L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

by Ty Davison | Oct 3, 2025 | News & Commentary

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie – WSJ: The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral that began when the dual strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023. Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are...

In the Battle Over Early Algebra, Parents Are Winning

by Ty Davison | Feb 4, 2024 | News & Commentary

In the Battle Over Early Algebra, Parents Are Winning – WSJ: San Francisco’s public school district set off a yearslong fight with parents when it decided to prevent students from taking algebra until high school, an attempt to combat racial inequities in math...

California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse.

by Ty Davison | Jul 13, 2023 | News & Commentary

California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The problem has gotten worse | CNN: California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless...

To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes

by Ty Davison | Mar 14, 2023 | News & Commentary

To Increase Equity, School Districts Eliminate Honors Classes – WSJ: CULVER CITY, Calif.—A group of parents stepped to the lectern Tuesday night at a school board meeting in this middle-class, Los Angeles-area city to push back against a racial-equity...

102 million dead trees in California

by Ty Davison | Nov 20, 2016 | News & Commentary

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-dead-trees-20161118-story.htmlAt some point Climate Change deniers have to confront reality. Or at least one would hope.