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When I saw the below story and read the distance between the house and the bluff at Little Dume Beach - I knew only two properties on Point ...

Below is my article in CITYWATCH: The Killers of Killer King! Coming Soon To Your Neighborhood! By Brady Westwater After decades of ‘refo...

Did DWP Cave in? GM Deaton Provides Some Answers Accused of caving in to their union and violating the Brown Act, DWP’s GM Ron Deaton and Pu...

At one time this morning the LA Times website between stories and headlines had three - count them - three different numbers of homes burned...

Seeing that a LA Times Forum was going to be on Tribune owned KTLA, I clicked on the link to see what the subject matter of the Forum was go...

Remaking downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood make over in full swing By PAT SAPERSTEIN "In cultural tourism, L.A. ranks at the bottom,...

Below is my article in today's CITYWATCH: The Killers of Killer King! Coming Soon To Your Neighborhood! By Brady Westwater After deca...

LAObserved just linked to Witness LA.... http://witnessla.com/city-government/2007/alan-mittelstaedt/a-toast-to-dave/ .... with the story th...

Two things. First, it'll take way too long for the State to shut down King (and someone else will do it long before then), but it helps...

While many of the records Jim Shoulders set as the world's greatest cowboy rodeo has ever seen have been broken, it took a lot more than...

Three times I have tried to move a vintage book store downtown after they had problems paying the rent elsewhere in the city. But in each c...

In an article on the change of management at the Chelsea Hotel, the New York Times makes the unimaginable blunder of stating that the 12 - y...

Solving the biggest aquatic disappearance mystery since... Reggie the Alligator's hibernation - Fishbowl LA and all the other the other ...

When FISHBOWLLA went off line today, I just assumed it had something to do with Nikki Finke and her... unusually... personal attack on our l...

The breaking story Wednesday of how the DWP ‘ripped off public agencies’ by $222-million was initially so confusing the LA Times had to post...

Hit the above link - and find out how you can publish your appreciation of your father on Gather's site. Below is my contribution which...

Everyone in city government talks about creating well paying jobs in Los Angles, but little constructive action is taken that accomplishes a...

Well... not literally - but when I went to KNBC's Burbank studios to shoot my interview Friday for the 2 PM LA Cowboy Show, the lobby wa...

Can The LA Times Be Saved? That was the question posed at Tuesday night’s ZOCALO panel discussion – and the answer seemed to be – mostly, ye...

But, my friends say, I still don't look a day over... two. Must be all that clean cowboy living....

After his recent... self-defenestration... from the LA Times Editorial page, Andres Martinez is taking a job with preferred home away home f...

Hit the above link to get the complete story - and two photos of LA Cowboy surveying his domain/range: Brady Westwater, the LA Cowboy The fi...

More details on the Chandler/Tribune stock deal: Chandler family directors resign from Tribune board By James P. Miller and Phil Rosenthal T...

Nikki Finke scoops everyone with the news the Chandler Trust has just sold its stock before the final buyout - taking three dollars a share ...

Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Congress Senate AMENDED Agenda #4b added; #12 modified Saturday June 2nd, 2007 (10:00 a.m.) DIFFERENT LO...

During my four years at UCLA, I almost never attended my undergrad classes. I instead bought the texts and the class notes and showed up on...

If so, I can predict next year's winner of the Nobel Peace Prize... Birth-Control Pill Halts Women's Periods Tuesday May 22, 5:33 pm...

When I first read that literary agent/blogger Miss Snark was shutting down her blog -I didn't post the news, hoping that she might chang...

Today's article on the immigration march/rally at MacArthur Park had three interesting, if contradictory, statements: Waving American fl...

View from Here - Schooling the School Board Mayor’s picks kick butt. What does it have to do with NCs? Tuesday, the Mayor's candid...

Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Congress Senate Agenda Saturday May 19th, 2007 (12:30 p.m.) DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN NORMAL!!! LOS ANGELES ...

Just realized I forgot to post that I will be appearing on a panel discussion about neighborhood councils and planning and land use issues t...

LA Times results at 8 AM Election results Board of Education District 3 26.48% precincts reporting votes percent Jon M. Lauritzen* 9,321 39....

Well, there are some hours old results - but they are largely the very first absentee votes. To find out who really won those races - and t...

The good news is that the LA Times is starting to cover Los Angeles. The bad news is that it's not always the serious news that impacts ...

Below is my article today in today's CITYWATCH: Can Neighborhood Councils Save Los Angeles From Burning? By Brady Westwater Well, i...