Los Angeles

I grew up in Los Angeles and Richmond, Virginia.   By far the greatest part of my life, as a child and an adult, has been spent in S. California, primarily Los Angeles.   I graduated from UCLA.   I worked at the RAND Corporation.  I ran a visual effects studio in West Hollywood.  I lived in Santa Monica, Laurel Canyon, West Hollywood and Hollywood.

When I was very young I remember reading somewhere, probably the LA Times, but it might have been the Herald Tribune, about issues involving traffic, smog, education, racism and poverty in Los Angeles.  I don't remember too many details, but I do recall that it set out a series of warning flags, saying basically that you could fix it now or you could fix it later, but if you did not do something then things were going to get worse and be even more expensive.

And that is what happened, of course.

I am the son of a newspaperman.  I am well aware that a single person can not change a city, nor do I expect to be able to.  But I have no trouble writing down the things that I think are true, that the people who managed and ran LA in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and so forth kicked the can down the road and failed over and over again to take action to deal with the problems.

I was here, I saw what I saw.  I write about it.   I hope you don't mind, but I don't really care.  I am also a little bit sarcastic and angry about the betrayal and the lies, if you can't handle that, read no further.

You can find my posts about Los Angeles under this label.