LOS ANGELES

PLANNING WATCH-Smooth climate change deniers have learned how to appear more “woke” than Donald Trump and his anti-science supporters.  

GUEST WORDS-Los Angeles has an affordable housing crisis. It’s not going to fix itself and it’s not going to get fixed until we elect honest leaders with the will and commitment to actively pursue creative solutions with integrity and transparency.

GELFAND’S WORLD--So far Joe Biden is doing pretty well by running as the non-Trump.

GUEST WORDS--Last year, when LeBron James described some of President Trump’s public statements as “laughable and scary,” Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham ordered the basketball superstar to “shut up and dribble.”

EASTSIDER--Continuing the theme of lawless imposition, let’s take a look at the total absence of due process, moral authority, and frankly, competence, by DONE and BONC. Looks like Lincoln Heights is ground zero. 

GUEST COMMENTARY--An out-of-state political campaign firm specializing in media buying for right-wing clients, including President Donald Trump, is being paid by Michael Weinstein's AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to promote Proposition 21, the anti-housing ballot measure, according to new filings with the California Secretary of State's office and reported by POLITICO. 

@THE GUSS REPORT-Set aside for a moment the huge FBI, LA City Hall corruption stories of recent months in which sleazebag former LA City Councilmember Mitch Englander is headed to federal prison for several years and Jose Huizar is desperately fighting charges that could send him there for the rest of his life. 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-Los Angeles City Councilmember Nury Martinez from the San Fernando Valley’s CD 6 and current Council President was pressed to explain to Spectrum News TV why she needed an LAPD Black and White unit deployed with officers stationed outside her residence for approximately two months with near round-the-clock coverage.

LEANING RIGHT-Just because we keep hearing something again and again and again doesn't mean it's true.

GUEST WORDS--Unlike most other rights, the right to vote does not have obvious or inherent incentives, especially if you believe your vote doesn’t matter or voting is too time-consuming, costly, or a health risk.

AMERICA FIRST-Religion is fading more quickly in the United States than in any other nation, according to a forthcoming research book.

CLIMATE POLITICS--In more than 20 years of living in Southern California, I have never been in a potential fire evacuation zone—until now.

AMERICA TODAY--I woke up this morning to news that was particularly horrific. Forced mass sterilisations at Trump’s concentration camps. I felt nauseous. My stomach lurched. And I don’t say that for effect. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Filed under counting your chickens before they are hatched, let’s consider the fact that Kamala Harris is highly likely to become the next Vice President of the United States of America as Joe Biden wins the presidency.

@THE GUSS REPORT-After a chaotic summer during which Southern California politicians degraded and defunded the very law enforcement agencies which protected their own homes from rioters, their public anti-law enforcement stance has virtually invited violence against the men and women in blue. 

POLITICS OF POLICING-Police in America, whose mottos claim to “protect and serve” us, have been openly declaring allegiance with the forces of white supremacy.

COMMENTARY-Ten years ago, the City – government and stakeholders – was digging itself out of a financial hole created when Wall Street imploded after playing with derivatives fire from the wrong end of the tightrope. 

CAL MATTERS-California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed today to accelerate the state’s efforts to tackle climate change, announcing “this is a climate damn emergency” after surveying the fire-ravaged Oroville State Recreation Area. 

LEANING RIGHT--Congratulations, California, for voting in woker and woker morons to implement lamer and lamer laws.

CHECKS AND BALANCES-When I ponder the likelihood of looming electoral chaos — uncounted votes, a defeated president who won’t leave office, the possible termination of American democracy (coming soon!) — I can’t avoid putting it into a larger context: 

WHAT COUNTS-A deadline is looming. Millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and our democracy all hang on whether we show up to meet it.