Category: Columnists

Don’t stand idly by while seniors are evicted — you may be next By Louise Sevilla The author is a licensed clinical social worker and Venice resident. Recent news reports about more than 150 seniors ages 70 to 105 being evicted...

Police officers should get more training on how to deal with the mentally ill By Bettina Gantsweg The slight man shuffles along in front of a laundromat on Washington Boulevard, stops and sets down an orange drink in the middle...

Putting conflict above cooperation to attack mass transit only hurts the common good By Ed King King is transit director for Big Blue Bus. He is responding to the Oct. 20 story “They Beat the Bus,” about Venice residents who...

Measure M and Prop HHH are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to address traffic and homelessness By L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin Bonin represents Council District 11, which includes Westchester, Playa del Rey, Playa Vista, Del...

By Kenneth S. Alpern, M.D. The author is chair of The Transit Coalition, a grassroots public transportation advocacy group. He’s also led both the Planning and Transportation committees of the Mar Vista Community Council....

Ballot initiatives by Santa Monica’s Residocracy and L.A.’s Michael Weinstein would hurt everyone By Charles Rappleye Michael Weinstein is a loudmouth iconoclast who has made much money — and many enemies — as the leader of the...

The loudest complainer about the homeless in Venice opposes a city plan to finally  ‘do something’ about it? Give me a break! By Linda Lucks The author, a former president of the Venice Neighborhood Council, is writing in...

Local Sanders delegates get stuck paying lavish bills to support a populist agenda By John Seeley The Bernie Sanders campaign generated several firsts in modern presidential politics — embracing the word socialism, for one — but...