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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

INVESTIGATIVE PERSPECTIVE - Drive through the beautiful community of Sherwood Forest in Northridge, and it is easy to understand what generations of zoning and planning laws were intended to protect.

PUBLIC SAFETY — Nearly 20-year department veteran becomes the first Latino to lead the Cathedral City Police Department. Cathedral City has a new police chief — but not a newcomer. Rick Sanchez, a ...

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 ...

GELFAND’S WORLD - It’s two months and a day until the November elections. There are expectations that the Republicans will lose legislative control at least in the House of Representatives. This will ...

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 ...