Editor’s Memo: The New LA
CITYWATCH TODAY—It’s hard to appreciate the past … when you don’t have one. That’s the danger of entrusting Los Angeles’ future to folks so young they have no experience to call on as they work to imagine and create LA’s tomorrowland. It’s not about living in the past it’s about respecting the past. There’s a benefit in having been there before. Knowing what worked and what did not. In honing a future through a three dimensional imagination. CityWatch columnist David Bell looks through such a lens and imagines the new LA … in Today’s CityWatch. Let us know what you think.
On another future front, Jerry Nickelsburg looks at fixing LA’s housing crisis. Cheaper homes, he writes, are not the answer. “Prices,” he says, “are not just a supply phenomenon but are rather an interaction between … what is available for sale and … what people want.” He offer’s an interesting perspective on a way out of the Los Angeles affordable housing predicament. In Today’s CityWatch.
Has the Brown Act outlived the problem it was created to solve? Are Latinos afraid, in Trump’s America, to report a rape? Is Jeff Sessions wrong about pot? Is the city squandering its ‘rainy day funds’? And more … in Today’s CityWatch. Take a look. Let us know what you think.
CITYWATCH TODAY—It’s hard to appreciate the past … when you don’t have one. That’s the danger of entrusting Los Angeles’ future to folks so young they have no experience to call on as they work to imagine and create LA’s tomorrowland. It’s not about living in the past it’s about respecting the past. There’s a benefit in having been there before. Knowing what worked and what did not. In honing a future through a three dimensional imagination. CityWatch columnist David Bell looks through such a lens and imagines the new LA … in Today’s CityWatch. Let us know what you think.
On another future front, Jerry Nickelsburg looks at fixing LA’s housing crisis. Cheaper homes, he writes, are not the answer. “Prices,” he says, “are not just a supply phenomenon but are rather an interaction between … what is available for sale and … what people want.” He offer’s an interesting perspective on a way out of the Los Angeles affordable housing predicament. In Today’s CityWatch.
Has the Brown Act outlived the problem it was created to solve? Are Latinos afraid, in Trump’s America, to report a rape? Is Jeff Sessions wrong about pot? Is the city squandering its ‘rainy day funds’? And more … in Today’s CityWatch. Take a look. Let us know what you think.
Ken Draper-Editor, CityWatch
