Los Angeles Times By Sara Lin Times Staff Writer November 29, 2005 The California Coastal Commission plans to order the owners of five Newport Beach homes to replace the sand dunes they are accused of illegally bulldozing in the spring to improve their ocean views, officials said Monday. At issue is a 4-foot-high, 150-foot-long wall [...]

Tina Terrell must meet assortment of demands By J. Harry Jones San Diego Union Tribut Staff Writer November 25, 2005 Tina Terrell is supervisor of the Cleveland National Forest. Much of it is in San Diego County. The Cleveland National Forest, as national forests go, is about as close as you can get to an [...]

By Eloise Klein Healy Los Angeles Times November 27, 2005 The River: Books One, Two & Three Lewis MacAdams Blue Press: unpaged, $15 paper ONE of the common raps against Los Angeles is that it is a city without history, in which the citizenry cares about little except leaving the past behind. Poet Lewis MacAdams [...]

By Noam N. Levey Los Angeles Times November 27, 2005 On a dusty, hot summer afternoon in South Los Angeles, 13-year-old Joseph Robinson and 9-year-old Franklin Flores are in a favorite place — huddled in front of a computer terminal playing RuneScape together. For the boys, one black and one Latino, the new Ascot branch [...]

By: JIM DWYER New York Times October 6, 2005 To write the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln scrounged four sheets of paper. Unaided by speechwriters or spelling checkers, he wrote his own sentences and (literally) cut and pasted blocks of text. Then he gave away the document. Yesterday those four pages of secular scripture — morally [...]

Famed architect Paul Revere Williams was barred by restrictive covenants from living in the very homes he designed. As a black man in 1936 Los Angeles, Paul Revere Williams was not allowed to live in the best parts of the city. Instead Williams lived in Lafayette Square, one of the few upper-middle-class neighborhoods opened to [...]

The public won an important public access issue when the Court in Save the Altadena Trails, et. al. v. Michael Cichy re-established the public’s right to travel over the portion of the historic El Prieto Fire Road that runs across private property to visit the Owen Brown grave site. The Court stated that it was [...]

By Rone Tempest Los Angeles Times November 19, 2005 TAHOE CITY, Calif. — The fight over a proposed toll road through San Onofre State Beach Park moved north Friday as the State Park and Recreation Commission urged Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to block the controversial 16-mile project. At a Tahoe City meeting chaired by Commissioner and [...]

Pasadena Star News Editoral We have been in support of Los Angeles County versus the La Vina Homeowners Association. We believe the association should live up to an original agreement allowing public access to Millard Canyon and hiking trails across 108 acres of open space owned by the development. The case will now go to [...]

The new book Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity, by Setha Low, Dana Taplin, & Suzanne Scheld (2005), recognizes that large parks, beaches, and heritage spaces are important to bring together diverse groups where they can encounter each other in an open and inviting atmosphere. Cultural diversity expresses the idea that, at the [...]