LOS ANGELES

SKID ROW-The intricately detailed, in-depth, historical analysis within the 110-page preliminary injunction issued recently by Federal Judge David O. Carter (photo above, center) clearly identifies the roles both the City of LA and LA County have played in masterminding structures of racism through policies, laws, ordinances and more.

CLIMATE POLITICS-Our Planet, Our Future is the title of the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit. As a follow up to that summit, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine recently published Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call for Action d/d April 29, 2021. 

NEW GEOGRAPHY--Even as vaccination increases across the United States and an end to the tragedy of the Covid-19 pandemic seems in sight, the economic, fiscal, political, and geographic fallout from the virus cannot be overstated:

NC VOTER SUPPRESSION--This Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at the Los Angeles’ City Council’s Arts, Parks, Health, Education, and Neighborhoods Committee meeting, the Committee will consider Council File # 21-0407, offered by Councilmember Monica Rodriguez (photo above). 

GUEST COMMENTARY--An effort to recall Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman was launched yesterday, according to a group calling themselves the Los Angeles City Council District 4 Neighborhood Coalition.

GUEST WORDS-The first neighborhood council board was seated in 2002, and since then the neighborhood councils have collectively failed to live up to one important expectation -- to fundamentally improve government. 

PLANNING WATCH--Los Angeles, like the rest of the United States, is obsessed by crimes perpetrated by people at the bottom of society. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--A memory: Walking out of a restaurant in the early evening of October 7, 2003, I noticed a long line of people on the other side of the street.

RANTZ & RAVEZ-The long list of associated problems throughout California are related to the actions or inactions of elected and appointed officials of our city and state.

THE CITY-The Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Alex Villanueva three minutes to speak at Tuesday's board meeting.

COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS--If you live in California and still use legacy Plain Old Telephone Service (“POTS”) from AT&T, you are likely getting ripped-off big time.

GUEST COMMENTARY- The Los Angeles City Council is the highest paid city council in the nation. It has been ever since councilmembers’ salaries were tied to the salaries of Superior Court Judges.  

EASTSIDER-The developer slime on this one seemingly has no end. I have written about it a couple of times before.

VIEW FROM HERE-People do not make decisions based on what is true but based on what makes them feel good.

TRANSIT TALK-Metro is undergoing studies for a mass transit system for the Sepulveda Pass.  

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--Palm Springs isn’t just a great place to spend a weekend. It’s one of our last and most fervent defenders of what California really is—not what it pretends to be. 

AFFORDABLE HOUSING-Housing Is A Human Right has compared market-rate rent prices to what residents are earning in several California cities and the findings aren’t surprising: the rent is still too damn high.

GELFAND’S WORLD--The Democrats have 48 votes in the senate plus Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.

LOS ANGELES-There is nothing more boring than a budget hearing schedule.

PERSPECTIVE-Basically, Derek Chauvin was convicted of enforcing the status quo. Because his behavior was caught on video — his knee on George Floyd’s neck, oh my God, choking him to death — and looked so disturbing to most of the public, official American “justice” had to take some sort of action. 

VIEW FROM HERE--Generally, litigation is between two parties.  After Jack runs a red light smashing into Bette’s car, Bette sues Jack for damages.