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While watching a video of last week’s School Board meeting, online, something happened that set me back. At the one-hour, seven-minute mark, David Mielke, the Teachers Union president, was there to address the Board about School District salaries. While he was handing out an L.A. County salary survey and before he could get to the rostrum, Kathy Paspalis set the … Read More

Not so fast, boys. You never would know it by the way the City Council is breaking the speed limit roaring down the freeway. City Manager John Nachbar, whose back may be parallel with a wall when the legal Marijuana Era begins in a few weeks, estimates it will be close to a year before the first cannabis dispensaries open … Read More

Reading the iced tea leaves at last week’s City Council meeting to decide whether cannabis retail stores are appropriate for Culver City, Jim Clarke jumped the fence and changed sides. Opposed, Mr. Clarke voted with the backers for the sake of unity – not because he changed his mind. The question was put to him: Is approving marijuana retail stores … Read More

Gazing across Los Angeles, there may not be anything exceptional about awakening every morning this week with a drenched forehead. Perspiration reigns. And rains. Nervous time has arrived. The first Indigenous People’s Day is approaching faster than a leftist can convince a National Football League potted plant to perform on cue for the nice people. Further, the American League’s best … Read More

Second of two parts   Re “Celebrating Shira and Rosh Hashana 1200 Miles Away” Arriving in Seattle for Rosh Hashana two weeks ago mere hours before the holiday, I only had time to cursively greet the family of five I would be living with. While my fiancé Shira was showing me around her old Seward Park neighborhood, we stopped at … Read More

Most attention given putative new laws passed in the waning moments of this year’s legislative session in Sacramento has gone to items like a “sanctuary state” compromise. This would make California safer for non-criminal undocumented immigrants and measures to move the state’s next presidential primary up into early March. But the one bill with the most potential to improve this … Read More

In his nearby essay on a a different subject, my colleague Tom Elias (“No Place May Be Left for Donors to Hide”) employs a throwaway phrase en route to his destination. But the dynamite phrase – “non-criminal undocumented immigrants” — sets the table beautifully. People who break into our country – whether from a Muslim country or Mexico – are … Read More

Leftists are as predictable as the calendar, just not as useful. Like robotic brats, leftists screamed, on schedule, after Las Vegas. Then they whispered, “No, we don’t know how to fix this.” No one was supposed to be listening. Wish granted. Leftists are like a stopped clock – right for 2 minutes out of every 24 hours. In the tradition … Read More

Here is a spreadsheet that shows the count of homeless students enrolled in unified school districts throughout L.A. County. LA Co USD Homeless Count 2016-17 Enrollment was measured by counting the number of students enrolled in school on a particular day in October. The data shown was collected by the California Dept. of Education from the individual districts through the … Read More

Sorehead “journalist” Chatty Cathy Decker is working diligently to further damage the smeared reputation of print media before the Los Angeles Times forces her into a can’t-wait retirement. Whether age or other reasons are to blame, she never has recovered – or even tried – from President Trump’s victory 11 months ago. A wildly emotional lady giddily drunk over her … Read More