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No more canned or frozen food items will be served to students within the Los Angeles Unified School District.
The second largest district in the country is eliminating canned and frozen food items from their menus.
Rendering of proposed downtown L.A. football stadium | Courtesy AEG
AEG is asking state lawmakers to pass special legislation that would protect the developer from lawsuits that could delay or stop progress on the downtown stadium
A bicycle sharing rack in Washington D.C.
A bike sharing is on the table in Los Angeles. Let's not stick with the conventional wisdom.
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We look at what was said after the Board of Public Work's voted to deny the event its permit.
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A permit for this weekend's Sunset Junction Music Festival was denied for the second time this week, effectively canceling the event for the first time since it began 31 years ago.
Vernon has been so corrupt for so long that, were it not for the gross malfeasance of Bell city officials, Vernon would be the dictionary definition of a city without legitimacy.
At the Sunset Junction Music Festival in 2009
After being denied a permit over unpaid fees for this weekend's event, organizers from the Sunset Junction Music Festival say they are optimistic they will be able to pay the city's bill.
A crowd at the Sunset Junction Music Festival in 2007
A city panel today voted to deny a permit for the Sunset Junction Music Festival scheduled for this weekend, but the move could be reversed this Wednesday.
Assembly Speaker John Perez
It is time to enact common sense rules that allow the public to see the money given to and spent by, their elected representatives.
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The last time mayoral candidates ran for an open seat was 2001. In that race six candidates spent slightly over $20 million. Even in a bad economy, we could easily see similar, if not higher, spending for the 2013 election.
The politics of taxation in California make it almost impossible to raise general revenues for the common good.
A Norman Bus Bench on Wilshire Blvd. in Westlake, as seen in 2009 | Photo by Matt Fleischer
Norman Advertising's bus bench contract expired nearly two years ago. Why is the city council just getting around to dealing with it now?
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