LOS ANGELES

RantZ and RaveZ - I would like to begin in Memory of the two El Monte Police Officers who were killed in the line of duty responding to a radio call last week.  

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Progressives went into meltdown mode in the wake of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s (above right) recall in San Francisco two weeks ago. 

DEEGAN ON LA—-A complete unknown, with no previous political experience and very little money, did almost as well as the politically established Kevin De Leon (CD14) in the mayoral race primary results.

PLANNING WATCH - Calls for more cops and mass incarceration are sure fire ways for candidates to obtain favorable press coverage and generous donations from wealthy donors. 

ACCORDING TO LIZ - It was 4:46 in the morning when the first shock shook many of the residents of Eagle Rock awake.

HOUSING WATCH - “More than 4,000 units of affordable housing and counting!” 

DEEGAN ON LA - A “practical progressive” can suddenly tilt the CD13 election runoff and should be feared by incumbent Mitch O’Farrell (CD13) more than he may be wary of his titular opponent Hugo Soto-Martinez. 

RantZ and RaveZ - The L.A. voters have set the tone for the November General Election.

PLANNING WATCH - The entry of highly successful shopping mall developer Rick Caruso into LA’s mayoral race, included spending over $30 million of his own money on campaign advertising, has generated detailed scrutiny of Mr. Caruso’s Grove Shopping Mall (photo above). 

DEEGAN ON LA—The sounds of kids having fun in school yards will be out of earshot of the homeless if the City Council and the LAUSD get a proposed 500-foot exclusionary zone prohibiting the homeless from settling near schools and day care centers.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans’ interim report was issued on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. It is worse than expected!

ACCORDING TO LIZ - At a time when the country is still reeling from a wave of mass shootings over the weekend, this article is about death on the streets of L.A. 

PLANNING WATCH - To answer this question, let’s look at some rare good news. 

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Just because someone declares that they are running for mayor does not mean that they are in fact running.

EDUCATION POLITICS - Every ten years, the board districts of the LAUSD are redrawn based on census data.

REDQUEENINLA - One candidate for LA Unified’s District 2 board seat (LAUSD2) is fond of asserting she is not “for charter schools” (CS).

THE DOCTOR IS IN - COVID-19 may linger as a threat, but America's best played a major role in bringing that threat to bear.

DEEGAN ON LA—Perps walking free is the wedge issue that may give undecided voters in CD-5 a reason to vote for Sam Yebri in the June 7 Primary Election.

LA ELECTION WATCH - If these were normal times, the regular exercise at the ballot box is simply choosing the lesser of two evils.

LA TRANSPO - As a Los Angeles transit rider since 1993, the addition of a major construction project for the Sepulveda Pass by Metro is greatly supported.

PLANNING WATCH - A major reason for LA’s population decline is the rising cost of housing  and the homelessness resulting from over-priced housing.