Tag "Inglewood"

A decade of high rents in LA. An environmental review of the Clippers arena in Inglewood comes out. And Alissa, Scott, and Hayes look at the most representative stories of the year, evaluate their wishes from last year, and make some new ones.

The Sheriff’s department opens a very invasive investigation on a movie producer-turned-activist! Weed entrepreneurs are mad about the application process for city licenses! Property owners are using a new mechanism to kick out tenants! LA and the Trump Administration plan their next moves after the Supreme Court declines to review Martin vs. Boise! And the Mayor of Inglewood gets accused of harassment and abusive conduct! Alissa, Scott and Hayes discuss these things.

Alissa, Scott and Hayes get into scooter numbers that came out this week, take the listener to City Hall to hear the council explain why they’re continuing to punish people for being poor, congratulate Inglewood on its new rent control, break down a new proposed vacancy tax, and break some actual good news live on the show.

The Mayor has unveiled his Green New Deal — why do academics and activists say it won’t reduce emissions? Why did Metro announce service cuts the next day? Why did Inglewood’s Mayor try to turn left into oncoming traffic? Why did someone with measles go to The Grove? Why did the aspiring terrorist in Long Beach want to bomb both a protest and a counterprotest? Why didn’t Obama show up for his road naming? Why did a police shooting victim’s mom accuse Torrance cops of character assassination? Scott, Alissa and Hayes answer some of these questions and more!

Alissa, Scott, and Hayes talk about a bunch of big moves in Los Angeles rent control — a new emergency policy in Inglewood, a package of bills going through the state house, and a new ballot measure for 2020 from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Then DANIEL HERNANDEZ, editor of LA Taco, joins to talk about what’s coming up for his site and the USC admissions scandal that luckily nobody has covered until this episode.

Who is Fix the City, the group suing LA over the Expo Line housing plan? Why did an LAPD assistant chief resign suddenly? What kinds of people are leaving LA? Which stadium owners supports which candidates for Inglewood Mayor? And why did a scooter company sue Beverly Hills?

The typhoon-intensive future of LA weather, Sebastian Ridley-Thomas’s old scandal is new again, the first installment of the Sheriff’s Department And 1, Inglewood’s Mayor Butts said something crazy to a protestor and tried to erase it — and LA Times transportation reporter LAURA NELSON joins Scott and Hayes to talk about a new Metro collabo with the TSA and the latest attempts at a scooter ban.

Garcetti goes to Iowa because he wants to be President so bad he would do basically anything, Steve Ballmer and James Dolan are in a very relatable fight over their arenas in Inglewood, and JANET KIM and ALEXA ROMAN from the League of Women Voters talk to us about permanent supportive housing and what that is.