Bubonic California
And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may...
Los Angeles
How Does a California Family Survive?
It’s common enough to discuss the high cost-of-living in California. It’s become a serious topic, at last. But for Californians who are used to paying ridiculous prices for everything, it may be helpful to present a comparison in the form...
LA’s Purple Line Subway Expansion: Under a Public School, Through Methane Zone and Abandoned Oil Wells
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is expanding a line of the Los Angeles subway system directly beneath the historic Beverly Hills High School, through ground littered with more than 80 abandoned oil wells and saturated with methane gas and...
Big Blow to Mayor Garcetti in the defeat of Measure EE in Los Angeles
Following the contentious Los Angeles Unified School District strike in January, the controversial property tax hike proposed by the school district went down in a resounding defeat Tuesday. Measure EE garnered only about 45 percent of voter approval when it...
LA DA Jackie Lacey Suddenly Struggling
Does Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey have a re-election problem on her hands? The county’s first African-American and woman to hold the office was first elected in 2012 and ran unopposed in 2016. But ahead of her 2020 re-election...
LA Teachers Ready to Walk the Line
Teachers in Los Angeles will be walking a picket line on Monday for only the third time in the Los Angeles Teachers Union’s (UTLA) five-decade history. The battle lines drawn in this dispute appear to be about not only salaries...
Garcetti Goes Full-On Identity Pol on Sunday TV
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said yesterday that Democrats should appeal to Latino voters by putting more Latino candidates on the ballot. This call for hardcore identity politics might strike some as self-serving since Garcetti, both Jewish and Mexican-American, is...