Pending formal approval by the School Board at Tuesday evening’s 7 o’clock meeting, the School District’s anxiously awaited Science Building will be placed in a new location. In June, just before his dismissal, Supt. Josh Arnold announced that the two-story struck would be placed between on the grounds where the Natatorium was being torn down. That would have put it … Read More

Second of two parts Re “Cops at Fault in Charlottesville, Says Camarella” Community activist Tom Camarella is still angered that police officers in the Charlottesville riot remained safely secluded until the action “really, really was heavy, and then they came out.” Why did they remain off the field? “Because they wanted the melee,” Mr. Camarella said. “They wanted the problem. … Read More

This is rich. The Times, the oldest surviving anti-Semitic publication in Los Angeles, calls out President Trump’s perceived slowness in labeling white supremacists as racists. This is the same newspaper that idly picked its teeth when President Obama, unintentionally facetious, branded an Islamic terror attack at Ft. Hood “workplace violence.”   This is the same newspaper that picked its teeth … Read More

First of two parts The most important and depressint lesson from the Charlottesville tragedy rests on a three-pronged prod, says community activist Tom Camarella. History is repeating. “Here in 1965 with the Watts Riots, here in 1991 with Rodney King and last weekend in Charlottesville, the police did the exact same thing,” he said. “They stood there. “And they knew … Read More

As a lifelong officer of the law, Police Chief Scott Bixby is as puzzled this morning as he was last Saturday night watching video of the Charlottesville brawl. How, he wonders, can millions of Americans blame police officers for what happened on an ugly night in Colonial Virginia when two heavily armed behemoths clashed? He is feeling boxed. “This is … Read More

You never could have discerned this elephant-sized truism from last weekend’s loaded coverage of the Charlottesville Conference of Street Scholars: Each one of the square-headed behemoths from the right and the left who squared off in gutless gutter warfare is an embarrassment to his family. If we assume all of the mentally wounded warriors on the supremacist right required eight … Read More

Liberals often can be identified by their imprecise language that feels better than consuming a jumbo box of chocolates. Or a box of jumbo chocolates. Take the Jewish liberal group Bend the Arc – please – as my late non-friend Rod Dangerfield used to plead. Bend’s definition of its mission  only is scary if the words are meant to be … Read More

Hews Media Group-Community News has received a surveillance video providing strong evidence that Central Basin Municipal Water Director Leticia Vasquez has not been residing in the house she claims to live at within her district. Instead, she resides at the home of her husband, attorney Ron Wilson, on Northland Drive in Los Angeles. We have confirmed with the Los Angeles … Read More

Second in a series   Re “Super Enthusiasm for the New School Year” “Everything is ready for our students to come back,” says a constantly energized Leslie Lockhart, interim superintendent of the School District. Before discussing this evening’s School Board Workshop targeting the replacement for the fast-vanishing Natatorium, Ms. Lockhart turned to the immediate schedule. Registration is under way this … Read More