LOS ANGELES

SOUTH LOS ANGELES-For the second time in seventh months, the Black community has beaten back efforts to purchase the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza by developers connected to Donald Trump’s family members.

@THE GUSS REPORT-There are silver linings to be found in local politics.

EASTSIDER-As the brain trust of DONE feeds top-down trash to BONC in the insanity of their “Proposed Resolution by the Board of Neighborhood Commissioners Approving the Digital Communication Policy for the Neighborhood Councils,” their illness must be spreading to some of the Neighborhood Councils.

LEANING RIGHT--Everyone knows it (at least if they're from California) that Californians are smarter than Texans. 

PLANNING WATCH-A reader asked me to review Abundant Housing’s Fair LA housing plan.

CAPITAL & MAIN PERSPECTIVE--Long before the pandemic hit, California’s homeless issues were startlingly obvious.

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-Billionaires Stephen Schwarzman and Sam Zell must love Gov. Gavin Newsom, political consultant Ace Smith, and the California Apartment Association right now.

TONY CASTRO’S AMERICA-During the recession, what once were small strip malls in Los Angeles have become multi-service garages filled with repair shops specializing in tires, mufflers, brakes, front end alignment – like Victoria Secret departments for your car. 

VIEW FROM HERE--The constitutional provisions of the Electoral College [EC] and the 3 US Code § 15's elaboration run almost 1,540 words. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-“The story of methane really is a story of a very serious definitive threat to our future existence on this planet.” (Peter Wadhams) 

GELFAND’S WORLD--As of 4 PM today, December 14, 2020, it was over. The electoral votes were officially cast and Joe Biden received a majority. He only needed 270 to win. 

GUEST WORDS-Too many have died because our country’s preexisting conditions of systemic injustice have gone untreated for so long and those in power never seem to learn the applicable lesson of this moment.

@THE GUSS REPORT-As 2020's COVID restrictiveness winds down to the imminent arrival of vaccines and a freer 2021, the consequences of California's lying, hypocritical politicians are evident as ever. 

GUEST COMMENTARY-“The scope of corruption outlined in this indictment is staggering,” said U.S. Attorney Nick Hanna.

LEANING RIGHT--It's both funny and sad how those of us decrying the hideously awful expenditures of Measures H and HHH are accused of being "the problem" of not caring about the homeless, which occur due to one of two reasons: 

AT LENGTH-A small group of “Recall Newsom” protestors were gathered on 6th Street in San Pedro on the night of the recent stay-at-home order issued by the governor’s office.

VIEW FROM HERE--America’s current problems can be reduced to two causes: The Democrats and the Republicans.  Both parties are governed by their most extreme element in a bid to seize power and vanquish the other party.  

420 FILE-Limiting LA’s retail and delivery cannabis licensing to only social equity applicants until Jan. 1, 2025 represents a significant and impactful change to our community.

SKID ROW-Maybe folks haven’t been paying attention to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “antics” under the guise of being Mayor, but “We, the People of Skid Row” are shocked at his blatant “Escape to D.C.” tactics which have been on full display for well over a year now. 

GUEST COMMENTARY-“The scope of corruption outlined in this indictment is staggering,”

Planning Watch:  When Albert Einstein famously observed, “God does not play dice with the universe,” his insight about universal laws of physics also applies to human affairs.