Guest Commentary
Navigating Economic Downturns: Financial Strategies for Any Pending Recession
Despite global inflation, we are fortunate not to be living through the recession many economists said was pending. Nevertheless, individuals across the globe are grappling with the uncertainty of their financial futures. Any time economic indicators point toward a downturn, the importance of fortifying one's finances against the unpredictable forces of market fluctuations becomes paramount.
L.A.’s Anti-Camping Ordinance — A Predictable Failure
When the Los Angeles City Council voted to vastly expand criminalization of homelessness in 2021, its champions promised it would clear encampments from neighborhoods and force unwilling homeless people inside.
This Black History Month, It’s Time to Take the Next Step Towards Justice in Santa Monica
Before it became a liberal and progressive beacon under the leadership of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights and the Santa Monica Democratic Club, the City of Santa Monica officially promoted terrible policies of exclusion. Decades-long efforts by the Committee for Racial Justice (“CRJ”), historian Nina Fresco, and other community organizations and activists have brought to light the City’s use of eminent domain to target Black and Latino families and business owners in the Belmar Triangle and the Broadway and Pico Neighborhoods. As a community, we have since been on a path of learning, healing, and restitution with the ultimate goal of justice.
Culver City Releases Plan to Reimagine Public Safety; Will the City Council Bury It?
It has been ten years since the vigilante murder of Travon Martin inspired the Black Lives Matter Movement and three and a half years since the police murders of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and numerous others brought hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds into the streets to demand change.
Navigating Economic Downturns: Financial Strategies for Any Pending Recession
Despite global inflation, we are fortunate not to be living through the recession many economists said was pending. Nevertheless, individuals across the globe are grappling with the uncertainty of their financial futures. Any time economic indicators point toward a downturn, the importance of fortifying one's finances against the unpredictable forces of market fluctuations becomes paramount.
L.A.’s Anti-Camping Ordinance — A Predictable Failure
When the Los Angeles City Council voted to vastly expand criminalization of homelessness in 2021, its champions promised it would clear encampments from neighborhoods and force unwilling homeless people inside.
This Black History Month, It’s Time to Take the Next Step Towards Justice in Santa Monica
Before it became a liberal and progressive beacon under the leadership of Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights and the Santa Monica Democratic Club, the City of Santa Monica officially promoted terrible policies of exclusion. Decades-long efforts by the Committee for Racial Justice (“CRJ”), historian Nina Fresco, and other community organizations and activists have brought to light the City’s use of eminent domain to target Black and Latino families and business owners in the Belmar Triangle and the Broadway and Pico Neighborhoods. As a community, we have since been on a path of learning, healing, and restitution with the ultimate goal of justice.
Culver City Releases Plan to Reimagine Public Safety; Will the City Council Bury It?
It has been ten years since the vigilante murder of Travon Martin inspired the Black Lives Matter Movement and three and a half years since the police murders of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, and numerous others brought hundreds of thousands of Americans of all backgrounds into the streets to demand change.
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