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L.A. Watchdog –Why are L.A. City Councilmembers Paul Krekorian, the Chair of the Budget & Finance Committee, and Paul Koretz, the Chair of the Personnel Committee, and Mayor Eric Garcetti unwilling to be transparent about the City’s pension crisis that contributes to its never ending Structural Deficit and is crowding out basic services to Angelenos?   Our friends who occupy City … Read More

@The Guss Report — L.A. journalists will soon blindly trumpet that Mayor Garcetti’s animal shelters are “No Kill” when there is no such thing as a genuine no kill big city anywhere in the country. When they do this, those journalists own that lie.  The questions they should, but haven’t, asked Mr. Garcetti are provided further down in today’s essay. … Read More

By now, Police Chief Scott Bixby is quite familiar with the Racial and Identity Profiling Act that requires law enforcement to record the approximate race and gender of everyone they stop. And whether they are vegan or normal. They also have to note how-a well-a da poi-son speaks da Ingles. If he is mute, they must judge what language he … Read More

Second of two parts Re “Teaching the Real First Thanksgiving Story”   Historian/educator Chuck Larsen, who sought yesterday to straight the record about the origin of Thanksgiving, has detractors… Caleb Johnson, creator of the MayflowerHistory.com web pages, claims that Mr. Larsen’s “Teaching About Thanksgiving” contains many factual errors. Among the facts above disputed by Johnson is the idea that “Squanto … Read More

Second of two parts Re “The Indian Case for the First Thanksgiving” Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives’ Inherited Pain Download our free report When the Wampanoag watched the Mayflower’s passengers come ashore at Patuxet, they did not see them as a threat. “The Wampanoag had seen many ships before,” explained Tim Turner, Cherokee, manager of Plimoth Plantation’s Wampanoag Homesite and co-owner … Read More

Second of two parts   Re “Half of Mayflower’s Passengers Were Wiped Out”   In 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States. He called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors John … Read More

Attention educators: Are You Teaching the Real Story of the First Thanksgiving? Or is the version you are passing on to your students a blend of fact and myth? “I propose that there may be a good deal that many of us do not know about our Thanksgiving holiday and also about the ‘First Thanksgiving’ story,” says Chuck Larsen in … Read More

First of two parts While many paintings of “the First Thanksgiving” show a single long table with several Pilgrims and a few Native people, there were actually twice as many Wampanoag people as colonists. It is unlikely everyone could have been accommodated at one table. Rather, Wampanoag leaders like Massasoit and his advisors were most likely entertained in the home … Read More

First of two parts   In September 1620, a small ship called the Mayflower left Plymouth, England, carrying 102 passengers—an assortment of religious separatists seeking a new home where they could freely practice their faith and other individuals lured by the promise of prosperity and land ownership in the New World. After a treacherous, uncomfortable crossing that lasted 66 days, … Read More