Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Public Health

A Food Desert By Any Other Name

By Joel Epstein | Mar 27, 2012 | 6 Comments

What is the real story behind food deserts? New research from the Public Policy Institute of California comes to the same conclusion that researchers from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy came to five years ago. I guess the confirmation of these findings is cause for a low calorie celebration. Or perhaps a victory lap around the Staples Center, […]

Go Frack Yourself, Part II: PXP Blames Cracked Home Foundations on Pesky Earthquake Faults

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 23, 2012 | 3 Comments

(Part 1 of the series is here.) IF FRACKING IS such a safe practice, then why is it such a secretive one? For the past several years, outspoken journalist and media critic Earl Ofari Hutchinson has likely been asking himself that question. Hutchinson is a resident of Windsor Hills, a community that sits adjacent to […]

Has Ball, Needs Field: A Parking Lot Becomes a Fútbol Field for an Afternoon

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 22, 2012 | 9 Comments

RIDING BACK FROM an interview at a school garden off King Blvd., I came across a dozen guys engaged in a serious game of fútbol in a Coliseum parking lot. Curious, I plopped myself down next to Oscar Villatoro, a sweet guy in glasses who was sitting out the game because of a bum knee. […]

Can $16 Million in Public Health Funds Reverse County’s Obesity Problems?

By Patrick Johnson | Mar 13, 2012 | 4 Comments

LA County is the most populous county in the nation. Almost 10 million residents claim LA County as home. Keeping tabs on the health of the community and providing health services to such a large and robust population is a big task. And while the public perception is that LA is one of the healthiest […]

Go Frack Yourself: neighbors in Baldwin Hills turn out to talk fracking with Plains Exploration & Production and DOGGR

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 9, 2012 | 1 Comment

Last night, representatives from the Department of Conservation’s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), the oil company in charge of the Baldwin Hill Oil Field, and other officials went head to head with members of the Greater Baldwin Hills Alliance and a highly a skeptical community in a […]

Streetsblog Profile: Public Health Advocate and UCLA Professor Richard Jackson

By Damien Newton | Feb 29, 2012 | 2 Comments

Episode 4: Searching for Shangri La – (preview) from MPC on Vimeo. (Jackson will be speaking as part of the UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation’s “Complete Streets Conference” this Friday. Tickets are sold out, and despite an earlier report they won’t be accepting walk-ins . If you check back here Monday for Streetsblog’s coverage. […]

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