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  • Civic Leaders Fund Their Own Interests in AD54’s Special Election

    11 May 2021

    There’s a political newcomer in AD54 (extending across eastern West-LA to western South-LA) who has burst on the scene with…

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  • Raising Pitchforks Against Our Own Best Interest

    14 May 2015

    The 405 interstate scissors down Los Angeles’ westside, demarcating an archipelago of geopolitically distinct communities that all share one singular,…

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  • Diffuse Thanks, Specially Directed

    26 Nov 2014

    Non-secularists lay no rightful claim to mediate ethical or moral behavior, and by the same token secularists ought to be…

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  • The Shame Of Inadequate Social Services

    10 Nov 2014

    As contributors to the zeitgeist of 21st century LA, my modern family spends endless, mind-numbing hours in a car shuttling…

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  • Neighborhood Living

    16 Oct 2014

    Who says a megalopolis like Los Angeles shouldn’t enjoy a Village Green with parade and watermelon-eating contest? Not that these…

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  • A Tale Of Two Restaurants

    26 Jun 2014

    Two restaurants operate within a block of downtown Mar Vista, illuminating old and new Los Angeles in high relief. Pepy’s…

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  • Our Own Effort Is The Common Thread In Democracy

    23 Jun 2014

    I think some of those who moan loudest about the dissolution of the social fabric are themselves most complicit in…

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  • Smooth, dark and functional – resurfacing one’s way to a more beautiful corridor

    02 Sep 2013

    Since towing a life’s possessions past that tall desert thermometer 19 years hence, my Palms/Mar Vista stomping grounds have been…

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  • Fun, Learning And Service: One Big Benefit Of Big Government

    25 Jul 2013

    Forget “BayWatch”, think KidWatch Extraordinaire. Who knew those quintessential singles, the famous First Responders of our surf-churned Pacific frontier, were…

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  • Venice High School: getting greased

    01 Jun 2013

    The following is abstracted from a longer explanation of this year’s political unrest at Venice High School.  It first appeared…

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