September 29, 2005
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
New York Times
Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights lawyer who fought nearly every important civil rights case for two decades and then became the first black woman to serve as a federal judge, died yesterday at NYU Downtown Hospital in Manhattan. She was 84.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said Isolde [...]

By Kimm Groshong and Shirley Hsu, Staff Writers
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST — The Forest Service on Friday released its new land management plan, designed to guide the four Southern California national forests through the next 10 to 15 years.
Environmental groups immediately attacked it, saying the plan fails to adequately protect those [...]

by Kathryn Maese
Los Angeles Downtown News

By January 2007 the Los Angeles River will be a thing of beauty, teeming with native flora and fauna, booming with the construction of riverfront housing and active with joggers and cyclists utilizing a string of bucolic paths.
Well, at least on paper.
Last Monday city and state leaders announced the start [...]

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast region need to be rebuilt in a sustainable and socially just way. It will cost well over $100 billion in federal funds to rebuild the region. The people who lived in the areas of New Orleans that were still [...]

New York Times
Editorial
September 14, 2005
By JENNY PRICE
Los Angeles
IT’S summer’s end, and in Los Angeles that means we fold up the beach chairs, wash off the boogie boards, and take stock of who won and who lost in the annual Malibu summer beach wars. We’ve had an especially exciting round of battles this year.
In California, all [...]

Los Angeles Times
A new study says that 28% of the state’s children are overweight — a health crisis poised to explode into higher rates of serious illness.
By Carla Rivera
Times Staff Writer
September 9, 2005
In California, renowned for lean bodies and active lifestyles, childhood obesity has reached epidemic levels, with more than 40% of the schoolchildren in [...]

Los Angeles Times
EDITORIAL
September 8, 2005
LIKE A PROUD YET overeager parent, Los Angeles Unified School District Supt. Roy Romer celebrated the first day of school Tuesday by climbing aboard a bus and making a campus visit. Actually, Romer visited four schools, all of them new, in a well-deserved victory tour that marked an important milestone in [...]

Los Angeles Times
By Jean Merl and Erika Hayasaki
Times Staff Writers
September 6, 2005
When the opening bell rings today at South Gate High School, it will, for the first time in nearly a generation, signal the actual start of a new school year.
For years, scores of Los Angeles schools have worked on year-round schedules that relieved overcrowding [...]

On Wednesday August 17th the American Beverage Association announced a voluntary school beverage policy (http://www.ameribev.org/schools/vending_policy.asp). The Strategic Alliance believes that this policy is little more than a publicity stunt and urges each of you to monitor and respond to your local media coverage by writing a letter to the editor, op-ed or calling a local [...]