John Q. Walsh

Is the badly-injured tow truck driver involved in last Wednesday’s pre-dawn Fifth & Broadway collision planning to sue the MTA? Will MTA settle quickly out of court with Youssef Adhami for a hefty sum to avoid a trial?

Dear Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein: Please let us Los Angeles Times readers know what KNBC viewers have known since Wednesday about the 7-Eleven store Downtown bus killing.

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and his fellow MTA Board members persist in refusing to join mourners in laying a funeral wreath at the 7-Eleven convenience store memorial site where esteemed longtime MTA bus operator Olivia Gamboa, 47, was killed at 5 a.m. yesterday when a tow truck driver allegedly ran a red light.

Grand Park New Year’s Eve Bash for 2014 must be cancelled right away to avoid a repeat of this year’s scary Downtown chaos...except on a much, ahem, “grander” future scale.

At the MTA, its No. 1 concern appears to be covering its own tail, fearing a huge wrongful death lawsuit by the survivors of the deceased operator/driver of the death trap bus.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it. Underground "sponsored content" invades the Los Angeles Times front page on June 1. Obey the Times’s hidden command: Buy a foreign electric auto. Times’ readers are blissfully unaware that they are currently being brainwashed into buying foreign automakers' Fiat, Honda and Nissan electric cars.

Starting July 1, the most powerful politician in this city of four million is named Garcetti. His first name, however, is Gil. Not Eric. Over the next four years, forever-vigilant watchdog hollywoodhighlands.org will be incessantly nipping at all four of the incumbent mayors’ heels.

Read here how the enemy talks among themselves when they believe we are unable to hear them prattling...The Hollywood Real Estate Mega-Speculators and their bought-and-paid-for local elected politicians openly concoct bald-faced lies for the general public to eat up, saying that the reason for subways and tall towers built next to their rail stops is to banish evil gridlock from Los Angeles.

This is an open invitation to media worldwide to interview Los Angeles Community College Distrct Board of Trustees winner Ms. Nancy Pearlman about her unique relationship with her infamous nephew Adam Pearlman Gadahn. Mr. Gadahn is tied to the co-plotting of...

So LAPD Chief Charlie Beck cleans house, reassigning three of his deputies. Our website (hollywoodhighlands.org) issues this media challenge: Take a midnight tour of Eric Garcetti’s “crime-free” Hollywood. Who is too chicken out there to take an unarmed tour of violent crime sites that occurred, according to Crime-Mapping LA, over the past month?