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Venice Beach: Keep the Cool, Lose the Filth and the Blight!

WESTSIDE - Let's be honest, Venice Beach is not failing because it lacks interest or visitors. It is failing because the public realm has not been maintained at the level appropriate for one of Los ...
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CD3 Doesn’t Need Another Promise It Needs a Councilmember Who Can Deliver

THE BOTTOM LINE - Los Angeles voters have heard the promises before: safer streets, cleaner neighborhoods, more housing, fewer encampments, better services, and greater accountability. But the ...
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Trump's Tit For Tat. A Toilet Bowl Palooza

ACCORDING TO LIZ - Clap-clap! As part of the president’s non-military offensive against its northern neighbor this summer, he threatened a 25% to 50% tariff on “toilet paper or face tissue stock.” ...
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IN MY OPINION - Why I Believe the AJC and ADL Took the Wrong Path on DEI

Written by Richard Lee Abrams. With organizations like Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the American Jewish Committee (AJC), we Jews need no enemies. (In the early 1970's, I was AJC associate area ...
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Olympics: LA28’s Drip‑Drip‑Drip Tactics Leave Los Angeles Holding the Bag

NICK'S VIEW - Wonderland Los Angeles, a global symbol of dreams, myths, and possibilities, will take center stage at the 2028 Olympic Games. Of course, the Games will be staged by LA28, the organizing ...
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When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of Time

MY THOUGHTS - Gavin Newsom came to the final days of his final regular legislative session with one more major problem he wanted California lawmakers to solve. They didn't. The collapse of Senate Bill ...
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Red-Light Fatalities Mount While City Hall Still Contemplates Its Navel

NICK’S VIEW - Reliable data from Los Angeles Police Department reports show that over the past decade traffic enforcement has fallen by more than eighty percent. Regrettably, as enforcement declines ...
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From Democrat to Independent: One Voter’s Break With LA’s Left

FRED TALK - There are 4 Democratic Socialists of America on the Los Angeles City Council--Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Ysabel Jurado and of course, their candidate for Mayor---"Nightmare" ...
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I Wasn’t There on 9/11. After October 7, I Understand Its Warning

A STUDENT'S VIEW - This Rosh Hashanah, a new generation of American Jews must decide whether trauma will make us hide or teach us how to stand taller. I do not remember September 11, 2001. Like many ...
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Homelessness: Why it Will Never Be Reformed from Within

iAUDIT! - If you have been following homelessness news for the past few months, you may wonder how the current system can possibly continue to operate. At least two news stories have described how ...
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Why Are Major Skid Row Projects Invisible?

SKID ROW - A few weeks ago, a portion of my Title VI Civil Rights complaint against the City of Los Angeles was accepted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Complaint No. 21-26-R9). My ...
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How to Get Rid of BOTH Bass and Raman With Olympic Speed: Un-Elect One, Re-call the Other

ALPERN AT LARGE - As much as I’ve recently come out with a few CityWatch pieces suggesting Mayor Karen Bass might be the lesser of two evils between both her failed mayoral first-term and an ...