Monthly Archive: December, 2005

Buses around the nation keep a seat open to mark 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks decision not to surrender her seat

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

November 30, 2005
Buses to Keep a Seat Open in a Tribute to Rosa Parks
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will leave on the headlights of about 6,000 buses tomorrow to mark the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s decision not to surrender her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, [...]

Audit of City Parks, Securing Open Space, Millard Canyon, Saving San Onofre State Beach

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick recently released the first of three audits of the Department of Recreation and Parks. Program fees for the same recreational services vary among facilities throughout Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Daily News called the system of park fees “discriminatory, capricious and just plain sleazy.” The audit [...]