“The City Came into Being To Preserve Life, It Came for the Good Life” – Aristotle, from the walls of the Tom Bradley Room atop City Hall, quoted by Mayor Garcetti in his opening remarks at the PBI DWP…
Want Real Reform at DWP? Make DWP a Part of the City! “If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects.” — Former Supreme Court Justice Lewis…
CW February 8, 2016 – BUDGET DOYENNE – Surely you’ve seen the Mayor’s #SlowJam video announcing the slowdown expected as a result of the closure of the 101 this past weekend? Masterfully executed with original music by talented students of…
Published in City Watch February 1, 2016 Madeleine Albright once said, “I’m not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten what high school was…
REMEMBERING LOUIE (1961-2016) – On January 17, after a long fight with diabetes and its devastation, Luis (“Louie”) Manuel Moreno suffered a fatal heart attack, leaving family and friends throughout Boyle Heights and the communities of East Los Angeles…
CityWatch – Vol 14 Issue 7 – Pub: Jan 22, 2016 A TRANSPORTATION WIN-WIN – Control of Ontario Airport is set to return to local hands this summer – finally! This is significant and it is good. It’s good for the…
“… my good friends the Allens … one of the best of their many excellent dicta is that “to play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk.” ~ H. S. Scrivener, 1903 It’s hard to wrap my head around…
Three years ago, on Thursday, June 24, 2010, I dropped my brother Matthew off at work and never saw him again. My mother tells me that I followed him from room to room yelling “Mine Big Brother!!!” before I…
“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.” — Rainer Maria Rilke…