It was an unprecedented affront.

The City Council’s recent rebuff of a request by City Staff and the Sheriff’s Department for a minimal forty five day moratorium on applications to extend business hours after 2:00 a.m., is a reflection of just how far the Council will go to pander for campaign contributions and shows just how little regard they have for the public’s welfare.

When the West Hollywood Sheriff’s Department makes a simple request that City Council refrain from granting any further “after hours” requests so that the Department can evaluate the impact of the applications granted to date, it would seem that City Council would defer to the Sheriff’s professional expertise... [full story]

Is disaster looming?

My father, in the Nineteen Thirties, believed (until it was almost too late) that Hitler was a passing fancy.

People also said, “Well, Mussolini made the trains run on time.”

Those were the trains that eventually brought Jews and homosexuals and gypsies and the physically and mentally disabled to the slaughterhouses... [full story]

The August 4 commentary by Mayor Prang and Councilmember Guarriello left this reader a bit baffled.

It was clear that they cared very passionately about an issue; it was also clear that they had been outmaneuvered and snookered again by John Heilman.

But the commentary got so muddled by political correct editing and self serving rhetoric that it was hard to figure out what they hoped to accomplish ... [full story]

When the 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, it would be nearly a year before I would be chased down the streets by former school chums because I had to wear a yellow Star of David armband.

So, I was rooting for a German athlete named Lutz Long to win (Jesse Owens did).

As historians tell it, 1936 was really the first year that the Olympics became “political” ... [full story]

We told you two years ago that the West Hollywood City Council was determined to put ten story buildings along Santa Monica Boulevard despite opposition from the residents.

You heard it first in the WeHo News and you protested mightily, causing then-candidate John Heilman to deny the move during a debate – a denial that was shown to be a lie when candidate Ed Buck brandished the council resolution he voted for calling for ten-story buildings.

Earlier this month Casden Properties hosted a neighborhood meeting to publicly unveil their plans for a mixed use project at Movietown Plaza... [full story]

It shocks me the amount of people I have known throughout the years who moved to West Hollywood only to move back to where they came from because they ended up "hating" it here.

They love it at first, then end up hating the city and blaming the people here as their reason.

Classic point was a friend "Jim" who was from Washington, D.C. - he transferred from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles in 1986 and moved into an apartment in the middle of the bar area, on Palm Avenue ... [full story]

At the recent City Council meeting, John Heilman participated by phone from Amsterdam.

Realizing the time difference, it was certainly courageous of him to either get up or stay up at that witching hour in the Netherlands, but, having spent some frivolous time in Amsterdam (unlike John, who is there to teach) time has a way of being ignored.

Still, I wonder what the phone bill was like- and who paid it?... [full story]

Having seen the dirty tricks and lies the city had used in the past, the claim that they wanted to help the homeless was hard for me to trust, but I was determined to interview the homeless with an open mind.

I had my wife write the answers down to this simple question.

The question was, “Do you feel the City Council or police want to help you?” For the sake of the children, I will censor some of the more colorful answers and get to the heart of the answers ... [full story]