Category Archives: Viewpoint

By HANK WRIGHT The NFL season ended. Election season starts now. Last Saturday was the deadline to file for Mayor, CD11 council, and LAUSD board. I gathered signatures for Councilmember Traci Park. I have worked two local campaigns (The first...

Dearest Palisadians, A year has passed. Long enough for the adrenaline to fade. Long enough for the shock to turn into something quieter. A low, constant hum in the background of daily life. And a new feeling. Uncertainty. An uncertainty...

L.A. Mayoral Candidate Austin Beutner announced today, February 5, that he would not be running for mayor and released the following statement: I have made the difficult decision not to run for Mayor of Los Angeles. My family has experienced...

By JIMMY DUNNE It was pretty late. Stopped by this small, kinda locals-only bar that was ‘bout to close up. Only a few folks still in there. I can’t remember the town I was in. Just somewhere out there. Great...

(Editor’s note: This opinion piece first appeared in the L.A. Daily News (“LA’s Governing Disaster: Legal Payouts, Nepotism and Incompetence” on November 25 and is reprinted with the author’s permission”) By SUSAN SHELLEY Los Angeles is a mess. It’s not...

This editor is joining residents in “crying uncle.”  For those too young to understand the phrase, it originated around the 1900’s among American school children as a way to surrender in a physical fight, meaning “give up” and was still...

                                                                      My husband cooked the turkey...

If one was going to be on television, one might buy a new outfit or at least make sure the dress/suit one is going to wear is clean and pressed. One would probably make sure they had a haircut/or hair...