My Opinion
LAUSD Board’s LaMotte Delay Was Correct Call
The passing of Los Angeles Unified School Board Member Marguerite LaMotte 25 days ago, on Dec. 5, the same day as the passing of Nelson Mandela, has thrown the Los Angeles African American community into a tailspin not seen since Congressman Julian Dixon died suddenly in December of 2000.
Upgrading Your Musical Knowledge at Christmas Time
[Editor’s Note: An extraordinary professional cellist and music educator, Ms. Dewberry is a former weekly essayist for the newspaper.]
Feeding the Beast: City Hall’s Voracious Appetite for Your Money
LA Watchdog: The “Argument in
Favor” of increasing our sales tax to a job-crippling 9.5 percent once again demonstrates the self-serving nature of our city leaders, the campaign-funding union leadership, and their cronies who occupy City Hall.
Latest Greuel Audit Questioned by the James Campaign
[Editor’s Note: Mr. Corless is campaign manager for Los Angeles mayoral candidate Kevin James.]
Romney Could Not Ever Match Obama’s Dollar Giveaways
[Editor’s Note: The activist Hovsep Fidanian of Glendale forwards the essay below with the following comment: “Take a moment to digest this most succinct, thoughtful explanation of how last month’s election demonstrates our nation is changing. The essay, by the rabbi of Congregation B’nai Yeshurun, Teaneck, NJ, appeared in the Israel National News, directed to Jewish
readership. Seventy percent of American Jews voted as Democrats.”]
Violent Crime in Hollywood Worse Than South L.A. – No, Thanks,...
Today is a blue Christmas in crime-ridden Hollywood.
UPCC Will Host Broad Safety Forum in a Month
The recent tragic events in Connecticut have many Culver City parents wondering about the safety of their children on the school campuses.
A Holiday Card from the Hoults to Friends Everywhere
Thoughtful Polling, Aggressive Funding Should Reverse Measure J Loss?
[Editor’s Note: Denny Zane, Executive Director of Santa Monica-based Move LA and one of the community’s most vigorous mass transportation advocates, analyzes last month’s narrow failure of the controversial Measure J, a far in the future mass transportation tax.]
