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Category: Opinion


Brentwood Beat: Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore

May 27, 2021

May 27, 2021

On May 4, I wrote an article that appeared in the Brentwood News (and BrentwoodNewsLA.com) entitled, “A 22-Point Plan to...

Is Permanent Housing the Real Homeless Solution?

May 23, 2021

May 23, 2021

By Tom Elias, Columnist The ultimate goal of city and county agencies trying to solve California’s homeless problem is to...

How to Heal the Soil and Why

May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021

By Andy Lopez We all know how important the vital role the soil plays in your plants’ health, trees, and...

A 22-POINT PLAN TO DEAL WITH LA’s HOMELESSNESS SITUATION

May 2, 2021

May 2, 2021

People are freaking out about the homelessness issue – and with good reason. The sidewalk camps are everywhere, trash abounds,...

Cities Chip Away at R-1 Zoning

April 5, 2021

April 5, 2021

By Tom Elias Brentwood News Columnist It’s become like a rite of spring: Every year, state legislators reject the most...

Response to Opinion of Toby Muresianu

March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021

By Raymond Klein * An Opinion piece by Toby Muresianu in the Brentwood News on February 15, 2021, contained the...

Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

February 26, 2021

February 26, 2021

By Tom Elias, Columnist The mysterious blindness that apparently affected California’s top legislative housing advocates all through 2020 seems to...

Housing Backers Start Facing Post-Pandemic Reality

February 21, 2021

February 21, 2021

By Tom Elias, Columnist The mysterious blindness that apparently affected California’s top legislative housing advocates all through 2020 seems to...

Opinion: Five Reasons Why Brentwood Needs More Housing, Less Hyperbole

February 12, 2021

February 12, 2021

By Toby Muresianu California’s housing crisis affects us all. We see it in omnipresent homelessness, in COVID outbreaks in overcrowded...

The Big Price When Scofflaws Don’t Enforce the Law

January 12, 2021

January 12, 2021

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