Griffith Park isn’t “LA’s Central Park,” as it’s not very central — it’s too removed from West LA, South LA, and much of the San Fernando Valley. It’s also far too big — it’s four times the size of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, and five times the size…

After 9/11, the Bush administration pushed the PATRIOT act through congress — a wide ranging bill that gave the government all sorts of powers in the same of combatting terrorism. And who could argue with that? The United States had just been attacked, and at the time it was hard…

I live in Los Angeles, a city that gets an average of 16 inches of rain per year, over 34 rainy days. To put it another way, it’s sunny nearly year-round (284 days) and most of the time perfect weather to ride a bike. But when I tell people I…

In the early 80s, when I was a child, the minivan ruled the roost. “Soccer moms” (and dads) would use the vehicles to transport their kids to school, activities, and anywhere else their family needed to go. Minivan sales peaked in 2000, and then precipitously declined in favor of the…

Once Councilmember Paul Koretz terms out in 2022, the self proclaimed “environmentalist” who has worked to block bike and bus lanes for over a decade — including Uplift Melrose — will be gone. And with this change, we have an opportunity to make real progress in Council District 5. Here’s…

My oldest daughter just started Kindergarten, and when I took her to school on her first day last week, I experienced from my bicycle the way the majority of kids in Los Angeles get to/from school — and it broke my heart. As I biked my daughter to school…

Back in 2019, the Mid City West Neighborhood Council (whose board I currently sit on as Vice Chair) passed a motion asking for more bike/scooter corrals in Mid City West. The idea was simple — make it more convenient to park your bike, and maybe more people will use bikes…

Growing up in LA, you learn from an early age that a car is the only way to get around town. You equate cars with “freedom,” and it’s this thought that I had in my head at the DMV at 8am on my 16th birthday. I. Couldn’t. Wait. As I…

When LA’s Neighborhood Council system was formed in 1999, it was part of a larger charter reform effort to prevent the San Fernando Valley from seceding from the City. Each neighborhood council was given $50,000/year from the city and became the “closest form of government to the people,” advising city…