LA’s mayor’s about to announce that all of LA will be off coal by 2020. A press conference will start soon! Okay, sorry. That blurb from my Blackberry was more appropriate for a Twitter Post, but I was at JETRO’s (Japan External Trade Organization) Greening the City event in downtown LA this afternoon when one of [...]

I’m so thrilled.  After years of NIMBYism, supported by the hypocritical likes of Henry Waxman, the Metropolitan Transit Authority approved the subway to the sea.  Well, it’s more rail to the sea as we are talking about a light-rail line.  Although one neighborhood, Cheviot Hills, fought tooth and nail against the project (even though the [...]

It’s Sunday afternoon, and after walking up and down Sunset Boulevard taking care of some errands, I’m sitting in our backyard with the view of Century City and the Wilshire Corridor in the far distance.  I’ve grown to love that stretch of Wilshire, starting with the former Bullock’s department store (now Southwestern Law School), slicing [...]