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Protesters will be evicted from City Hall Park, but what's next for the movement seems sketchy at best.
Occupy L.A. encampment at City Hall I Photo: Ed Fuentes
The Occupy Los Angeles movement and the City of Los Angeles have been partners in a careful dance compared to the stumbling seen in other occupied cities.
Photo by Flickr user Floyd B. Bariscale
The Los Angeles City Council Redistricting Commission has a six-figure budget to hire a public relations firm. But just last week the top two contenders for the contract withdrew their bids.
The other day I went to a memorial for Larry Allison, editorials editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram. He died, after a short illness, in October at…
Dedication ceremony for green bike lanes I Photo: Maria Lopez
Councilmember José Huizar and Jan Perry led a Monday afternoon dedication for a set of 6-foot wide bike lanes, with 4-foot buffer zone, that use vivid green to enhance safety between riders and motorists.
Photo by Flickr user DailyCraft
The FPPC's new Chairwoman, Ann Ravel, has made it her mission to institute much needed regulatory reform. Prior to punishing public officials for violations of the PRA, it is best to ensure that they understand all of the applicable rules.
You can park here without a permit on Thanksgiving | Photo by Zach Behrens/KCET
The day after, however, parking officers will be applying the full force of the law.
Entrance gate to Agricultural Park (now Exposition Park). Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library Photograph Collection.
Exposition Park is known today for football games, dinosaur exhibits, and its sunken rose garden. But as its original name--Agricultural Park--suggests, the park's history reveals a time when farming in Los Angeles was not limited to rooftop skid row g...
Rooftop installation in Los Angeles
"The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has failed to take advantage of the tremendous environmental and economic potential that solar power offers our region."
The cost is obligating 27 years worth of Measure R funding to a crash program that will be over in two years or less.
Flyer announcing In the Red, "An Observance of Human Rights," held at Regeneracion in February 25, 1995. Image courtesy of Antonio Garcia.
Regeneración was a space where art, community, and politics merged in Highland Park, much like art collectives had done a generation before.
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We desperately need to reform our electoral and governmental processes.
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