Day: May 2, 2013
Streetsblog LA
Learning How to Make a Neighborhood Market a Place for Healthy Food
Last week, hosted in a small campus in Boyle Heights, the Healthy Neighborhood Market Network (HNMN) held a Neighborhood Market Training, an informative workshop program that helps our little corner markets put a focus on healthy foods from local farms for their customers.
May 2, 2013
Tell Us About Your “Commuter Idyll”
Before I became your editor here at Streetsblog Capitol Hill, I was a reporter for WTOP, the DC area’s “most-listened-to” radio station. Its traffic reports “on the 8s” helped feed my ire toward auto-centrism – they wasted one out of every 10 minutes of airtime on an unintelligible litany of route numbers and exits. Meanwhile, I only got 35 seconds for actual news stories.
May 2, 2013
Union Station Master Plan Update, Tonight
Tonight marks another milestone in the Union Station Master Plan project. Metro will unveil four alternatives that will be studied, based on the feedback given during stakeholder outreach and public meetings. Honestly, each of the four look like large improvements over the current design and layout of the station.
May 2, 2013
American Planning Association Thinks SBLA Is The Best. Do You? Donate Today.
I am proud to announce that the American Planning Association, Los Angeles Chapter, has awarded Streetsblog Los Angeles as the best local news source for planning news of any publication attracting between 35,000 and 100,000 monthly readers. In addition, Sahra Sulaiman is the APA-LA's journalist of the year in the same category.
May 2, 2013
The Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, and Why It Barely Registers
In 2010, 4,280 pedestrians were killed in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control, and another 70,000 were injured. That's one death every two hours.
May 2, 2013