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Last week, 826LA, a non profit tutoring and writing service for youth, released a collection of stories written by 10th grade Roosevelt High School students to answer the question "What needs to change to generate more justice and equity in Boyle Heights?" In "Like A Shadow Blocking My Light," the students' stories deal with the problems teenagers face in growing up in the neighborhood - one student writes about his father abandoning the family, another about the lack of available healthy food sources and still another about a young immigrant's struggles to adapt in an English-speaking world.

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A lot is being made of the relationship between Streetsblog and Metro (aka Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority or MTA) after our post dismantling a Beverly Hills Courier "report" published yesterday.  The Beverly Hills Courier referred to L.A. Streetsblog as a "captive blog" of Metro and is now suggesting that everything we say is direct from the mouth of the MTA.  It's a level of confusion on the Courier's part that you might expect from commenters at Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website.

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(With apologies to Tanya Snyder...)

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Every Thursday morning at 11:00 A.M. , City Maven Radio Hour is broadcast  LATalkRadio.com.  The Maven, aka journalist Alice M. Walton, regularly interviews some of the top insiders of local politics.  Today, we are proud that one of her featured guests is L.A. Streetsblog editor Damien Newton.  The show starts at 11:00, but Newton won't be featured until 11:30.  If you miss the broadcast you can find it archived by visiting The City Maven Radio Hour homepage.

Today is the day Los Angeles Streetsblog has been waiting for since our first launch in March of 2008.  Today, we’re expanding.  Everyone give a warm welcome to our two newest writers, Kris Fortin and Sahra Sulaiman.