LOS ANGELES

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The candidacy of Rick Caruso raises a fundamental question. 

LA CORRUPTION - The Los Angeles Ethics Commission voted Wednesday to have the California Office of Administrative Hearings appoint an administrative law judge to serve as a hearing officer in the commission’s case against former Councilman Mitchell Englander.

CONNECTING CALIFORNIA - If the crisis in American democracy had a capital, it would be Los Angeles.

PLANNING WATCH - Over a half century ago, the 1964 Presidential race gave us the memorable campaign slogan “A Choice, not an Echo,” when Barry Goldwater lost against incumbent Lyndon Johnson. 

COMMENTARY - It’s been a week since last peek at the LAUSD board election spending.

RantZ and RaveZ - Congratulations to the Los Angeles Rams….

THE VIEW FROM HERE - And you thought Garcetti was bad. Well, yeah Eric Garcetti was bad.

TOXIC CLEANUP - Boeing recently donated one million dollars to a wildlife corridor overpass near Los Angeles.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - There are three major timepoints and "eras" to date in our struggle and confrontation with COVID-19--before the vaccine, after the vaccine, and our current pandemic-to-endemic era with this terrible virus. 

CALIFORNIA HOUSING - When Benita Guzman moved from the San Joaquin Valley to Southern California to be closer to family, she was confident that her husband, Alfonso, would find work as a carpenter.

TRANSIT WATCH - LA Metro has a mobility objective called Vision 2028, but it is lacking in the ability to integrate transportation systems in order to achieve its goals.

LAPD WATCH - Documents obtained by Knock LA reveal 46% of Hollywood Entertainment Detail arrestees are Black.

PLANNING WATCH -  Growth is an elusive term that boosters tout it as the ideal outcome of successful governance.  But what exactly is it? 

DEEGAN ON LA…The Radical Democratic Left may be left out of the crime conversation this Mayoral election season which is already shifting toward public safety as the signature issue for several prospective mayoral candidates.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - When we’re born, we dunt know nuthin’ from nuthin’ including proper grammar. 

RANDOM LENGTHS NEWS - Exposing the culture of secrecy in corporations. Putting sunshine on policing across California. Illuminating the toll the pandemic took on their neighbors.

LA POLITICS - It’s no secret that Council President Nury Martinez wants to be Acting Mayor of Los Angeles as the U.S. Senate is likely to confirm Eric Garcetti as President Biden’s Ambassador to India any day now. 

RantZ and RaveZ - The Time has come for Los Angeles County Voters to RECALL District Attorney George Gascón from office. 

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - Minnie Mouse will don a designer pantsuit for Disneyland Paris’ 30th anniversary celebration and conservatives are frothing over “woke politics” and polka dots.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Back before transportation fell into the same chasm as all other politically-charged topics, there was a group of us who were transportation advocates who recognized the destruction of our overall mobility, and we focused on alternative forms of transportation: rail, bus, and all things Transit.

MY THOUGHTS - Yes, I took a long hiatus from writing articles in City Watch.  In answer to those of you who questioned my absence, there were multiple reasons.