LOS ANGELES

CULTURE POLITICS-For the past 11 years, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has withheld from public view the details of its plans for a new building spanning Wilshire Boulevard that will replace the four buildings now demolished.

JAY ON LA-Wanna know why Republicans are blocking the 2 trillion-dollar continuation of the CARES Act that Congress passed last March? 

GELFAND’S WORLD--So they went and did it. My guess (and it was only a guess) was right on – the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and they made sure to do it before the national election was over.

EASTSIDER-I don’t know how many people remember the Wizard of Oz, but after a long and heroic quest, Dorothy discovers that in the end the all-powerful Wizard is in fact a kinda pitiful human being.

DECISION 2020--It’s a fact both heartening and heartbreaking at the same time.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Most of us have played the game of Monopoly at some point in our lives.

LEANING RIGHT-People gotta live. People gotta eat. People gotta work. Unfortunately, people gonna die (and always have). 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Thousands of political commercials on TV and radio will soon end and we will return to some degree of normalcy. 

VIEW FROM HERE--The predatory racism of Inclusionary Policies attack Blacks, Hispanics and Whites. 

GELFAND’S WORLD-- …I voted. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-A bully is someone dumb enough to eventually pick on the wrong person and whose misbehavior is finally noticed by the right person. 

GUEST COMMENTARY--On October 21, LA City Councilmembers Blumenfield, Buscaino, Rodriguez, Krekorian, Price, Cedillo, and Lee presented a motion to drastically expand the criminalization and banishment of unhoused Angelenos across the city.

PERSPECTIVE-Should the state override the zoning preferences of local communities?

AFFORDABLE HOUSING-We need more affordable housing.

VIEW FROM HERE--While we love to flatter ourselves by intoning inane platitudes, the two greatest dangers for America are Faith and Democracy run amuck.

LEANING RIGHT-Being liberal should be, to all extents and purposes, "open-minded to all ideas, new and old".

DECISION 2020--Over the last several months, the real estate industry has shelled out nearly $84 million in campaign cash to kill California’s Proposition 21.

DECISION 2020-I began working on issues of homelessness fifteen years ago out of necessity.

SPECIAL REPORT--The drug store giant’s CEO has been cutting corners while rewarding himself handsomely.

PLANNING WATCH-Letters-to-the-editor often present political viewpoints that newspapers usually keep under wraps.

@THE GUSS REPORT-What would you do if a veterinarian encouraged you to kill your cat but didn’t provide life-saving services for which they billed, falsely claimed urine on her coat indicated jaundice and shockingly discouraged you from being there when the cat’s life is taken at their recommendation?