Finding Relief
Brand new and very smart writer (and USC graduate student), Matt Mundy has written a strong piece on General Relief in LA Citybeat. It’s very much worth reading. Here are the first few ‘graphs to get...
View ArticleMy Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part IV
My computer is having a psychotic break and I’m on my son’s laptop so I’ll make this brief. But I wanted to bring you up to date on Richard. For the short term anyway, things are better. A few very...
View ArticleMy Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless…… Part V
NOTE: This is part of a continuing series on long-time WitnessLA commenter, Richard LoCicero, who, due to a series of circumstances (and unbeknownst to his online friends and sparring partners) has for...
View ArticleMy Name is Richard. And I’m Homeless. Part VI
As the homeless capital of America, Los Angeles County has 73,000 homeless men and women; 10,000 without a home are children. According to the latest figures on services in LA County, emergency and...
View ArticleMotivating Foster Care Kids to College
Every year around 5,000 kids are emancipated from California’s foster care system. Sixty-five percent of those kids who “age out” of foster care do so with nowhere to live, and 51 percent are...
View ArticleArnold “Line Item Vetos” State Parks Funding – UPDATED
Using the poorly named “line item veto,” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger managed, with the stroke of a pen, to make a series of unilateral budget cuts that bypassed legislative approval. They include an...
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