Despite all the talk about parks and development, the Redondo Beach power plant isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Professional beach volleyball isn't ever going to be anything more than a minor sport outside a handful of beach areas in the United States.

The San Diego Freeway has become the worst freeway in the greater Los Angeles area.

In a business setting, a man wearing a dress has more credibility than a man wearing a bowtie.

Until somebody starts building more beaches, the South Bay has relatively little to fear from the bursting of the housing bubble.

If parents of children in the Los Angeles Unified School District were to visit public schools in nearby cities and other states around the country, they would take to the streets with pitchforks and torches.

Real estate agents and developers exert substantial control over the coverage of local news.

No one gets anywhere in a hurry driving behind a truck with gardening equipment in the back.

No formal plan to modernize Los Angeles International Airport will ever be implemented, so expansion will take place outside public channels through unregulated incremental growth.

The South Bay will never again be linked to greater Los Angeles by subway or light rail.

(June 30, 2005)

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