LOS ANGELES

EDUCATORS - Did you hear that a well-attended protest this week by L.A. teachers for improved pay featured parents who spoke out to support them? 

THE EASTSIDER - The votes are in and counted and the winner has been declared in the race for Mayor of Los Angeles. 

DOING BUSINESS IN LA - As the second-largest city in the U.S. after New York and the most popular city in California, Los Angeles (L.A.) is a hub for businesses to start and thrive.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Several studies have indicated that many homeless men suffer from traumatic brain injury. 

LA TRANSPO - A recent survey conducted by Metro shows a decrease in women ridership.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Shortly before 2:00 a.m. on June 17, 1972, Watergate security guard Frank Wills found paper stuffed into the doors to the garage levels B2 and B3. Upon investigation, he found a door to the Watergate office building taped open.

LA DIGITAL SIGNAGE - Who would ever guess that a program titled “Transportation Communications Network” would actually be a plan to construct 97 digital billboards across Los Angeles?

LABOR WATCH - Nearly 50,000 academic workers at the University of California launched a historic strike on November 14 after contract negotiations with their employer failed.

VETERANS ADMIN LAWSUIT - Disabled, unhoused veterans are suing to force the West LA VA to provide permanent housing and remove noncompliant leases from the West LA VA campus.

THE EASTSIDER - As this article was being prepped for posting, it was announced that Karen Bass won the Mayor’s race.  However, it still clear that Angelenos are seriously divided. 

HOUSE EVICTION - We are heartbroken and outraged by the news of a tenant in Hollywood who tragically took their own life in the face of losing their home when 2 sheriff officers, a building manager, and a locksmith showed up at their door to forcibly evict them.

REFORMS LA - Albert Einstein saw a crisis not as a time to panic and act irrationally, but as an opportunity for us to find the very best in ourselves and become inventive.

RantZ and RaveZ - As the months pass and we approach the end of 2022, the Los Angeles City crime picture continues to claim more victims as reflected by the October 29th LAPD crime statistics. 

LAUSD EDUCATION - While some kids will succeed despite the purposeful, generational, and unaccountable incompetence of LAUSD's generational monkey business as usual,

EDUCATION WATCH - In the Los Angeles Unified School District, some 50 public schools share their campuses with charter schools. It is often a contentious relationship.

DEEGAN ON LA—The future of LA politics has arrived ahead of schedule, even before the November 8 election. The Old Guard is being unceremoniously pushed aside by a New Wave of tidal proportions.

LA TRANSPO - To those of us who followed the recent adoption of the new City street furniture program “STAP” (Street and Transit Amenity Program), the emergence of yet another advertising program “IKE” (Interactive Kiosk Experience) comes as no surprise. 

LA CITY GOVERNMENT - Listening to the recording of ex-councilmember Nury Martinez:

THE VIEW FROM HERE - When something breaks, people look for the cause, believing that if they find out what caused the problem, then they know how to fix it.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Last week Ron Galperin released another of his excellent reports, this time dropping the bombshell on the Mayor and City Council that they really, truly MUST improve emergency preparedness – people, plans and provisions – for the people of Los Angeles. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - About eight percent (8%) of the city of Los Angeles is Black. About forty-eight percent (48%) is Hispanics. Mexicans are the largest subgroup of Hispanics with thirty-seven (37%) of the city.