From The Sidelines 11-8-11
By Irving Leemon Let me get one thing straight, I’m not against greed in and of itself. We all want bigger and better things then we have now. I’m against…
From The Sidelines 10-31-11
By Irving Leemon The City’s governing body and mayor talk about making the City more business friendly. The problem is they keep raising the sewer treatment and other fees on…
Show Your Support For Occupy Wall Street
We, the undersigned, wish to express our deepest admiration to all of you who have initiated the non-violent Occupy Wall Street Movement and to those around the country who have…
Creating Thousands of Green Jobs on Impaired Farmland
By Kim Delfino, Daniel Kim, Carl Zichella, and Jay Ziegler Successful solar-energy development requires plenty of sunshine, but it also requires land— sometimes, lots of land. Developing utility-scale solar projects…
American Workers Deserve Respect
By Roger Smith “The middle class would not exist without organized labor.” So proclaimed Vice President Joe Biden at a recent speech in Ohio. He’s right. And with unemployment stuck…
An Op-Ed on Japan’s Claim to Tokdo Island
By Dr. Hong Beom Rhee For peace, all humans including Korean, Japanese, Asian, and American, who love truth above distortion of history, justice above injustice, and peace above war, must…
From the Sidelines 9-19-11
By Irving Leemon, Contributing Columnist In case you haven’t heard, there is a new app for ‘smart phones’ called “CLOO”. When you register on “CLOO” you are willing to rent…
Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation Raises Sewer Fee
Our city officials want to increase the Bureau of Sanitation sewer service charge fee by 40%. The last time these fees were increased was Mar 1 2005 $2.49, July 1…
From the Sidelines 9-12-11
By Irving Leemon, Contributing Columnist (This was written on September 7th at 1:30 PM, before the Republican debates.) Our state legislators in their wisdom have taken one of our cherished…
From the Sidelines 9-6-11
By Irving Leemon, Contributing Columnist This country is being ruined by a group of people who are nothing more then spoiled, ignorant children who have not been taught the history…