CITY CONTROLLER RELEASES AUDITS OF HOW LOS ANGELES HAS USED FEDERAL STIMULUS MONEY $111 Million in ARRA Funds Has Only Created 55 Jobs So Far (Los Angeles) – Continuing her efforts to ensure that taxpayer money is spent efficiently and effectively, City Controller Wendy Greuel released two audits today of how the City of Los [...]

The L.A. River reaches the sea at Long Beach. Learn more about the Los Angeles River.

National Call to Action to Head off Looming Freshwater Crisis Charting New Waters: A Call to Action to Address U.S. Freshwater Challenges Economy, public health, social justice, and ecosystems threatened without new direction in freshwater management by public and private sectors, diverse coalition cautions WASHINGTON – The City Project joined a diverse coalition of businesses, [...]

The United States Environmental Protection Agency has declared the Los Angeles River “traditional navigable waters.” Declaring the L.A. River “navigable” is a huge victory for the River — and for diverse people along the River. Very importantly for the Environmental Justice community and the people along the River, declaring the River navigable makes clear that the [...]

Using Clean Water Act to Stop Sewer Odors in Baldwin Hills and South Central Los Angeles   The City Project working with the community in South Central Los Angeles and Baldwin Hills is ensuring compliance with the Clean Water Act to eliminate persistent and offensive sewer odors that have long plagued residents in the historic [...]

Diverse allies have recommended that Secretary Arne Duncan and the United States Department of Education support physical education, student health, and equal justice in public schools across the nation.  Physical education is a civil rights issue as well as an education issue, because of disparities in health and access to places for physical activity in [...]

Learn more about the L.A. Greek Festival . . . Learn more about Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom. The Byzantine-Latino Quarter [is] a corner of the Pico-Union district where Greeks, Mexicans and Central Americans have found vibrant synergy. Once known as “Greek Town” for its concentration of Greek residents and businesses, community groups designated the [...]

A diverse group of education, public health, and civil rights allies working with The City Project oppose the proposal by the California Budget Conference Committee to suspend physical fitness testing and reporting in California public schools.  Schools are required by law to administer and report the results of annual physical fitness tests to 5th, 7th, and [...]

Learn more about the Los Angeles River and Monuments: Diversity, Democracy and Freedom.

Some one posted this picture from the Indian Village in Lincoln Heights at the entrance to the Ascot Hills Park. According to the web site “The History of Lincoln Heights”: The Indian Village. “Mr. Antonio Apache has gathered typical groups of Indians from the various American tribes, who live in their primitive habitations, wear their [...]