Willis Edwards: LA Civil Rights Activist Dies at 66 | LA Times Edwards headed the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP and was a driving force behind its entertainment industry Image Awards. High Speed Rail Funds to Speed Improvements to Local Transit | KPCC Governor Brown will soon sign legislation that approves $4.7 billion in state bonds to launch a high-speed rail system in California. About $1 billion of the money won’t go to high-speed rail, but will instead fix up rail and subway systems in Southern California. That money was key to winning votes in the legislature for the bonds. Section of LA River Through the Valley Opens to Tours | LA Times A 1.5-mile stretch of the waterway through the Sepulveda Basin, which for years operated as a flood-control channel, is expected to become a summer tourist draw. A Greener City Hall Opens this Week | Downtown News The city is set to reopen the park after a renovation that hinged on an effort to incorporate more native plants and drought-tolerant landscaping. The work was estimated at $390,000, though the final cost has not yet been released. San Fernando Valley Commuters Flock to New Expo Line | LA Daily News North Hollywood resident Dairenn Lombard sat near the window, headed to a job as a computer network engineer near Culver City. A few seats away was Sherman Oaks resident Carlos Mora, who works as an academic review counselor at USC. And farther down the car, Andre Fields was heading to teach kids at a summer camp in Westchester after leaving his home in Chatsworth earlier in the morning.Turns out, San Fernando Valley commuters are flocking to the new Expo Line.
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Willis Edwards: LA Civil Rights Activist Dies at 66 | LA Times

Edwards headed the Beverly Hills-Hollywood branch of the NAACP and was a driving force behind its entertainment industry Image Awards.

High Speed Rail Funds to Speed Improvements to Local Transit | KPCC

Governor Brown will soon sign legislation that approves $4.7 billion in state bonds to launch a high-speed rail system in California. About $1 billion of the money won’t go to high-speed rail, but will instead fix up rail and subway systems in Southern California. That money was key to winning votes in the legislature for the bonds.

Section of LA River Through the Valley Opens to Tours | LA Times

A 1.5-mile stretch of the waterway through the Sepulveda Basin, which for years operated as a flood-control channel, is expected to become a summer tourist draw.

A Greener City Hall Opens this Week | Downtown News

The city is set to reopen the park after a renovation that hinged on an effort to incorporate more native plants and drought-tolerant landscaping. The work was estimated at $390,000, though the final cost has not yet been released.

San Fernando Valley Commuters Flock to New Expo Line | LA Daily News

North Hollywood resident Dairenn Lombard sat near the window, headed to a job as a computer network engineer near Culver City. A few seats away was Sherman Oaks resident Carlos Mora, who works as an academic review counselor at USC. And farther down the car, Andre Fields was heading to teach kids at a summer camp in Westchester after leaving his home in Chatsworth earlier in the morning.Turns out, San Fernando Valley commuters are flocking to the new Expo Line.


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