LOS ANGELES

PLANNING WATCH - Wall Street works through advocacy organizations, public officials, and blinkered housing and planning specialists, to fine tune its schemes for extracting even more rent and mortgage payments from the working and middle classes. 

ENVIRONMENT - Los Angeles is built on oil, literally. For most of us the gently tipping pumps provide little more than background motion down the La Cienega corridor and across the basin.

MARC's ANGle - Recently, I explored Emily Hibard’s grandfather’s business being forced to sell their old functional trucks to meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

EASTSIDER - Still running for Mayor, Kevin De Leon is tripling down on using the homeless as centerpiece to his campaign.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - The city of Inglewood has received in excess of $1 million in CDBG/CARES Act funding to provide rent relief for residents struggling to pay their rent. Staff reports suggest the city has only disbursed 10% of those funds.

ERIC PREVEN’S NOTEBOOK - As she steps aboard the Board of City Tourism Commissioners, Germonique Ulmer should sail through the fingerprinting and meet with Paul Koretz her Council member requirement with no trouble -- though, she might meet with Nithya Raman, just in case her San Fernando valley home has shifted districts. 

GELFAND’S WORLD - The Green Bay Packers lost their game to Kansas City on Sunday because Aaron Rogers was too much of a wimp to get the Covid vaccination.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - City of Inglewood officials have appeared to have successfully lobbied LA County Metro to implement more changes to the yet to be opened Crenshaw/LAX rail line. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - When 30% of GOP cannot admit that Trump is a mentally ill and 30% of Dems cannot see how Nancy Pelosi keeps Americans divided, we have a nation which cannot long survive. 

DEEGAN ON LA—The most powerful woman in Los Angeles city politics reaped her rewards on Friday, November 5. It was a landmark day that saw the rags to riches politico (she represents Council District 6 ) wear three crowns simultaneously:

SUPPLY CHAIN - Rescuing Christmas from the supply-chain Grinch won’t be easy. To make it happen, policymakers and business leaders need to take an expansive approach, paying attention to logistics beyond our nation’s clogged-up harbors.

JOBS & HOMELESS - Few Angelenos are thinking about it yet, but seven years from now, the 2028 Olympics are on track to arrive in L.A.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - As much as we all pretty much understand how the COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed much of our civilized, law-abiding history and present-day ills, it's hard not to conclude that L.A.'s so-called "leadership" has presided, if not exploited, the lawlessness that took over during the psychological crisis that's taken most of us to the psychological, if not psychiatric cleaners. 

ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - Julia Louis-Dreyfus is set to star in the comedy Beth & Don.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - Dear 2UrbanGirls, Quick lesson here. As you may know, Karly Katona has been named “caretaker” of LA Council District 10, while Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas fights federal corruption charges.

A VIEW FROM HERE - In reviewing the campaign statements for the Fab Four Los Angeles Mayoral Candidates (Bass, Buscaino, DeLeon and Feuer), there is no discernible policy difference.  Thus, their campaigns are fungible. 

EASTSIDER -  I’ve written about this project a number of times since since it took off (without any real community input) in 2019. 

HOUSING WATCH - In the interest of fairness, this piece was first offered to the publication in which the article being referenced first appeared, “Business Insider.”

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Like it or not, we just prevented and voted down a recall effort against Governor Gavin Newsom, in large part because the issues morphed from financial mismanagement, lack of infrastructure, an explosion of homelessness, and shoving of the middle class out of the Golden State...to a silly focus on vaccination by Larry Elder the main GOP challenger.

PLANNING WATCH - If you can pull yourself away from the daily concerns of many Angelenos, such as traffic jams and Amazon package thieves, you might have heard that life as we know it is at the brink because of a rapidly changing climate. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ - Some Elected and appointed Los Angeles City Hall officials have clearly demonstrated they are out for themselves and lost their commitment to the Voters, Residents and Taxpayers of the once Proud and Internationally known City of the Angels…