BALDWIN HILLS — When you see a member of the L.A. Soul Steppers stepping through the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza get out of the way. The Soul Steppers are a walking club of about 70-plus members. The free club for senior citizens meets once a month for a two-mile walk around the mall. The group Read More…
LOS ANGELES — A City Council committee got an earful Sept. 4 from advocates and members of the public about how the city should spend $123 million it expects to receive from the state next year for homeless housing and services. Members of the council’s Homelessness and Poverty Committee said they want to use funding Read More…
EL SERENO — The East Los Angeles Community Corporation and development partners celebrated the groundbreaking of an apartment complex for homeless veterans Aug. 29. The Rosa de Castilla Apartments, located at 4208 Huntington Drive South, is set to include 85 units of affordable housing, of which 49 will be for permanent supportive housing and 20 Read More…
There is yet another breath-taking cruel irony to the plight of the homeless. That is that the homeless pay for their homelessness. They pay in two ways. One is through taxes. The other is through who gets the tax dollars and how those dollars virtually guarantee that the ranks of the homeless will swell even Read More…
What a topsy-turvy world for USC. One day, you’re higher than a kite after the kid quarterback overcame a 17-3 deficit 17 minutes into the game to engineer a 45-20 victory over Stanford. Two days later you’re trying to figure out what happened to your athletic director. We’ll start with the happy news first. Kedon Read More…
LOS ANGELES — The HireLAX Apprenticeship Readiness Program graduated its sixth cohort Aug. 30, with 25 students ready to take the next step in their construction careers after successfully completing the intensive eight-week program taught at Los Angeles Southwest College. “Programs like HireLAX are critical to helping residents access quality union jobs and create pathways Read More…
