Subscribe
Mar Vista Voice Dispatch - May 28, 2024
Marqueece Harris-Dawson is named next Los Angeles City Council president (5/28/2024 from LA Daily News)
Slow progress for mixed-use project at 1808 Lincoln Boulevard in Venice (5/23/2024 from UrbanizeLA)
Jury rules against Black Lives Matter co-founder in LAPD ‘swatting’ lawsuit (5/23/2024 from The LA Times)
Lessons from the Two Attacks on the UCLA Gaza Encampment (5/23/2024 from LA Progressive)
The Five Queens: what the LA County Supervisors actually supervise (5/23/2024 from LA Public Press)
Newsom promised 1,200 tiny homes for homeless Californians. A year later, none have opened (5/23/2024 from CalMatters)
Court rejects attempt to block supportive and affordable housing in Venice (5/23/2024 from Westside Voice)
Homeless Services Providers Facing Months Long Delays Awaiting Reimbursements from LAHSA (5/22/2024 from Westside Voice)
Assemblymember Zbur & Mayor Bass Bill To House Angelenos Living In RVs Advances To Senate (5/22/2024 from Public).
Click HERE for critique of State Assembly Bill 2525 (Zbur)
Judge Hears Closing Statements in Barrington Plaza Trial (5/21/2024 from Westside Voice)
City Repaved Coronado Street Without Measure HLA-Required Bikeway (5/21/2024 from StreetsBlog LA)
SaMo approves bicycle anti-harassment ordinance (5/17/2024 from BikinginLA)
Mayor Karen Bass and union leaders slam November ‘taxpayer protection measure’ (5/17/2024 from LA Daily News)
Police shootings of mentally ill expose gaps in SoCal programs to assist first-responders (5/17/2024 from LA Daily News)
New plan for Lincoln Boulevard at Ballona Creek includes bike lanes and sidewalks (5/16/2024 from Urbanize LA)
Metro Committee Approves $225M Cost Overrun for Westside Subway Section 1 Construction (5/16/2024 from StreetsBlogLA)
Black Lives Matter co-founder takes LAPD to trial for ‘swatting’ prank response (5/15/2024 from The LA Times)
Sweeping Decision: As the U.S. Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, there’s work to do to address homelessness, regardless of outcome (5/15/2024 from Street Sheet)
Hollywood Community Housing plans trio of Santa Monica developments (5/15/2024 from Urbanize LA)
United Auto Workers Local 4811 votes to authorize strike (5/15/2024 from The Daily Bruin)
Trial over mass evictions at Barrington Plaza could hinge on meaning of “permanent” (5/15/2024 from The LA Times)
Editorial: L.A. City Council just proved it can’t be trusted to fix itself (5/15/2024 from The LA Times Editorial Board)
Student campus unions fight to protect political speech amid administrative crackdowns on Gaza protests (5/15/2024 from LA Public Press)
Here are California's affordable housing income limits for 2024 (5/14/2024 from Urbanize LA)
Affordable housing planned at 12120 W. Wagner Street in Del Rey (5/14/2024 from Urbanize LA)
The Venice Heritage Museum tackles a complicated subject — the beach town’s reinventions (5/10/2024 from The LA Times)
UC faculty call for resignation of UCLA chancellor over protest handling (5/9/2024 from LA Daily News)
Metro Debuts New Smart Bike Lockers at Nine Stations (5/9/2024 from StreetsBlogLA)
14,400 gallons of untreated sewage spills, forcing beach closure in Marina del Rey, Playa del Rey (5/9/2024 from LA Daily News)
Two nights of violence at UCLA’s Solidarity Encampment (5/8/2024 from LA Public Press)
Despite scandals, Curren Price and Kevin de León regain seats on L.A. council committees (5/8/2024 from The LA Times)
State officials visit PCH and tout safety fixes underway on deadly stretch (5/8/2024 from LA Daily News)
Who owns that apartment? California agency says it will take millions to find out (5/8/2024 from the OC Register)
LA City Council takes step to plug ‘orphaned’ oil wells (5/8/2024 from LA Daily News)
UCLA shifts classes back online amid renewed pro-Palestinian protests, arrests, outcry (5/7/2024 from LA Daily News)
Financing gap could derail West L.A. Civic Center redevelopment (5/7/2024 from UrbanizeLA)
‘I thought I was going to die’: UCLA encampment protesters recall April 30 attack (5/7/2024 from the Daily Bruin)
BLM, others call for resignation of LA police commission leader (5/7/2024 from Spectrum News 1)
70 years after Brown v. Board of Education, new research shows rise in school segregation (5/06/2024 from Stanford Graduate School of Education)
Santa Monica College to Launch Homeless Service Work Certificate, First in California (5/06/2024 from SMC News)
Protests: UCLA faculty, Jewish groups, echo students, allege leaders disregarded protesters’ safety (5/3/2024 from LA Daily News)
Los Angeles weighs slowing “affordable” development in certain neighborhoods (5/2/2024 from LA Public Press)
L.A. City Council motion calls for curbing ED1 projects in historic districts (5/1/2024 from UrbanizeLA)
UCLA cancels classes after counterprotesters violently attack pro-Palestinian camp (5/1/2024 from The LA Times)
USC genocide studies professor sees Gaza campus protest arrests as a dangerous step toward authoritarianism (5/1/2024 from LA Public Press)
New Cedars-Sinai Marina Del Rey hospital reaches its peak (5/1/2024 from UrbanizeLA)
Is it illegal to be homeless in America? SCOTUS will decide (5/1/2024 from Western Regional Advocacy Project)
Santa Monica offers ebike rebates, while California’s ebike voucher program goes nearly 3 years with no progress (5/1/2024 from BikinginLA)