LOS ANGELES

PLANNING WATCH - One of the most famous mid-20^th century public intellectuals, sociologist Wright Mills, coined the term, Crackpot Realism. 

ENVIRONMENT - Francisco Diaz remembers when the water piped to his home in the Central Valley community of Monterey Park Tract made everything smell rotten, including himself.

CAL MATTERS - Stakeholders across California participated in a moderated discussion about the state’s digital divide and its effect on small business.

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA - As California starts closing prisons, what might open in their place?

LABOR VIEW - Without the power of the union to stand up for workers, very little progress can be made in pay equality, diversity inclusion, workplace conditions, and so on. 

THE DOCTOR IS IN - It's undeniable that the Gabby Petito murder story describes a horrible tragedy and loss for the victim and her miserable, heart-broken family.

CALIFORNIA MATTERS - Congress is tied up in knots over the scope and financing of President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion basket of enhanced social, educational and medical benefits.

RECALL PERSPECTIVE - What started as a lark, then became an impossible dream—a conservative resurgence, starting in California—ended, like many past efforts, in electoral defeat.

A VIEW FROM HERE - The Right Wing and the Left Wing Share Two Ideas. 

HOUSING AFFORDABILITY-In the final scene of the obscure 2004 sci fi action-adventure film “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,” the heroes have tracked down the mastermind behind the unstoppable massive machines that are tearing up cities to steal power-generating infrastructure in the service of launching an improved human race.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Just because the Republicans, Independents (and a few Democrats) chose not to recall Gavin Newsom doesn't mean that our state's problems are going away.

ECONOMIC HEALTH - An estimated 9 million Americans got the rug pulled out from under them over Labor Day weekend as enhanced pandemic federal unemployment benefits expired, leaving millions of families in the lurch during a record-breaking season for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

SOUTH OF THE 10 - The Inglewood City Council is attempting to pull a fast one on Inglewood residents. 

THE BCK FILE-A GOP game plan that costs California taxpayers at least $276 million ended in a blowout for incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom.

RECALL PERSPECTIVE - Well, that was one for the history books. In the space of two decades, California voters recalled one Democratic governor and refused to recall another.

A VIEW FROM HERE - The recall was an overwhelming rejection of the person of Larry Elder.  Elder is an annoying blowhard who had never run anything other than his mouth. 

PLANNING WATCH-A UCLA Luskin Center study on homelessness in Los Angeles traces this unresolved social problem back to the 1930s, when homeless encampments were called Hoovervilles.

COMMENTARY-According to a report by the Center for International Environmental Law, by 2050 worldwide plastic production fueled by the fracking boom in the U.S. will have a greenhouse gas impact on the planet equivalent to 615 500-megawatt coal-fired power plants operating at full capacity. 

Donald Trump will likely go down in U.S. history as one of the worst, if not most corrupt, presidents. 

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A VIEW FROM HERE - Let’s allow criminals give themselves absolute immunity for their criminal acts.