Joel Jacinto, a member of the powerful Los Angeles Board of Public Works, which oversees major infrastructure and environmental decisions for Mayor Eric Garcetti, abruptly resigned Friday January 18 amidst a …
Ban Developer Money to the Los Angeles City Council and All Elected Officials. Here’s Why
(Los Angeles on $300,000 a year is a cover story published by LA Weekly on Feb. 25, 2009. Link to the full investigation is at bottom. As developer money and FBI/IRS probes of …
Special Report: FBI Investigation and Pay-to-Play at Los Angeles City Hall
Pay-to-Play in the City of Los Angeles “Money Goes in, Favors Go Out, We All Pay. Who Do L.A. City Hall Leaders Work For?” A Special Report and Timeline on Backroom …
NYT: A Seismic Change in Predicting How Earthquakes Will Shake Los Angeles – How Was This Missed by the Los Angeles Times?
Earthquake engineers at a conference in Los Angeles were told to warn the public that buildings over 20 stories in Los Angeles, Seattle and San Francisco could collapse in a big …
Outcry in Hollywood Saves Huge Shade Trees on Cherokee from Destruction — For Now
Widespread anger at Los Angeles City government’s failure for three years to adopt best practices to save large public shade trees while repairing sidewalk cracks finally erupted, in Hollywood, last …
Should Los Angeles Homeless Housing Cost Half a Million Dollars ($500,000) Per Unit?
KCRW’s week-long series on homelessness raises stark truths about the cost of building HHH units for the homeless, which the Coalition to Preserve LA has been shouting about for months. This …
Take L.A.’s Tree Survey and Save our Crucial Urban Tree Canopy: Survey’s Closed
Watch this space for Dudek’s report coming in December. Coalition to Preserve LA calls on the L.A. City Council and Mayor Eric Garcetti to rebuild our dying urban tree canopy. …
Oppose Millennium Hollywood, the Earthquake-Prone Twin Skyscrapers Renamed “Hollywood Center”
Get ready to fight the renamed Millennium Hollywood twin towers, which the badly tainted developers, Millennium Partners, are rebranding as “Hollywood Center,” without their name on it because they’re now infamous on …
Save Parker Center Initiative for the Homeless Pulls a Big Response
The launch of a Los Angeles ballot initiative to save long-empty Parker Center from demolition and renovate it as the Tom Bradley Center to house the homeless drew a big …
Ballot Initiative to Save Parker Center for Homeless Housing
A growing coalition of civic leaders on Thursday at 10 am will unveil a ballot initiative to save historic Parker Center, the former LAPD headquarters, from the wrecking ball, and …