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Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

February 21, 2021 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Columnist The mysterious blindness that apparently affected California’s top legislative housing advocates all through 2020 seems to...

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The Big Price When Scofflaws Don’t Enforce the Law

January 14, 2021 Staff Report

By Tom Elias, City City-Westwood News Columnist The list of California law enforcement agencies refusing to enforce current stay-at-home, crowd-size and...

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Prop. 13 Still the Third Rail? Not Exactly

December 20, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Century City Westwood News Columnist Proposition 13 is still the third rail of California politics,” crowed Jon...

Featured, News, Oped, Westside Wellness

Column: Will Flailing at the Virus Do Much Good?

December 15, 2020 Video

By Tom Elias, Century City-Westwood News Columnist It is well established that wearing face masks confers a high degree of protection from...

Featured, News, Oped, Westside Wellness

Column: Defying the Hype: State’s Voters Smarter Than ‘Experts’ Think

November 17, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Century City Westwood News Columnist For more than two months, California airwaves were filled with political hype, in large...

Featured, News, Oped, Westside Wellness

Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers; What’s the Difference?

October 13, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Century City-Westwood News Columnist The headline back on June 12 was threatening: “A revolt against masks creates new risk,”...

Featured, News, Oped, Politics

Moved up Census: Time for Californians to Act

September 17, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Columnist California polls now show President Trump trails Democrat Joseph Biden in the upcoming presidential election by...

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Worst Housing Bills Fail; Solution via Market Forces Now Possible

September 4, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Columnist Evidence keeps mounting that California’s longtime housing shortage can be solved by market forces set loose...

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A Sure Loser Heads to the November Ballot

August 28, 2020 wpengine

By Tom Elias, Columnist Heedless of informed advice about conditions in California, labor unions behind the Split Roll ballot initiative...

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Has Coronavirus Killed the Mass Transit Boom?

August 21, 2020 Westside Today Staff

By Tom Elias, Century City-Westwood News Columnist For most of the last 30 years, California saw a mass transit boom stretching from...

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Westside Cafe Helping Save Monarch Butterflies

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April 13, 2021

This Westside cafe is doing its part to keep its namesake insect, the monarch butterfly, safe. Learn more in this...

A Westwood Village chapel may be replaced with housing. Learn more in this video made possible by Santa Monica College

Local Cantina Known for 30-oz Margaritas Won’t Reopen

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Category: Oped

Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

The Big Price When Scofflaws Don’t Enforce the Law

Prop. 13 Still the Third Rail? Not Exactly

Column: Will Flailing at the Virus Do Much Good?

Column: Defying the Hype: State’s Voters Smarter Than ‘Experts’ Think

Anti-Maskers, Anti-Vaxxers; What’s the Difference?

Moved up Census: Time for Californians to Act

Worst Housing Bills Fail; Solution via Market Forces Now Possible

A Sure Loser Heads to the November Ballot

Has Coronavirus Killed the Mass Transit Boom?

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