Tag Archives: middle class

Standing up for what we believe in — My Sunday Column for Glendale-Burbank-Pasadena Papers

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

For people who came of age in the Roaring ’20s or the Great Depression that followed, this is déjà vu all over again, a moment in history that must make them feel like they have taken a step back in … Continue reading →

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Death Blow to LA’s Middle Class

Posted on August 24, 2010 by

For decades, City Hall experimented with a bizarre form of municipal socialism, enriching the rich, impoverishing the poor and driving away the middle class. The 2000 census showed that white flight in the 1980s had become middle-class flight, cutting across … Continue reading →

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LA Boycotts Arizona over Immigration Law — Companies Boycott LA over Anti-Business Climate

Posted on May 12, 2010 by

The mayor and the City Council, weary from the daily beating they’ve been taking in the press and public, found the perfect distraction in Arizona’s highly questionable attempt to take federal immigration law into its own hands. Not only did … Continue reading →

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City Hall’s War Against the Middle Class

Posted on April 19, 2009 by

Sometimes it’s harder than other times to suck down my anger over how our city officials carry out their pogrom against the middle class year after year, seemingly oblivious to how their actions subject the poor to generations of poverty, … Continue reading →

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