LOS ANGELES

@THE GUSS REPORT-Disgraced LA City Councilmember Jose Huizar and his wife Richelle Rios Huizar (photo above) both have law degrees from the UCLA School of Law, which U.S. News and World Report ranks as the 15^th best in the United States.

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-For Essex Property Trust CEO Mike Schall, it’s all about the money — no matter who gets hurt.

GUEST COMMENTARY-The American “justice” system has always appalled me as being too often one of injustice and oppression, one of retribution and incarceration.

POLITICS NAME GAME-In the devastating aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, many young Americans who felt betrayed by capitalism were introduced to socialism by Bernie Sanders' presidential campaigns.

AN OPEN LETTER TO CONGRESS: The CDC website shows: “People Who Are at Higher Risk for Severe Illness”: 

ONE MAN’S OPINION--Los Angeles’ vast corruption which the FBI is working very hard to conceal, is systemic.   

AT LENGTH-It has never been more apparent in my lifetime just how interconnected we all are.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Can’t people add? Or do they choose not to? 

EASTSIDER--I don’t mean to be harsh.  Really I don’t. But the recent City Council’s falling all over themselves to Black Lives Matter is a fake strategy. 

PLANNING WATCH-In Los Angeles the growing numbers of For Rent signs and homeless encampments are not random events.

ALPERN AT LARGE--Ever wonder if the mayors of major cities actually WANT President Trump re-elected?

@THE GUSS REPORT-This column tried to call into Tuesday’s LA City Council meeting just hours after it was announced that another of its own, Jose Huizar, had been arrested on RICO/racketeering charges. (Former Councilmember Mitch Englander is expected to change his federal corruption plea to guilty in early July.) 

RANTZ & RAVEZ-“A Failure of the Leadership of the City” -- Rick J. Caruso, developer of the Grove, the Commons and other shopping centers when asked about the recent riots in Los Angeles that caused major damage to his property and others in Metropolitan LA. 

SKID ROW-In light of recent events, "We, the People of Skid Row" feel the need to speak out about what's happening in our community. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Bill Hopkins was a man with a dry sense of humor and a passion for improving the lot of his fellow humans.

CLIMATE POLITCS--Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts have hit the Amazon rainforest throughout paleoclimate history, but this time it’s different.

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA--There may be no better symbol of Sacramento’s failure as California’s capital than the 18-foot-tall stainless-steel sculpture outside the city’s downtown sports arena.

GUEST COMMENTARY-Los Angeles does not need so much a defunding of the LAPD as a transition of their mission back to one of civic engagement and public protection. 

DEEGAN ON LA-The lights that have been out in vacant apartments and condos across Los Angeles may start to burn brightly if voters approve a vacancy, or “empty home,” ballot measure if it appears in the November election. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--How did Donald Trump do on his grand comeback tour this weekend?

REAL ESTATE POLITICS-Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Residential and Equity LifeStyle Properties, is worth $4.8 billion.