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Mid-City Development Creates Community Problem

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Sunday, 28 August 2011 17:10; Written by Carla Pineda

A group of Mid-City residents living atop the hill on 16th Place above Venice and San Vicente, woke up one morning to once again enjoy their amazing view of the Hollywood Hills. What they found instead was The Wall. Local residents using the Venice link to San Vicente also realized…

African Marketplace and Cultural Faire - Not This Year

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:06; Written by African Marketplace Inc

Is the African Marketplace and Cultural Faire happening this year? The African Marketplace and Cultural Faire will NOT be happening at the end of this summer at Rancho Cienega Park or in Leimert Park as so many have asked and speculated. The 25 year legacy of the AMP that garnered…

Council District 10 Hosts the 9th Annual HPOZ Conference

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:13; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Council District 10 and the United Neighborhoods Neighborhood Council (UNNC) district were chosen this year to host the 9th Annual Citywide HPOZ Conference, sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of City Planning and the Los Angeles Conservancy. The all-day event was held on May 7th at the McCarty Memorial Christian…

MTA-Leimert Park Uproar

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 21:33; Written by Damien Goodman

Metropolitan Transit Authority Decision Causes Uproar in African American Community Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a Metropolitan Transit Authority Board member spearheaded the movement to persuade the MTA to support and fund $120 million for a Crenshaw-LAX light rail stop at Leimert Park, an historic center of Los Angeles African American culture. He…

School Reports

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 14 April 2011 00:00; Written by Gavin Glynn

School bells are ringing louder in West Adams! Marguerite LaMotte was re-elected to the LAUSD School Board last March 8th, 2011. She was backed by the powerful UTLA union with $325,000 dollars toward her campaign. Ms. LaMotte has faithfully approved all raises for teachers. - Arlington Heights middle school added 17…

Does the City Attorney Have an Ace Up His Sleeve?

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:34; Written by Laura Meyers

One of the biggest issues in West Adams and throughout the city is code enforcement. Or, better said, NON-code enforcement. HPOZ board members everywhere complain that neither Building & Safety nor the Housing Department takes seriously the responsibility of enforcing historic preservation requirements. New developments are approved with no oversight…

Gramercy Park Resident Sends Film Profits To Charities

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Gramercy Park resident Brian Ide is the founder of ReDistribute, an innovative philanthropic model that connects the profits of film to the needs of a wide variety of charities focused on social issues. ReDistributeis guided by a governing principle: After costs and salaries are paid, every penny of their profit goes…

Pico Businesses Attempt to Unite

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:48; Written by Dianne Lawrence

Small boutiques, restaurants, hair salons, barbershops, coffee houses and more, are popping up like mushrooms in pockets along Pico, from La Brea to Fairfax, making it the best kept secret shopping destination in Los Angeles. P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council business representative and owner of Maison de Pain, a local favorite bakery,…

Eureka Cafe Gets Into the Spirits

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:48; Written by Dianne Lawrence

After a long arduous process, Johnnie and Theresa Green have finally been able to secure a full bar liquor license and necessary permits for their Eureka Cafe.Eureka has become a popular weekend spot for locals who want to socialize while eating their omelets, along with outsiders, who come for the famous…

Herb Wesson Pulls Well Away From the Pack

Details: Category: Community News; Published on Thursday, 10 March 2011 20:22; Written by Dianne Lawrence

In 2007 Herb J. Wesson ran unopposed in CD10. In 2011 six candidates, unhappy with what they were seeing or not seeing in District 10, came forward to challenge the incumbent. Yet try as they might, they were unable to combine their votes to force Councilman Wesson into a run…

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Mid-City Development Creates Community Problem

African Marketplace and Cultural Faire - Not This Year

Council District 10 Hosts the 9th Annual HPOZ Conference

MTA-Leimert Park Uproar

School Reports

Does the City Attorney Have an Ace Up His Sleeve?

Gramercy Park Resident Sends Film Profits To Charities

Pico Businesses Attempt to Unite

Eureka Cafe Gets Into the Spirits

Herb Wesson Pulls Well Away From the Pack

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