ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Here we go again into the middle of Biden's first term with an increasingly shrinking middle class. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - There was a lot of sloganeering on and off agenda at Tuesday's six plus hour board meeting: 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - As was pointed out at the dinner the first part of celebrating the new year is to do a careful accounting of how things have been going.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Paul Koretz, chair:  Okay, with me and Mr. Harris Dawson present, we have a quorum. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - It seemed like an articulate African-American doctor of some kind was being heckled by a white city attorney and complaining, "I've got 17 seconds, Fauble, can you just close it for a second." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Tuesday, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl allocated an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 in Proposition A Excess Funds, available to the Third Supervisorial District to the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum Foundation for La Brea Tar Pits Master Plan Project.  Thank you. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On this week’s supplemental agenda, the Chairwoman of the board of supervisors, Holly J. Mitchell agreed to ask for an extension for a group that at one time identified itself as Plentitude Holdings, LLC.  There's an extra 't' in there, the firm is actually called Plenitude.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Joe Buscaino's Policy Director, Dennis Gleason came in on his birthday, "a true virgo" said Council President Nury Martinez, after the newly installed CD10 representative, Heather Hutt, ran the pledge of allegiance.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK – Tasers are back on people's minds as Chuck Todd's Meet the Press took a deep dive into the debate over policing in America and the death of Anton Black, a star athlete who died in police custody in Maryland.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - We are approaching two and a half years since I last attended a public meeting at City Hall.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Herbs are frequently applied to the treatment of chronic and acute conditions such as cardiovascular disease, prostate problems, depression, and inflammation,

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - It all started on a boondoggle to New York City.  

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Following a record-breaking season of high temperatures across Europe, including Seville, a city of 700,000 in southern Spain, who faced a major heat wave last month with limited air conditioning, a study predicts that hot days will triple by 2053.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - At city hall this week there was an item to provide a donation of surplus equipment including surplus ballistic helmets, 378 surplus ballistic vests, and 1,830 surplus chemical suits at below market value ($1.00). 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - As a writer who has been experimenting with ridiculously long rambling articles intended to keep folks who do not have the time to attend these dangerous public meetings apprised about what is going on,

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - I have delivered millions of words and at least one million too many, for sure, to CityWatch. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Hoteliers were out in force and slapped back a frothy plan to require hotels to house the homeless.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - The late novelist Kurt Vonnegut allegedly turned to his pal Joe Heller at a party on Shelter Island, "This hedge fund manager, whose house we are in made more in a single day than you made on Catch 22 over its whole history, Joe." 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - On Friday, there was something of a cosmic joke as Strefan Fauble, who has certainly done his fair share of the customary garrotting of public speakers in Mayor Garcetti's Temple of Democracy, seemed to have had his microphone shut down.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - Who wants to be the homelessness beat reporter?   What a grim assignment. 

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - A respected journalist, Jeff Jarvis, who identifies as a CUNY professor fired off a 19-tweet salute last week, touting the natural scarcity of quality.