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""You and the Mayor created this crisis, and we resent being tasked now with cleaning up after your destructive policy decisions. Why are such crises not seen in Beverly Hills or Manhattan Beach?" write CD 11 constituents.

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Letter to Editor: Opposition to CD 11 Homeless Shelters

April 11, 2021 YoVenice

To the Honorable Councilman Mike Bonin, My family and friends strongly object to your City Council motion March 31st, to...

"I recently visited a few schools across my district to see these protocols and safety measures firsthand, including Walgrove Elementary in Venice. Campuses are ready and staff is prepared and eager to have students back at school," writes." Nick Melvoin (center) LAUSD District 4 Board Member Board District 4, which includes Venice. Photo: Courtesy.

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Getting LAUSD Kids Back in the Classroom

April 5, 2021 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Nick Melvoin LAUSD District 4 Board Member Board District 4 This past year has been exceptionally difficult for the...

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Column: Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

February 25, 2021 YoVenice

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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Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

February 21, 2021 YoVenice

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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Creating your Own Stimulus in 2021 – How Southern California Residents Can Use Lawsuit Funding to Help with Everyday Bills

February 7, 2021 Yo! Venice Contributor

Lawsuit funding is an alternative to direct cash payments for immediate help Despite unprecedented government assistance in 2020, many American...

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Was This California’s Biggest-Ever Bait and Switch?

January 26, 2021 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist It may have been the biggest bait and switch event ever perpetrated in California, affecting...

"Of the five California counties with the highest seven-day average COVID-19 cases in the week leading up to Christmas, just one has taken strong enforcement measures," writes Tom Elias in his latest column. Photo: Sam Catanzaro.

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The Big Price When Scofflaws Don’t Enforce the Law

January 12, 2021 Yo! Venice Contributor

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

"There is, for example, no way she could easily reach her home in that leafy district over the last few years without passing by a homeless encampment or two. A large one still exists adjacent to the expansive West Los Angeles Veterans Administration hospital and home, less than three miles from her recent residence," writes Tom Elias on Vice President-Elect and Westside resident Kamala Harris.

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Column: Biden and Harris Could Reverse State’s Role

December 20, 2020 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist It has been more than 30 years since any federal administration featured a Californian in a...

"Yes, health workers will be the first Californians to get the vaccine. But not nursing home residents. This is a huge failing in the state’s plan for prioritizing inoculations against the plague that has killed almost 300,000 Americans – about one-third of them living in long term care." Photo: Getty Images.

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Nursing Home Residents Need High Vaccine Priority

December 15, 2020 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist Teachers’ unions, police and firefighters argued in early December they ought to get the expected new...

"the split roll will return in the next general election, with a different number and a different ballot description, but the same mission of revising current property tax law to make business property owners pay more of the freight."

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Prop. 13 Still the Third Rail? Not Exactly

December 13, 2020 YoVenice

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist Proposition 13 is still the third rail of California politics,” crowed Jon Coupal in...

"No one knows if the current almost statewide 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew will slow infection. One thing for certain: it won’t achieve much if it’s not enforced, and many county sheriffs from Los Angeles to Sacramento and beyond are not bothering," writes Tom Elias in his latest column. Photo:Getty Images.

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Column: Will Flailing at the Virus Do Much Good?

December 1, 2020 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist It is well established that wearing face masks confers a high degree of protection...

" voters essentially laughed off frequent claims by advocates for Proposition 21 that its statewide mandate for rent controls would somehow alleviate the state’s very serious and growing problem with homelessness. They saw that nothing in the proposition would have allowed tenants to remain in houses and apartments without paying rent," writes Tom Elias in his latest column.

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

November 23, 2020 YoVenice

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist For more than two months, California airwaves were filled with political hype, in large part because...

"Their thinking – really a prejudice against all but the most dense of housing situations – is that people shouldn’t have space around them and that all neighborhoods should be open to anybody, even those who lack the funds to buy or rent there," writes Tom Elias in his latest column. Photo: Getty.

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Column: Housing Likely to Highlight the 2022 Ballot

November 15, 2020 YoVenice

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist One thing has been inevitable ever since extreme liberals in the California Legislature led by Democratic...

"Passing this would indicate a new, less crime-tolerant attitude in California. This would require a shift of at least 10 percent of the electorate away from supporting the earlier prison-emptying measures." Photo:

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Column: Would Prop. 20 Help Against Wildfires, Crime?

October 22, 2020 YoVenice

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist Anyone examining the unintended consequences of California’s many past ballot propositions cannot possibly ignore...

"The claim that the coronavirus plague is a hoax has not died since anti-vaxxers began shouting it last spring at rallies against shutdown orders. It’s been picked up by the many more folks who are reluctant to wear masks and by people who claim – without evidence – that masks prevent them from breathing well," writes Tom Elias in his latest column.

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

October 6, 2020 Yo! Venice Contributor

By Tom Elias, Yo! Venice Columnist The headline back on June 12 was threatening: “A revolt against masks creates new...

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