Residents living under the FAA’s NextGen airplane highway were alarmed when the many efforts of the Los Angeles World Airport (LAWA) community Roundtable, and affected councilmembers led by Council President Wesson, were being summarily dismissed by the FAA. These efforts included numerous letters to the FAA that went unanswered…
Minority AIDS Project (MAP) located at 5149 W. Jefferson Blvd is the first community-based HIV/AIDS organization established and managed by people of color in the United States. Archbishop Carl Bean and members of Unity Fellowship Church founded Minority AIDS Project in 1985. MAP’s services and educational programs are community-wide and…
{jcomments off}Hello there! You may have noticed that we at the Collaborative have been pretty quiet this year.After all of last year's outreach for Destination: Pico, all 1,500 conversations we had with members of our community, all eight workshops, the surveys, the business visits, the art zine, the pedestrian…
Neighborhood council elections happen every two years. Together, LA’s 99 neighborhood councils form the grassroots level of the City’s government and while their board members serve their communities as volunteers, they are also public officials elected by the members of their community. In 2019, 94 of LA’s 99 Neighborhood Councils…
EDITOR: In an effort to confront the homeless crisis Mayor Garcetti “declared an emergency shelter crisis and took advantage of a new state law that enables cities to construct homeless shelters on any land owned or leased by the city. To accelerate the construction of these shelters, the Mayor’s 2018-19…
This is part of our ongoing report and investigation into the Federal Aviation Administration's NextGen airflight highway which is raining down sound and pollution misery on communities in California and across the country. Jeffrey Lewis worked for the FAA as an air traffic controller before being forced into early retirement…
On Friday March 2, 2018 (one of the rainiest days in Los Angeles) Mayor Eric Garcetti opened the doors of Getty House to the media, community stakeholders, neighborhood council members, and the myriad of city departments that serve our every need.The reason for this occasion was the signing of…
This article, "The Ballot Initiative to Repeal the Exclusive Trash Franchise," appeared in CitywatchLA, March 12, 2018, and was reprinted with their permission. Light editing for clarity by TNNWhat began in the back rooms of LA City Hall between special interests groups, allies on City Council and the Mayor’s Office hit…
Forgotten to some, and unknown to others, Los Angeles is home to the nation’s largest urban oil field and was producing as much oil as Saudi Arabia in the 1920s. Oil production in California was first discovered in the 1890s, and for the following 50 years the Los Angeles…
Photo courtesy of CityWatchLA On March 28, 2018, the Environmental Justice Collaborative and Friends of the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative, represented by LTL Attorneys, LLP, won their case against the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles City Council, and Real Parties in Interests Colony Holdings, LLC, and developer Michael Hakim. This…
Established in August of 2008 by writer, artist Dianne V. Lawrence, The Neighborhood News covers the events, people, history, politics and historic architecture of communities throughout the Mid-City and West Adams area in Los Angeles Council District 10.
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