LOS ANGELES

GUEST WORDS-As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and positivity rates have soared across most of California in the last few weeks, political and public health leaders have sounded the alarm with increasingly dire warnings.

ALPERN AT LARGE--There's plenty of blame going around for the current rise in crime, chaos, and the new rise of COVID-19.

@THE GUSS REPORT-The year 2020 is playing out as a worst-case scenario for police everywhere, including at the LAPD and its peers in neighboring communities, as nationwide George Floyd protests became riots that begot the defund the police movement. 

CULTURAL PRESERVATION-On June 29, 2020, the Ventura County Cultural Heritage Board held a “Special Meeting” via the ZOOM platform. The item on this agenda of importance to me was Agenda Item 6b: 

LESSONS ON PEACE FROM SOUTH LA-An innovative program that last summer proved it could make 12 South LA city parks safer for patrons by deploying local residents to patrol those recreation areas is up and running again it was announced today. 

CLIMATE POLITICS-Planetary heat is turning skeptics into climate change worrywarts with record temperatures galore. 

EYES ON THE STREET-From California to New York, the news has not been good. Millions losing their jobs and facing eviction. 

PLANNING WATCH-370 current and former City of Los Angeles employees have signed an open letter to Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council.

EASTSIDER-While the Neighborhood Councils have always been a stepchild to the City, the Virus has evidently given it an excuse to blow off important requirements like handling Public Records Requests. 

ALPERN AT LARGE--Like it or not, the Washington NFL team known for long as the Redskins will change their name.

KEVIN’S CORNER-Here’s a look at five inconsistencies in our "polito-sphere" in 2020, both on the Left. . .and on the Right. 

ONE MAN’S OPINION--In Europe, there were myths about the legitimacy of royalty. 

GUEST WORDS-With the growing movement to Defund the Police and the significance of Black Lives Matters, LA renters are facing many of the issues being raised by these public demands for justice and equality. 

GELFAND’S WORLD--Read it here: Trump says the doctors and the CDC are not being truthful. This all fits in with the following, which was written slightly earlier: 

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT-Big Real Estate keeps pumping millions into campaigns that oppose Proposition 21, the November ballot measure that expands rent control in California.

VOICES-Dear Councilman Krekorian,

PERSPECTIVE-The vote-for-Joe-Biden camp argues that Biden supports democracy, in contrast to Trump, who harbors fascist tendencies.

@THE GUSS REPORT-How angry for justice would you be...

AT LENGTH-Racism is still a problem in America. If you subscribe to the idea of “American Exceptionalism” — the belief that America is exceptional and better than other nations — you are a part of the problem.

ONE MAN’S OPINION--Trump and Pelosi get away with their foul deeds for the same reasons – their respective bases have no concern for Truth Justice and the American Way. 

TOWNHALL -This month marks seven years of Eric Garcetti’s reign as mayor. Those seven years have left many Angelinos hard-pressed to name even a single aspect of our civic life that has improved