I had the pleasure of sitting down earlier this week and speaking with Culver City Council Member, Meghan Shahli-Wells.  As Culver City’s immediate past Mayor, Meghan is entering her fourth year as a member of the City Council in Culver City. She has championed initiatives to improve the lives of children in her community, and ...

Steve and Kevin are at it again bringing their thoughts, opinions and reactions to last week’s international, national, state and local headlines. Acts of corruption, malfeasance, ineptitude, skullduggery and arrogance screamed from the headlines the past week. But hey, it’s all grist for the mill here at the Center for Populist Urban Politics as we churn ...

Welcome to another edition of the Center For Progressive Urban Politics Weekly News Wrap Up (WNWU) for the week ending Friday, April 24, 2015.  This weekend we discuss: The Armenian genocide, More misconduct on the part of the Los Angeles Police Department, and what a local city election tells us about the political environment today. Thanks for watching and don’t forget ...

                I The man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts.  The day was green.   They said, “You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.”   The man replied, “Things as they are Are changed upon the blue guitar.”   And they said then.  “But play, you must, A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,   A tune upon the blue guitar Of things ...

We recently sat down with Josef Bray Ali, Owner of the Flying Pigeon Bike shop and bike lane activist to learn more about the controversy over a proposed bike lane on Figueroa Street in Northeast Los Angeles (NELA).  We learned in the interview how a plan for an extensive bike lane that had been green lighted ...