LOS ANGELES

PLANNING WATCH-My favorite punching bag, the Los Angeles Times (LAT) and its invariably inept stories about planning and zoning issues in Los Angeles, recently told its readers that LA’s City Hall has “A New approach to the homeless.”

EASTSIDER-It is no longer unusual to see the fifteen fiefdoms called City Council Districts magically vote 15-0 on virtually everything.

AMERICAN PROTEST-Despite pre-election plywood covering store fronts in cities across the United States, it was total fearmongering that far right militias, Black Lives Matter, or Antifa would initiate street violence during or after the November 3 presidential election. 

LEANING RIGHT--To begin with, while the official state vote/tally counts are not yet resolved, and/or legally held valid by the Supreme Court, congratulations are in order for President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris presuming that the major media outlets' declarations are legally certified. 

THE COST OF PROTECTING AND SERVING-Dear LAPD Chief Michel Moore: I commend you for having the courage to hear the outcries of We the People, to not be afraid to “Take a Knee,”

SOUTH OF THE 10--Attorney Royce K. Jones (photo above) and several members of his family, benefit from their personal relationship with Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr.  Jones’ sister Sheila Jones is paid a six-figure salary, by Inglewood taxpayers, as “ITC Manager” and her daughter is the mayor’s goddaughter and occasional part-time employee in the city’s administration office. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-I was watching the national news on Saturday morning November 7 when it flashed across the TV screen that Joe Biden would become the 46^th President of the United States and Kamala Harris would become the first women Vice President of our nation.

ANALYSIS -In its successful push to stop California’s Proposition 21, Big Real Estate shelled out a shocking $86.2 million to fund a statewide TV ad blitz that confused and tricked voters.

VIEW FROM HERE-Laboring under the misapprehension that America is a democracy, a majority of Americans believe that the majority rules.

GELFAND’S WORLD--Donald Trump is defeated for reelection. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz may have missed the fact that 27% of his colleagues were voted out of office in last week’s local elections or are going to federal prison for years while others posture as paeans of corruption. 

LEANING RIGHT--To begin with, presuming that the current state vote/tally counts are legally held valid by the Supreme Court, congratulations are in order for President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris.

COVID 19 POLITICS-With well over 50 million Covid-19 cases worldwide and more than 1.259 million deaths—about 20% of each in the United States—justice campaigners on Monday responded to promising new data from Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine trial with both tempered enthusiasm and calls for ensuring global accessibility.

VOICES--Of the 15 Council Districts in Los Angeles, there are a few that house the most homeless and have the poorest people.

EDUCATION POLITICS--This Tuesday, November 10, 2020, the Los Angeles School District Board of Education will be hearing a proposal based on a new State law

NEW GEOGRAPHY--California remains deep blue, but the good news from this week’s elections is that it has not yet achieved complete ballot-box unanimity.

VIEW FROM HERE--The elections show that most Americans want extremism to go away.  One of the best things which happened to Joe Biden is that under the tutelage of Nancy Pelosi, the Dems lost seats in the House of Representatives.

CLIMATE POLITICS-A notable satellite-telephonic call to colleagues in late October from Swedish scientist Örjan Gustafsson of Stockholm University briefly described a haunting discovery.

@THE GUSS REPORT-It is the morning after Election Day 2020. The world awaits the outcome of the race between President Donald J. Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

PLANNING WATCH-Former President George W. Bush was ridiculed for mangling the famous aphorism, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

GELFAND’S WORLD--If Donald Trump takes a loss in Arizona and in Nevada (Biden is leading in both as of this writing), then Joe Biden is the next President of the United States.