The struggle to preserve public access to the beach is spreading across the nation from California to Connecticut and from Florida to the Great Lakes. California’s beaches belong to all the people. The wealthy beachfront enclave of Malibu and media mogul David Geffen nevertheless filed suit to cut off the people’s right to reach [...]

By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 27, 2005; C01
MALIBU, Calif., May 26 — The public was not exactly invited. But now it is at least allowed. After decades of resistance and a three-year legal battle, the pretty white gates shuttering a short pathway from the Pacific Coast Highway to the super-exclusive sands of Carbon [...]

By Melissa Milios
Daily Breeze
Nonprofit youth groups that play ball and hold meetings after hours on fields and in facilities owned by the Los Angeles Unified School District may have to start paying usage fees under a plan that opponents worry will force some community groups to reduce services.
Providing free facilities to groups such as the [...]

On July 1, 2005, the Los Angeles Unified School District will open North Hollywood Elementary School #3. This new elementary school is part of a massive campaign by LAUSD to modernize, and build new schools to ease over crowding. Unfortunately, next to the new school is an abandoned and dangerous police station. [...]

We ask you to support the First Amendment rights of Baldwin Park residents and artist Judy Baca to preserve the Danzas Indigenas public art monument against bigoted attacks by the anti-immigrant hate group Save Our State — Sink Our State would be more appropriate. The hate group has charged that the twelve-year old monument [...]

By David Pierson
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 18, 2005
In Chinatown’s Central Plaza, elderly men sit on benches sipping milk tea, old women nosily shuffle mah-jongg tiles and cooks clack metal spatulas against their woks, filling the air with the pungent aroma of ginger and garlic.
Overlooking this scene is a white, three-story building guarded by a [...]

By Cameron W. Barr, Washington Post
May 17, 2005
The geometry of recreation is shifting across the Washington suburbs,
driven in part by the sporting preferences of a burgeoning immigrant
population. As the rectangles of soccer gradually overtake baseball’s
diamonds, parks officials are even finding room for the large, grassy ovals of cricket.
Also fading away is the simplicity of [...]

By David Pierson and Patricia Ward Biederman
Times Staff Writers
Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2005
For 12 years, public artwork near the Baldwin Park Metrolink station never caused a stir.
But when a Ventura-based group that opposes illegal immigration got wind of what was inscribed on the artwork this month, they organized a protest that garnered attention when it [...]

On May 18, 2005, at 10:30 a.m., the Los Angeles Department of City Planning will hold a hearing on the proposal to build a new development along Canyonback Ridge. The developer wants to privatize the area including Canyonback Trail. If the City approves, the public will be forced to beg access from residents [...]

Updated May 11, 2005
Preamble: a Vision for the City
In the face of the myriad of challenges confronting Los Angeles are a great many opportunities to create healthy communities. Our vision of a healthy community is one that has enough affordable homes for our growing workforce, as well as homeless people; viable alternatives to driving alone, [...]