VOICES

RENT OUT-OF-CONTROL - While more and more Americans struggle to pay wildly inflated rents, Big Real Estate executives are splurging on superyachts, car collections, and even a private audience with superstar rapper Drake. 

OP/ED - As we approach election day, we see races being more hotly contested.

EDUCATION IN AMERICA - We are 68 years after the U.S. Supreme Court held in the case Brown vs. Board of Education that, "Separate but equal...was inherently unequal" ...

THE VIEW FROM HERE - We know Rick Caruso is a habitual liar who bears false witness, uses religious bigotry and defames innocent people.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Every now and then Angelenos need to lift their heads above the grime that is more in our City Hall than in our air these days, and watch the sun rise or a monarch butterfly sip nectar from a milkweed flower. 

Deegan On LA—Candidate Hydee Feldstein Soto’s take on the City Attorney job is often very different than her opponent’s views. She is less attention-seeking and more grounded.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Where was US Representative Karen Bass and other Black elected officials and activists in 2012 during the disastrous redistricting of Los Angeles’ council districts? 

GUEST COMMENTARY - Although he was not in the room during Nury Martinez’s vile rants recorded and leaked to the public last week, the specter of Mark Ridley-Thomas (MR-T) loomed large over a conversation about power, politics and representation.

MIRISCH’S MUSINGS - Erwin Chemerinsky is without question one of our country’s top legal scholars. I have admired him for over 40 years.

GREG STOLTZ, ESQ INTERVIEW - When I first broke the news of the FBI tampering of evidence to slap on “child pornography” charges on NXIVM “cult” leader Keith Raniere, no one was reporting on this.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - The original “The Need For Perspicuity” appeared in a 1968 newsletter of Adelante, Inc, Mexican American Organization for Progress, in Claremont, California, addressing the need for everyone to step back and take more thoughtful looks at government and social issues.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Those who've profiteered off our homelessness crisis (and it IS a crisis) and the related affordable housing crisis have created a NEW crisis: the Homelessness Industry Crisis.

POLITICAL DIVIDE - The remarks this past August by President Biden describing former President Trump and the “extreme MAGA philosophy” as “semi-fascism” provoked predictable outrage from Republican propagandists and leaders.

POLITICS WATCH - Republican members of Congress who denounced or voted against President Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that passed in late 2021 are now begging out gay Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for some of the bill’s funding.

THE DOCTOR IS IN - Let me start by stating that I'm a dermatologist--I am all too aware of the skin-deep differences between the different races that comprise humanity.

GUEST COMMENTARY - Like many of you, I was absolutely disgusted at the litany of racist remarks that were both spoken and tolerated by members of the Los Angeles City Council.

THE VIEW FROM HERE - Decades ago, Nancy Pelosi thought that introducing racism into politics was a crackerjack idea.

RESPONSE TO JACK HUMPHREVILLE - Jack Humphreville is a conservative commentator well-known for his opposition to even progressive taxes.

OPEN LETTER - We are writing to you to express our deep dismay and anger over the reports of a recorded conversation between Council President Nury Martinez, Councilmember Kevin de León, Councilmember Gil Cedillo and LA Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera.

SUPER RICH - Spin a globe, then stop it with any finger. Some fantastically rich individual will most likely be living—or yachting—somewhere close to wherever your finger lands.

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Microsoft is not “micro” nor is it “soft.” It is a monopoly profiting off of, and unyielding in its disregard of the needs of the common people.