Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti launched an initiative Thursday aimed at cleaning up the city's trash-strewn streets, sidewalks and alleys. Standing in a Pico Union alley where 13 tons of illegally dumped trash was removed in recent days by sanitation crews, Garcetti signed an executive order and laid out the framework of a $9.1-million "Clean [...]
LA Law Library Hosts 3rd Annual Slate of Learning Events for the Public Making the law accessible is the daily focus of LA Law Library's efforts to connect citizens of LA with specialists who can provide useful information, resources and tools aimed at helping members of the LA community understand and successfully navigate the legal [...]
For the past 16 years, Peace Over Violence has run its Denim Day campaign on a Wednesday in April in honor of Sexual Violence Awareness Month. The campaign was originally triggered by a ruling by the Italian Supreme Court where a rape conviction was overturned because the justices felt that since the victim was wearing [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. I started my Neighborhood Council filled week on Sunday at the Chatsworth Neighborhood Council’s 12th Annual Day of the Horse. It was a fun filled equestrian event co-hosted by Councilmember Mitch Englander. I even walked away from with a great outreach pen in the shape of a horse [...]
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Garcetti today announced today that, as a New Orleans appeals court is set to hear oral arguments today in the lawsuit temporarily delaying President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, cities across the nation kicked off Immigrant Heritage Week (IHW) by hosting events in advance of the new reforms. Immigrant Heritage Week [...]
I hope our newsletter finds you well. On Saturday, I was happy to see City Council President Herb Wesson at the LANCC. He spent nearly 2 hours speaking about his plans for the Education & Neighborhoods Committee and taking questions and suggestions from the Neighborhood Council leaders. Some of his proposals were to increase Neighborhood [...]
Mayor Garcetti Opens Five Miles Of New Bus Lanes On Wilshire Boulevard LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), and the Federal Transit Administration, along with officials from the city of L.A. and L.A. County, announced bus riders on one of the [...]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Thursday announced what he called an “unprecedented outreach campaign” in the city’s continuing effort to get residents to use less water amid California’s drought. The campaign — titled “Save the Drop” — will coordinate existing outreach programs from across the city, according to a statement from Garcetti's office. To [...]
The PRNC is pleased to announce that Termo has undertaken this responsibility to our community and will be conducting an EIR as well a forum for discussion. The Porter Ranch Neighborhood Council has just received word from Termo, who is proposing a drilling project in the hills above Porter Ranch, that they are working with [...]
LA’s 96 Neighborhood Councils are, as Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance steering committee member Sherri Akers, puts it, the “secret weapons to a sustainable LA.” Why? NC's fiercely... : care about their communities; care about Los Angeles; and care about a resilient and sustainable future for LA. They also recognize that we are more effective when [...]
