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Bargain Basement for DTLA High Rise? | Gehry’s Roman Road Should Lead to LA River Park | Kim’s Ambition | City Hall Hate Speech | SCNG’s Tardy Solidarity | About HK

Informed sources tell me that Downtown LA could soon get some help for its gap-toothed skyline, with talks about a bargain-basement deal for the …

About That Asian Crime Ring in Santa Ana: An Incomplete, Imperfect—and Honest—First Draft of History

Here’s a fact that appears to be lost in SoCal these days: You can condemn “Anti-Asian Hate” and also oppose Asian-American criminals. You can …

OC Signals Trump is Fading | Berggruen Fellow’s Ambitious Brief | Dr. Kim Leans Into Inclusion | IMC Doubles Up for Disaster Relief | Doti’s Dart | Soon-Shiong’s $7B Slide

There’s a lot of back and forth about whether the Republican Party is in thrall to Donald Trump, but recent signals from Orange County …

LA City Hall Silent on Paloma Street ‘Optics’ as 1,000 Homeless Drop Dead | Legacy Media Blackout on Amgen Cancer Pill | Gross in OC-FT Rotation

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is taking on the muddled mess of accounting that offers the latest indicators of public corruption in homelessness …

Bren’s Monopoly Board | Mussallem, Mazzo Meet Santana | Sonenshein’s Story | Soon-Shiong Shuffle Set Up on Printing Plant | Buchan Latest OC-FT Link | Kudos to Cuniff

Hold off a week or two if you’ve picked up word on the streets around Newport Center that Irvine Company boss Donald Bren plans …

Hats Off! | Di Bella, Musco on Mission | Memo to Greater LA: Lose the Loopy Language | LA CAN’s Significant Show & Tell | About SullivanSays YouTube Edition

A trio of SoCal vignettes, offered with a tip of the cap to the ones who insist on engaging our community’s biggest challenges. *  …

Garcetti’s Machiavellian Nonprofit | AEG Vet to LA Magazine, Orange Coast | Doti’s Dilemma | Zocalo’s Bren Link | DTSA’s Diversity

Here is the headline from a story about LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s so-called nonprofit organization in the May 13 print edition of the LA …

Garcetti’s Scramble | National Media’s Miss | LA Times’ Lipstick | City of Hope’s Bertell | F&M’s PPP Perspective | Metchek’s Suggestion | Andy’s Apples

My scoop last week on LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s bid to get a ticket out of SoCal with some second-tier job in the Biden …

Sources Say Garcetti to Quit | ‘Horrible’ Good Enough on Paloma Street | South Coast Metro’s Luckey Streak | Dulce’s Definition | Various Views on Armenian Genocide

Reliable sources say Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will announce his resignation this week as part of plans to take a second-tier job in …

Carter’s Tourniquet | County Concedes Conflict of Interest | LA Plaza Doubles the Fun | Just So in OC | Beanie Babies to Bocce | Has LA Times Gone Algorithmic?

Critics from various quarters are bashing U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order for the City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles …