| LAX Businesses Not Happy, Elephant Hill Under Review
Last week, it appeared that Los Angeles City Council, hotel unions, and L.A.s business community had hammered out a compromise regarding the recently-enacted living wage ordinance governing the hotels on Century Boulevard near LAX, colloquially known as the Century Corridor. Business leaders had gathered enough signatures to put a measure on the ballot in May to rescind the law, as had happened in Santa Monica with a similar living wage law a few years back. After long negotiations, an agreement was announced that the matter would be kept off the ballot in exchange for swapping out the original law with an amended version sweetened by concessions to that business community. Smiling faces all around. As a scheduled council vote nears on Friday, however, the deal is threatening to blow up. Labor representatives pronounced themselves pleased with the results.
Price sets off on new adventure as senior
Not so much about golf, but about historical adventures, especially those about explorers and conquerors of new worlds. That's why he received so many books as presents when he celebrated his 50th birthday Jan. 28 at his home in Hobe Sound.
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Residents pledge to challenge Churchill
WE WILL fight the developers to the hilt! An angry group of Hampshire residents are determined to keep the developers away. Churchill Retirement Living has bought up four family houses in Barton on Sea, which it plans to flatten and replace with flats. Furious residents have already defeated three different schemes put forward by Churchill, but now that the company has confirmed it has lodged an appeal against the latest planning permission refusal, their battle has begun again. The company wants to bulldoze the detached houses in Sea Road and build 25 sheltered retirement flats. Three of the houses - one a former guest house - have stood empty since October. The fourth is occupied by renting tenants. Last week, the windows were boarded up, renewing neighbours' worries Churchill is ploughing ahead with its plans.
Program Demonstrates Possibility of Permanent Housing for the Homeless
The man with the sparkling eyes and shoulder-length salt and pepper hair who laughs and jokes with a visitor and shares his passion for photography and writing could have spent much of his life homeless, living in backyards in what he describes as a tube, or shut away in a mental institution. Instead, John Endicott works every day at focusing on reality, practices his art, moves freely about the community and has friends at the Russell Street House where he's lived in a supportive community of people with mental illness since its inception in 2001. The 17-person residence and four-person annex is a Berkeley Food and Housing Project endeavor that has been successful in permanently housing people with mental illnesses. The project, which costs about $460,000 annually, is funded by the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD), residents' fees and city funds.
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