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Slow to Clean Up its Own Mess, Exide Demands Boyle Heights Residents Hurry Up and Submit Personal Injury Claims by Oct. 31st
In mid-September, they won court approval to pay out $16 million in bonuses to ensure that they would be able to carry out their restructuring plan. The settlement agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency also required that they continue to comply with any cleanup work consent decrees, cleanup work orders, and contamination discovery and cleanup during their restructuring process.
October 17, 2013
Hit-and-Run Victims and Surviving Family Members Face Drunk Driver at Her Arraignment
This past Wednesday, friends and family of Andy Garcia, killed in a brutal hit-and-run last month, came face to face with the woman that had upended their lives.
October 11, 2013
Why Are There CicLAvias I Never Walk Along but Large and Melodious Thoughts Descend upon Me?*
"Wow! That's a lot of bike people!" exclaimed a security guard at a plaza in Little Tokyo.
October 7, 2013
City Asks For Your Input on How to Spend Federal Dollars
The federal government might be shut down right now, but that doesn't mean that we have to stop thinking about how to spend the federal funds that will (eventually, hopefully) come our way.
October 3, 2013
Eastside Access Project Takes Another Step Forward, Experiences Growing Pains
As I walked along 1st St. last week, I came across a gentleman standing outside a storefront, staring at the square of dirt where a huge ficus tree had once stood.
September 27, 2013
Hollenbeck Middle School Breaks Ground on a New Garden
Earlier this week, parents and students broke ground on a new garden at Hollenbeck Middle School in Boyle Heights.
September 26, 2013
There’s One Week Left to Tell LA/2B about Your Aspirations for Your Community
Planners working on prioritizing the programs that they will implement as part of the Mobility Element need your help.
September 23, 2013
Get Your Complaints Filed! The Neighborhood Repair Blitz is Coming Your Way
Is your street pothole-plagued?
September 19, 2013
Hit-and-Run in Boyle Heights Forever Changes Lives in an Instant
She must have been traveling really fast, they speculated.
September 18, 2013
Roads We Walk: Jovenes Inc and Art Center College of Design
"The road I walk every day,
September 13, 2013