LOS ANGELES

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-With the recent unveiling of the COVID-19 relief package, the Biden Administration made a simple, yet extraordinary statement: housing is a right.

EASTSIDER-Scratch the politics. Let’s talk about real life and death. 

PLANNING WATCH-Last week I explained why LA’s updated General Plan Housing Element (i.e., chapter) was a big bamboozle, a cavalier exercise to reverse engineer zone changes that further enrich real estate speculators already profiting from a housing boom. 

GUEST COMMENTARY-Despite Biden's high approval numbers and Trump's plummeting ones and nine of ten Americans slamming the Capitol riot,

OTHER WORDS-In the interest of stemming the QAnon conspiracy theories about Satanist pedophile rings in Hollywood, I’d like to share my experience with actual Satanists in Hollywood.

PERSPECTIVE--Maybe I hit my head on the tree limb harder than I thought, or did I get a glimpse of the Biden-McConnell Co-Presidency? 

GUEST COMMENTARY-Some people like attention. But remember the old adage: Fools’ names and fools’ faces often appear in public places. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Some of my colleagues and a lot of Trump supporters have been arguing something along these lines: OK, so he was tone deaf and did a few bad things, but what about the good things he did? 

THE DOCTOR IS IN! There's a lot of politics and bloviating right now, as there should be--but the downfall of Donald J. Trump and the rise of Joe Biden rested, and still does rest, on one thing ONLY: 

CORONA POLITICS-While most companies claim they put customer service ahead of everything, those of us who spend hours trying to resolve issues with our banks, our health insurers, our telephone companies, know that's not true. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--An attempt at an opening paragraph: 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Welcome to the Presidency of the United States, Joe Biden! This mess is now your mess. Like each of your predecessors, you must play the hand you are dealt.