Comments of the Week: 'Let's Just Call This Diabetes Corner'

We take pride in our work here at Patch and always strive to bring our readers interesting news. However, we must admit, sometimes the most interesting part of a great Patch story is the comments from readers that it sparks. 

Here are some of the best, funniest, strangest and most informative comments from Patch stories around the Northeast L.A. and Hollywood Patch sites this past week: 

Our top comment of the week came on a story about a new donut shop opening up in Highland Park. 

Josef Bray-Ali August 28, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Great. This place is next to Scoops and across the street from the panaderia. Let's just call this diabetes corner. I blame my weight gain on York Blvd.

Eagle Rock Patch visited a new e-cigarette store  in the neighborhood, where the manager explained to us how they are a "healthy" alternative to tobacco. At least one reader is a little skeptical. 

Jeff August 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM
Only a nicotine-spiked liquid and propylene glycol (PEG) ? Can't you squeeze any more chemicals in there for that "healthy" alternative to smoking?

Probably the most hotly debated story on Northeast L.A. Patch sites was the news that the city council is poised to lift the mural ban. This brought out strongly worded comments from both sides of the aisle.

robert klein August 29, 2013 at 05:58 PMlifting of mural ordinance ban; outrageous notion to unleash an army of 'street artists' to defile our community. This is repugnant graffiti that has no place on the walls of businesses nor homes

Busy Street August 29, 2013 at 09:56 AM
The murals are a fine way to introduce the community to art and should reflect all the many cultures in our Los Angles neighbor hood. Peace

And finally, probably the most controversial local issue at the moment in Hollywood is the Millennium Project. How controversial? Hollywood Patch reader Harold Wood had some words to a lot to say about it—about 549 words, to be exact. 

Harold Wood August 30, 2013 at 04:22 PM
This story begins either in 1993 when Dick Riordan re-introduced vast corruption to L.A. City Hall or we could zoom forward 13 years to 2006 when the new Planning Director said that unless L.A. stopped allowing developers to buy whatever zoning they wanted, we would end in "disaster." Then, in 2013, Christopher Thornberg, economist and founder of Beacon Enconomics, explained that Garcetti's way of trying to pick winners and losers leads to all sorts of corruption...Read the rest here.