Judy Baca says: “It’s the moment in the city history in which it decides what kind of place it is. It’s nothing less than that. If you don’t believe in the common spaces and places where we can put public memory, and you sell us everything we don’t need in every square inch of eye [...]

A Million Women vs. Wal-Mart Read what the New York Times has to say about the Impact Fund’s record-breaking class action Wal-Mart plaintiffs Christine Kwapnoski and Betty Dukes at the Impact Fund’s 17th anniversary event May 13, 2010 “For nine years, Wal-Mart has fought to stave off a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company has [...]

Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times: [W]e can safely predict what [Ben Bernanke] and other officials will say about where we are right now: that the economy is continuing to recover, albeit more slowly than they would like. Unfortunately, that’s not true: this isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters. And policy [...]

Natasha Singer writes in The New York Times: WHY are Americans getting fatter and fatter? The simple explanation is that we eat too much junk food and spend too much time in front of screens — be they television, phone or computer — to burn off all those empty calories. Unfortunately, behavior changes won’t work [...]

“Manzanar National Historic Site preserves the stories and resources of Manzanar for this and future generations. We will facilitate a park experience that weaves the stories of the various occupations of Manzanar faithfully, completely, and accurately. Manzanzar Historic Site will provide leadership for the protection and interpretation of associated sites. From this foundation, the park [...]

Veronica Rocha writes in The Los Angeles Times and Glendale News-Press: Roughly $700,000 has been earmarked for improving the forest roads and trails that were destroyed last year during the Station fire, officials said.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) secured the earmark in the Interior Appropriations bill for restoring the 160,577 acres of scorched landscape that’s in [...]

Ed O’Keefe reports in the Washington Post column Federal Eye: Keeping Tabs on the Government as follows: The Interior Department is implementing new workplace rules for diversity and inclusion amid years of reports that it hasn’t done a good job hiring and promoting minorities. A study conducted by the department’s black employees last year found that [...]

Lauren Osen of KPCC/NPR reports: Vast swatches of L.A. are limited to few grocery options. These are L.A.’s “food deserts” and their lack of nutritional resources is reflected in the health of the people who live in them. L.A.’s location, coupled with its vibrant ethnic communities, makes it a culinary crossroads. Positioned in what is [...]

Louis Sahagun writes in the Los Angeles Times Environmental activist George Wolfe has always believed the best way to know a river is to kayak it. So when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently designated the entire Los Angeles River a “traditional navigable waterway,” he organized an expedition. . . . Normally, the U.S. Army [...]

Denise Grady writes in The New York Times Americans are continuing to get fatter and fatter, with obesity rates reaching 30 percent or more in nine states last year, as opposed to only three states in 2007, health officials reported on Tuesday. The increases mean that 2.4 million more people became obese from 2007 to [...]