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L.A. County spends more than $233,000 a year to hold each youth in juvenile lockup
Los Angeles County's juvenile detention system was designed in an era when youth crime was on the rise. The number of juvenile arrests has fallen dramatically in recent years. Some say the system has not kept up with this shift, and now it's costing taxpayers money. A county audit found that the average cost of incarcerating a youth has soared to $233,600 a year, significantly higher than other comparable jurisdictions.
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L.A. is seizing tiny homes from the homeless
Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people living on freeway overpasses in South Los Angeles.
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LA schools grow more inclusive, but at what cost?
The Los Angeles school system has come far in the last ten years, especially in terms of inclusivity. In 2003, only 54 percent of LA’s disabled students were taught alongside their nondisabled peers; today, it’s more than 90 percent. But some parents worry that general education schools won’t provide the specialized attention their children require. John Tulenko of Education Week reports.
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Who’s Looking Out for L.A.’s Endangered Children?
On the road with the emergency response team of the Department of Children and Family Services. By Miles Corwin. (Feb. 22)
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Will the Los Angeles River Become a Playground for the Rich?
The revitalization of LA’s neglected riverfront has gone from social-justice crusade to money-soaked land grab. By Richard Kreitner. (Mar. 10)
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Vintage Pictures of Old Los Angeles Restaurants with Wacky Shapes
We're used to seeing swanky rooftop restaurants and bars, taco stands and outdoor patios decorated with lights in Los Angeles. But back in the day we had restaurants and food stands that took architecture to the next level, with wacky buildings shaped as actual items like tamales, hot dogs and planes.
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The Myth and Truth Behind LA’s ‘Devil Winds’
How the supposedly sinister Santa Ana winds can change us and how we’re changing them. By Adrian Glick Kudler.
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Outrage after big labor crafts law paying their members less than non-union workers
When Los Angeles City Council members voted two years ago to give hotel workers a raise, Bill Martinez was the type of worker they said they wanted to help. Martinez, a 53-year-old bellhop… By Peter Jamison. (Apr. 9)
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LA Ordered to Stop Taking Homeless People’s Stuff
A new injunction limits the city's ability to seize and destroy the property of Skid Row residents. By Elijah Chiland.
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Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
The last train on the last line of greater Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric streetcar network made its last run on 9 April 1961. You can see the final days of this once-robust public transport system for yourself in the short film Ride the Last of the Big Red Cars. This footage of the remaining “red cars” (as the Pacific Electric’s fleet was commonly known) strikes an elegiac tone, especially to modern Angelenos. They have little more than history books and the rose-tinted memories of old-timers...
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Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
When LA was stripped of its beloved streetcar in the 1960s, the city was quickly thrust into a traffic-clogged world of private cars and diesel buses. But with the involvement of automobile and oil companies, was this the work of a conspiracy?
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L.A. will convert motel units to 500 apartments for homeless vets
The city of Los Angeles has approved a deal for nonprofit and private developers to convert “nuisance" motels into 500 permanent supportive apartments for homeless veterans. Officials called it a major step forward toward developing large-scale housing for hundreds of homeless veterans. Advocates say about 2,700 homeless veterans remain in the county, despite an intensive drive by local and federal officials..
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L.A. County Is Proposing To Tax Millionaires In Order To End Homelessness
In order to pay for its pricey plan-of-attack to eradicate homelessness in Los Angeles County, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is audaciously attempting to place a 'millionaire's tax' on the November ballot for the voters' consideration. The proposed tax would take a half-percent of personal incomes exceeding $1 million annually countywide, and devote the revenue towards funding the county government's 47-point plan for ending homelessness in Los Angeles. According to a poll conducted for the county government, a whopping 76 percent of L.A. County residents favor the proposed tax on...
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Jurors vote for death sentence for 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer
Diana Ware didn’t think she’d live to see her stepdaughter’s killer brought to justice. In the decades since 23-year-old Barbara Ware was shot and killed in 1987, Ware had gotten used to waiting. Waiting for phone calls from detectives, staring at the phone as the years went by until, eventually, it stopped ringing. She tried to stay hopeful but felt crushed when her husband died without knowing who took his daughter’s life.
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The Road Less Traveled? Not Since Waze Came To Los Angeles
The traffic app Waze reroutes drivers from busy, clogged streets to areas with less traffic. But that means some once-quiet neighborhoods are beginning to see traffic jams.
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All LAPD patrol officers will wear body cameras by 2018
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday unanimously approved a $69.6 million plan to place body worn cameras on 7,000 Los Angeles patrol officers by the end of 2017. Originally, L.A. Mayor Garcetti had promised to have cameras on LAPD officers by the end of the year to improve accountability by both police and citizens, and provide evidence in criminal trials. City council members, however, balked at the price tag and approval was delayed six months.
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How to Be Canadian on the Fourth of July
How I learned to embrace Independence Day, America, and bunting. So much bunting. By Stephanie Hallett.
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Feds to require buyers of luxury properties in L.A. County to reveal their true identities
Los Angeles has long attracted wealthy individuals willing to spend millions of dollars for a sprawling estate in the chaparral hills above the city or along its fabled coast. But in addition to movie stars, financial executives and foreign billionaires, Los Angeles real estate has also attracted criminals seeking to launder ill-gotten gains by purchasing its tony mega-mansions. Amid heightened concern that such individuals are using shell companies to hide stolen funds, the federal government is cracking down.
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Silicon Is Just Sand
Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles tech world. By Stephen Elliott.
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Soylent CEO’s shipping container home is a ‘middle finger’ to LA, locals say
Rob Rhinehart lacks permits for his ‘experiment in sustainable living’ and has ignored a removal order, which may lead to criminal charges, authorities say. The windows are smashed, the walls are covered in graffiti, and the solar panels gone. By Rory Carroll.
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