the “overthrow” of the government — by voting.
The “way we implement change in America is through elections,” Baldwin said Sunday evening at an annual fundraising dinner in Manchester for New Hampshire’s Democratic Party. “And in that orderly and formal way, and lawful way, we need to overthrow the government of the United States under Donald Trump.”
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Evangelical’s Porn Viewing Is on the Rise
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INTEL REPORT--At times, it feels like we're splitting into two separate societies, one of which is dominated by evangelical Christians. So it's reassuring to report that members of that faith tradition have something in common with their fellow Americans: They, too, are watching more pornography.
By their own account, American evangelicals are increasing porn viewership at virtually the same rate other Americans, University of Oklahoma researchers Samuel Perry and Cyrus Schleifer write in the journal Social Science Quarterly.
This rise is driven by people who identify as evangelicals, but do not attend services frequently. Among those who spent significant time in the pews, levels of porn consumption haven't moved from where they were three decades ago.
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