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By Joe Linton | Sep 8, 2021 | No Comments

How Some Koreatown Residents Are Being Squeezed Out Of Their Apartments (LAist) City Doesn’t Know What’s In Huntington Drive Improvements, Except Not Road Diet (Eastsider) New Short Ride In Living Color Documentary on Biking While Black (Biking in L.A.) Port Waiting For Approvals For Large On-Dock Rail Project (LB Post) 61 Affordable Homes Complex Nearing […]

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | Aug 31, 2021 | No Comments

Metro & LADOT Plan Olive & Grand Bus Lanes, Meeting Tonight (Urbanize, The Source) L.A. Magazine Interviews Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors Carnage: 3 Adults, 3 Children Injured In Santa Clarita Car Crash (Daily News) …Motorcyclist Killed In Long Beach Crash (LB Post) …Suspect Arrested In Fatal Covina Hit-and-Run (SGV Tribune) Arches Revealed On […]

The LADWP-owned vacant lot at Figueroa and Slauson is slated to become a park. Join the Department of Recreation and Parks and the office of Councilmember Curren Price this Saturday to provide input on the amenities you would like to see there.

Saturday: Help Plan Senator Bill Greene Memorial Park at Figueroa and Slauson

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 27, 2021 | No Comments

The lot at 5800 S. Figueroa has sat vacant since 1959

Despite having given press statements regarding the imminent detonation at 716 E. 27th St., called in the fire department to be on standby, placed the last of the explosive materials in the TCV ten minutes prior to detonation as helicopters from local TV stations hovered overhead, and yelled “Fire in the hole!” to warn observers they were about to set off the counter charges, LAPD’s very first public step after the blast was to take to twitter and launch an active disinformation campaign.

Anatomy of an Officer-Involved Explosion: a Post-Mortem on LAPD’s E. 27th Street Fireworks Blast

By Sahra Sulaiman | Aug 11, 2021 | No Comments

A year ago, a councilmember co-authored a motion to shift $150mil from LAPD's budget. A month ago, LAPD called everyone but his office to watch them detonate fireworks in his district. The botched operation rocked the city.

About that Bus Shelter Tweet: Street Services’ Demo Draws Attention to Sorry State of L.A. Bus Stops

By Damien Newton and Sahra Sulaiman | Jul 22, 2021 | No Comments

Earlier today, a tweet from Metro in support of the Bureau of Street Services’ pop-ups on potential bus shelter designs featuring the above image quickly drew a lot of, er, shade. What about when more than two people are waiting for the bus? https://t.co/nwzwnm9zCM — TransitCenter (@TransitCenter) July 22, 2021 People across the twittersphere dunked […]

Today’s Headlines

By Joe Linton | May 14, 2021 | No Comments

Councilmember de León Opposes Beautiful Boulevard BRT For Eagle Rock (Boulevard Sentinel) …de León statement: “Metro should develop an alternative … maintaining two through lanes” Higher Court Freezes Orders To House Skid Row Unhoused People (LAist, LAT, L.A. Magazine) Senior Home Proposal Becomes Flashpoint In Boyle Heights Gentrification Fight (LAist) Planning Commission Approves 70-Story Tower […]

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