VENICE- I was reading the latest letter from the Coalition for Safe Coastal Development to Homeless and Poverty Committee, which confesses to …

Opinion: Ahead of the primary election, here’s a Venetian perspective.

LA City Council is proposing to raise the budget for homeless response team CIRCLE, from 3 to 8 million dollars. LAMayor.org describes CIRCLE …

There was a time when Los Angeles' paper of record could be relied on to provide political endorsements that reflected the interests and conce…

VENICE- We at the Coalition for Safe Coastal Development, the folks who have brought a compelling law suit against the city and the project’s …

LOS ANGELES -On Monday, April 26th, Los Angeles Homeless Authority Executive Director Heidi Marston delivered her resignation in the form of a…

VENICE -The city’s new pet project, CIRCLE, will operate “Decompression Centers” where homeless people involved in 911 incidents (rather than …

VENICE- 15 Months ago, my tenure at this publication began with two pieces published in tandem:  a look back on the Venice Bridge Home's impac…

Despite my 11th hour plea to The City Council last week to withhold its support of The Venice Median Project by voting to ABSTAIN, I was not i…

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Last year he made up a federal act of terror to smear his own constituents and political opponents — Now calls for patience in the face of an …

The latest chapter in LA City Council’s Homeless Encampment conflict played itself out this week in a controversy that appears to have started…

On Wednesday the Los Angeles City Council voted 13-2 to pass a new safe open places ordinance, which will empower authorities to enforce no ca…

WESTSIDE -People throughout Los Angeles are both outraged and confused by the dangerous and dirty conditions of our sidewalks and streets, our…

VENICE- As City workers haul away tons of trash from the Ocean Front Walk, exposing the dead carcass of what was once a beautiful park, we all…

VENICE- According to the last official homeless count, the City of Los Angeles has over 60 percent of Los Angeles County's unhoused population…

Earns more than every US Governor, US House & Senate Member, more than council members in New York City, Chicago and Dallas.

 If there’s one thing about Angelenos, we’re dog people. We love our mutts like we love our Dodgers and our Lakers (and, erm, Clippers?). They…