Honesty and compromise remain admirable values and effective political tools — especially on the local level where policymakers, community members, and activists are literally rubbing elbows with each other.

In a city that remains famously horizontal, it’s fun to get excited about something vertical.

For all their popularity, setbacks have little basis in engineering or architecture. They are simply regulatory whims.

Among the grandiose promises, half-truths, and outright whoppers that sponsors of Measure S proffered, one of the most consistent messages concerned the depravity of real estate developers.

Deportation is — to say the least — the most perverse way to solve a housing crisis.

Nasty as it sounds, Green Acres ‘Farm’ in Kern County is an apt symbol of the symbiosis between rural and urban areas.

This year, while NIMBY’s were tittering about LULU’s, the “drill baby drill” crowd was marshaling its forces.

If Donald Trump threatens to pull the nation back into the past, I suggest that California remains — as ever — its future.

LAX is always under construction or renovation –in sometimes valiant, sometimes halfhearted, usually halting attempts to spruce up L.A.’s “nine terminals linked by a traffic jam.” It’s one traffic jam that may finally end.