Monthly Archive: March, 2006

Competition to Select Designer for the Los Angeles State Historic Park

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

The search is about to begin for the team that will design Los Angeles State Historic Park (formerly known as “The Cornfield”).
The goal of the competition is to select an innovative and talented multidisciplinary team to combine landscape and urban design, art, architecture and historical/ cultural interpretation to design a concept for Los Angeles’ newest, [...]

Burke Confirms the Rumors: She Plans to Retire. One of L.A.’s first black politicians, the supervisor is ready to move on.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Los Angeles Times
By Jim Newton
Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2006
Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is coming to the end of a long political run, a once-interrupted 40-year stretch during which she has won 10 elections in the face of changing demographics and crises that have swallowed many of her peers. Barring something unexpected, Burke [...]