Ben & Jerry’s will be in Los Angeles until June 10, scooping out fair trade fun throughout the Los Angeles region. Peanut butter Clusterfluff and coffee Bonnaroo Buzz yesterday were the stars.
One of LA Mayor’s Antonio Villaraigosa’s first initiatives was his 1,000,000 Tree Campaign for a greener Los Angeles. The project was ambitious. By having residents take an online test and then picking up trees at various locations for their yards, homeowners would plant these trees, providing shade and helping to heal LA’s dirty air. Other trees were given away at city events and street fairs. The program, sadly, was a failure. And a visit to Griffith Park taught me why.
Imagine that you are a school teacher or a non-profit, and you rarely have the budget for school supplies or office equipment. Suppose you own a business that either is relocating, or you have excess inventory for which you see no other choice but disposal. Finally, you are the administrator in City Hall [...]
Last night I attended the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council meeting. The evening featured Gregory Randall, the City of LA’s lone wildlife specialist . . . in a city of 465 square miles crammed with four million people. Because of the recent events in Griffith Park, where eight coyotes were shot in the aftermath of two [...]