LOS ANGELES

GELFAND’S WORLD--I sometimes think about writing a series of 49 cent books to explore the thought -- or lack of thought -- that goes on in public discourse.

PLANNING WATCH-According to former President George W. Bush, if you are fooled once, you can’t be fooled again.

THE CITY--Apparently, Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles never noticed that his close partner and fundraising champion, Rick Jacobs, with whom he has been embedded for years, had been sexually harassing his LAPD security detail and tongue kissing journalists without authorization or consent. 

PUBLIC HEALTH POLITICS--A public health watchdog on Wednesday praised California's proposal to add the so-called "forever chemical" PFOA to the state's list of chemicals known to cause cancer. 

NEW GEOGRAPHY-America’s political culture has been shaped by its rural and urban environments, each of which tends to be dominated by one party. Urban Republicans are now as rare as rural Democrats. 

MY TURN--The term Hate Crime is a misnomer since a state of mind cannot be a crime. Thus, hate cannot be a crime. The proper name is not “crime” but “enhancement.”

OTHER WORDS-As our nation grapples with its legacy of anti-Asian racism, it’s important to consider the subtler forms of racism too.

LEANING RIGHT--Contrary to the belief of many, no one single party has cornered the market on compassion to immigrants, including from nations so godawful that they have forced millions of migrants to illegally flee for their lives.

LA HOUSING RIGHTS-In the ongoing debate over banning single-family zoning and turning more people into renters, an important detail has been disturbingly overlooked:

GELFAND’S WORLD--OK, so technically it was 58th and Vermont, but it was a real life miracle in its own way.

THE CITY--The just-released Chaleff report on the Los Angeles Police Department’s actions during the protests following the George Floyd murder in May 2020 find lack of training and preparedness as the culprit for LAPD’s failures –failures that date back to the Democratic Convention demonstration in 2000.  

SPECIAL REPORT-On a breezy February afternoon at the ragged edge of rapidly gentrifying downtown Los Angeles, hipsters walk toy dogs along Pico Boulevard.

MY TURN--For Wokers, Asians are not individual human beings but rather the Asians are pawns to be used and abused in the Wokers’ constant anti-white racism. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Yes, tonight's title is a mouthful. But there is never a shortage of crazy seed in the birdcage of nutty Los Angeles politics. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN--For months now, I've inquired and urged my grocery store clerks and managers to push for their vaccinations.

CLIMATE POLITICS-“The most toxic substance on Earth is separated from exposure to society by ½” of steel encased in a canister.” (Blanch) 

CITY HALL--The big dogs are now officially running for Eric Garcetti's seat.

GUEST COMMENTARY--When your country has a white supremacy problem, it's not bad enough when another young, sick, white, racist guy with a fetish commits mass murder at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, killing six Asian women and two other people;

VOICES-Time and again, the people of Los Angeles have demanded and awaited reform.

EASTSIDER-At Lincoln Heights, the Neighborhood Congress, and BONC, DONE gives advice contrary to their own unilaterally imposed Bylaws, leaves a rudderless Congress, and evidently gives ex parte advice to some Board members contrary to issues that other Board members have raised. 

THE CITY--Back in the Spring months of 2020, Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti established a MEGA Coronavirus testing site at Dodger Stadium.