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Board of Supervisors vote to loosen Airbnb’s grip on unincorporated Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve an ordinance restricting the short-term vacation rental market throughout unincorporated LA County. The decision comes after pushback against the industry, which some experts consider a threat to Eastside neighborhoods like East LA or City Terrace. While not outright banning...
Local nonprofits demonstrate how to measure pollution in the neighborhood
On a Saturday morning at Lou Costello Park, several generations of Angelenos and Boyle Heights residents tinkered with strange scientific contraptions. Thermometers with infrared lasers, high-tech thermal imaging cameras plugged directly into their phones, air quality sensors clipped to bags and noise-level monitoring smartphone apps. Climate Resolve, a Los Angeles...
Puro Love: A community mourns Proyecto Pastoral co-founder and Boyle Heights icon Rosa Maria Campos
The pews inside the church at 171 S Gless Street were full, as people crowded near the front and side entrances of the building. Community members, family, and friends of the late Rosa Maria Campos, 73, all wanted to pay their respects to the neighborhood leader Friday evening. Campos, who...
East Los Angeles College announces landmark partnership with Salvadoran university
Educators gathered at East Los Angeles College on Friday to witness the signing of a memorandum that creates a partnership between ELAC and Universidad de Oriente (UNIVO), a Salvadoran university based in the city of San Miguel. Pedro Arieta Vega, the rector of UNIVO, was at the event that marked...
Judge in cell tower lawsuit reaches final ruling
A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled last week that two county code changes, approved by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors in 2023, violated state environmental laws regarding the construction of telecommunication towers. The ruling comes a year after the supervisors voted to amend changes to county code that...
Get out and about on the Eastside
Hola Boyle Heights! Your community reporter, Alex Medina, is here to share some happenings in and around the neighborhood to get you out and about!. Ysabel Jurado is a name you’ve probably seen a lot in the news lately if you’ve been following city elections. The 34-year-old tenant rights attorney received the most votes in the race for Council District 14, and is set to go up against incumbent Kevin de León in November. That would mean a lot of firsts for CD14, as Jurado would be the first woman to represent the district. She would also be the first person of Filipino descent on the L.A. City Council, and the first non-Latino representing the Eastside in nearly four decades. Our reporter Ricky Rodas sat down with her to chat, and you can check out that story here on our website.
Newest Dodger gets mural treatment in Little Tokyo
At the foot of the eastern wall of the Miyako Hotel in Little Tokyo, hundreds of Dodger fans gathered this morning to celebrate the unveiling of the newest mural by Boyle Heights-based artist Robert Vargas. Lowriders proudly displayed Dodger blue paint jobs, families dressed their newborns in hometown baseball merchandise,...
Lorena Pharmacy was robbed early Tuesday Morning – thought to be part of serial burglaries across the City
Lorena Pharmacy, located on the corner of Whittier Boulevard and Lorena Street, was burglarized early March 19. According to a spokesperson from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), two male and two female suspects broke in through the pharmacy’s windows at around 4:30 am. It is unclear how much...
Tiny home village brings much-needed housing to Boyle Heights
The Boyle Heights Tiny Home Village, tucked away in the 800 block of North Mission Road, is the latest of many efforts on the Eastside that aim to address the pressing issue of homelessness in Council District 14. The project, funded using around $4.8 million of the district’s dictionary funds,...
Illustrative inspiration
Originally published in SMC In Focus newsletter on Feb 13, 2024. For someone whose parents were told by a doctor that she might never walk, Ileana Hernandez has come a long way. Hernandez, who serves as web services coordinator at Santa Monica College, was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC),...
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