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New Lessons from LA’s McMansion Wars
Despite many “anti-mansionization” ordinances, real estate speculators continue to buy smaller, lower-priced homes, bulldoze them, and then build the real estate equivalent of a Big Mac. They are big, gaudy, everywhere, and replace qualit…
Grocery Giants Like Kroger Are Refusing Employees Hazard Pay
OTHER WORDS-What is it about billionaires and multimillionaires that make them so clueless about the impacts of their greed?
The Other California
NEW GEOGRAPHY-California’s coastal urban centers, once the ultimate land of opportunity, suffer notorious traffic congestion, unaffordable…
Co-Conspirators, All
GUEST WORDS--On the second day of Trump's impeachment trial Wednesday, a parade of eloquent, impassioned Democrats showed chilling video, t…
Senate Republicans in a Lose-Lose Situation
GELFAND’S WORLD--The Republicans in the U.S. Senate are in kind of a lose-lose situation.
Underpinning of the Brown Act for Neighborhood Councils Turns Out to be Bogus
EASTSIDER-We know that enough ink and electrons have been spent arguing about what the Ralph M. Brown Act means for Neighborhood Councils t…
End the Subminimum Tipped Wage
RAISING THE WAGE-If it’s passed by Congress, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief proposal would do a lot more than fund relief payments a…
The “Say It Ain’t So, Joe” Phase of Trump’s Impeachment Trial Is not Materializing (Oops maybe it is)
MY TURN--There is no gainsaying that Rep. Ramin (Jamie) Ben Raskin’s (D-Maryland) Tuesday, February 9, 2021 presentation was masterfully br…
Inglewood Treasurer Files $10 Million Claim Against City, Mayor and Council
SOUTH OF THE 10-Inglewood Treasurer Wanda Brown has filed a $10 million claim against the city of Inglewood, Mayor James T. Butts Jr., and…
Dems Showing Some Muscle
GELFAND’S WORLD--Among the bigger stories of the new year, certainly the biggest so far has been the ability of the Democratic caucus in th…
National vs. Human Security
HUMAN RIGHTS-“It is long past time for. . .a sea change in the United States’ approach to national and human security. . .”
LAPD Forgets Its Eric Garcetti Alibis
@THE GUSS REPORT-For an agency that deals continuously in alibis, the Los Angeles Police Department has difficulty remembering those it tel…
We Need to Talk About These White Texas Pastors Who Referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a 'Jezebel'
SAME WAY JESUS WOULD HAVE HANDLED IT--White conservative America sure had a lot to say about Rev. Jeremiah Wright—and by extension, the Bla…
Justice Clarence Thomas: Time to Pack It In
DEAR JUSTICE THOMAS: You are in your thirtieth year on the Court. You are now its longest serving member.
The COVID-19 Vaccines Work. The Best Side Effect: Surviving the Pandemic!
THE DOCTOR IS IN--I just got my second Moderna vaccination shot yesterday (2/6/2020), and frankly I couldn't wait to get it fast enough.
Dissecting Dueling IGS & PPIC Polls on Prince Gavin
CALBUZZ-A few months ago, when the Coronavirus pandemic was just getting real, a majority of Californians thought Gov. Gavin Newsom was doi…
Anti-Semitism – a Cancer in Congress and a Cancer in California
MY TURN--On Monday, February 1, 2021, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Monday rebuked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling the G…
Without Black Voters, the Campaign to Recall California Governor Newsom is Going to Fail
THE BLACK VOTE-The point at which California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic Party should really be worried about the recall is if Bla…
California is Getting Played Again: Don’t fall for the Recall Newsom Scam
AT LENGTH--The California GOP, after having no majority in the state legislature and none of the statewide offices for the last decade on t…
