Los Angeles State Historic Park Meeting

 California State Parks and Hargreaves Associates design team
for a Community Meeting about the current phase of work for

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Parks Forward meeting on urban park access

By Damien Newton |
PERE invites you to an upcoming Parks Forward public meeting on March 10th in Los Angeles to improve urban access to parks and workforce opportunities within the state parks for underrepresented communities. Made up of experts and thought-leaders (including PERE’s Professor Manuel Pastor), Parks Forward is an independent commission charged with conducting a wholesale assessment of California’s state parks system. It […]

Culver City: Public Meeting on Fracking

By Sahra Sulaiman |
June 12 and 13: Learn more about State Regulations and Fracking. Does the word “fracking” give you the heebie jeebies? It should, given that there no regulation in place that protects us from any potential harmful effects of the practice. The more I learned about the practice in the Baldwin Hills (see here and here), the more disturbed […]

Long Beach: Public Meeting on Fracking

By Sahra Sulaiman |
June 12 and 13: Learn more about State Regulations and Fracking. Does the word “fracking” give you the heebie jeebies? It should, given that there no regulation in place that protects us from any potential harmful effects of the practice. The more I learned about the practice in the Baldwin Hills (see here and here), the more disturbed […]

Festival of Lights Meeting Tonight

By Damien Newton |
Speaking of Tom LaBonge…earlier in the month Streetsblog reported on the efforts to overturn the city’s ban on bicycles during the Festival of Lights in Griffith Park. Tonight, activists will have another opportunity to urge the DWP to follow the state law prohibiting banning of bicycles from a public space at a meeting about the […]

Metro Considers Raising "Senior Discount" Age to 65

By Damien Newton |
At yesterday’s meeting of Metro’s Finance and Budget Subcommittee staff raised the specter of changing the age needed to receive the "Senior Discount" from 62 to 65. All residents currently receiving the discount would be grandfathered in. In response to a question from the audience, Board Member John Fasana clarified that such a change would […]