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Video: Putting down
organic roots in
Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow – A week ago, this plot of land in the
southwest corner
of the Central Valley, nestled against Elk Hills, was full of scrub
brush. The
land hadn’t been farmed in years. It couldn’t – a well had to be dug,
and a pump
and water tank had to be installed.
Now, ...
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Work experience programs for at-risk
youth are receiving a boost from a partnership between City Councilwoman
Jan Perry, the Community Development Technologies Center, and the Los
Angeles Department of Water and Power whom recently launched an energy
conservation and services work experience program aimed at bringing
green job training cl...
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A report form the Swing State Project says long-time LA Congresswoman Diane Watson will retire this year and not seek re-election.Diarist CarnahanDem reported that word of Watson's retireement came up at a meeting of the California congressional delegation where members said she was quietly informing them of her intention. "Word is that Former CA Assembly Speaker Karen Bass will immediately enter the race following Watson's announcement. Further proof... |
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 As you know, I have been critical of District Attorney Steve Cooley’s penchant for selective prosecutions that always seem to adversely impact the duly elected and often most effective elected officials of minority communities. I have always held that Cooley’s only purpose in filing felony charges against former Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn was to remove him from office. Well, I no longer feel like John the Baptist crying in the wilderness as more and more ... |
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 The former mayor of Vernon was ordered to pay more than $500,000 after being found guilty of defrauding the city by retaining his post after moving to Los Angeles. The sentence handed down Thursday includes the repayment of nearly $400,000 in salary and other compensation that 80-year-old Leonis Malburg received since his 2006 re-election. Malburg and his 83-year-old wife Dominica were convicted of voter fraud and other charges in a non-jury trial last month. Los Ang... |
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 A Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Monday that the Los Angeles City Council violated the state's open meeting law by approving a 76,000-square-foot shopping center in South Los Angeles without giving the public sufficient advance notice.The ruling will probably force the council to conduct a new vote on the project, which called for a supermarket and pharmacy at Slauson and Central avenues but drew strong opposition from the South Central Farmers Action Fund, a... |
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 Southern California's twin ports make up the nation's biggest cargo container hub -- and they're launching an ambitious campaign to stay that way as they navigate a weak economic recovery and increasing competition from foreign and domestic harbors. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are aggressively advertising and giving customers discounts at a time when they and most other U.S. ports are wrapping up their worst ever year-over-year decline in shippin... |
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 LONG BEACH - The search for the next police chief has spawned a major controversy. At the center of the flap is City Manager Pat West's decision to extend the application process to allow outside candidates after an internal application deadline expired earlier this month. To many members of the police force, it came across as an insult to the internal candidates and smacked of back door deals. Some officers were so outraged they have started a petition ... |
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