Category Archives: Viewpoint

Viewpoint: Hey, LA Times Editorial Board: Latest Column on Venice Attacks–Too Soon and Out of Touch

(Editor’s note: This article appeared on April 24 in the Westside Current and is reprinted with permission.) By: JAMIE PAIGE, Editor Westside Current On April 15, an emotional Councilwoman Traci Park delivered a speech at a press conference following the … Continue reading

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Viewpoint–Ballot Titles Play on Emotions: “Restricts Rights of Transgender Youth”

Many may remember voting for the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.” One didn’t  need to read beyond the title to know that everyone wants “safe neighborhoods and schools.” The prop. passed 59.61 to 40.39 percent. Not many asked how Proposition … Continue reading

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VIEWPOINT: CTN Does Not Back Down on Statement about HAMAS

As a musing on April 5, CTN wrote that the U.S. Government had a short memory. “President Biden has come out harshly against Israel after a missile strike on April 1 killed seven aid workers in Gaza. The Israeli government … Continue reading

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Viewpoint: Housing Doesn’t Cure Homelessness: Mental Health Help Might

The drain in your house is plugged and backing up water. You call a plumber, who comes and says it is a clog. Probably your fault, maybe you put onion skins down the garbage disposal. The plumber runs the rooter … Continue reading

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VIEWPOINT: No on Prop.1

  What if there were a proposition on the March ballot: Beautiful Sunsets and Foster Care for Kittens? Who is not for beautiful sunsets in California? Who would be against foster care for kittens? But like many California Proposition ballot … Continue reading

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VIEWPOINT- Fix the Roads – Gas Taxes??

USA Facts, a nonprofit civic initiative that looks at government data looked at roads in the U.S. The states with the worst roads were Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawaii, New Mexico and rounding out the top five was California. The … Continue reading

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Viewpoint: Hamas Supporters Deface the Los Angeles National Cemetery

Hamas supporters defaced the Los Angeles National Cemetery in West Los Angeles on January 6. The Key News Network reported a large crowd of individuals spray-painted walls outside the cemetery. The National Cemetery opened in May 1889 and contains about … Continue reading

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Viewpoint—Calling People Racist Is a Way to Skirt Blame

This editor wrote a September 2019 story (“Beglari House at 909 Greentree Is Razed”) about mistakes in City Planning that resulted in almost 20 years of legal problems. The homes at 909 and 921 Greentree Road were razed in August … Continue reading

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Viewpoint: Why Didn’t Someone Do Something? Israel Today

“Not every German who bought a copy of Mein Kampf necessarily read it … But it might be argued that had more non-Nazi Germans read it before 1933 and had the foreign statesmen of the world perused it carefully while there was … Continue reading

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VIEWPOINT: Placing American Flags on the Green

Pepperdine annually places an American flag for the almost 3,000 people who were killed on the 911. The view is breathtaking, but then I wondered why Pacific Palisades couldn’t have its own memorial. Auxiliary President in 2021, I went to … Continue reading

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