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THE CITY-In LA county approximately 15 percent of the nearly 11 million residents live in poverty, but COVID has caused that number to rise.   In the developing nation of India where Eric Garcetti has been short-listed for an ambassadorship, hundreds of millions of people among the 1.4 billion Indians are living in poverty.   Though there were only 580,466 people who experienced homelessness on a single night in the United States in 2020 according to HUD, approximately 75,000 of that group are here in LA County. India may have 1.8 million unhoused people.  Speaking p...

Historic Kickoff MY TURN-There was a lot of optimism on November 9, 2019, as dozens of candidates diligently filed paperwork and took historic pictures or videos as they kicked off campaigns to save the City.   The field of 2020 LA City election candidates had been invited to Piper Tech, an enormous loading dock near Union Station to collect fresh stacks of signature petitions for the March 3, 2020 ballot.    Each of the100 three-paged petitions that are explained in thirteen languages has room for twenty signatures, so if a candidate is so inclined, they could gather and submi...