Slideshow: Program helps low-income residents go solar
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear/read her accompanying radio report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
Tagged: Los Angeles
The ‘parent trigger’ sparks struggle between LA public schools and charter system
An elementary school in Los Angeles is now at the center of a power struggle between the city’s school district and parents who say they want more influence in the quality of their children’s...
Threat prompts shutdowns of nearly 1100 schools across Los Angeles
Classes were canceled across the Los Angeles Unified School District today due to a threat that officials now say was likely a hoax. FSRN’s Lena Nozizwe reports. Download Audio “Abundance of caution” was the...
Los Angeles County residents take air pollution monitoring into their own hands
As climate change and measures to mitigate it are on the world agenda this week, House Republicans passed a pair of resolutions Tuesday to block the Clean Power Plan from taking effect. Senate Republicans...
Charter school opponents protest museum opening over founder’s expansion plans
With almost half a million students, California had the largest charter school enrollment in the country. And no city in the US has more publicly funded, but independently operated schools than Los Angeles. Plans...
California labor activists celebrate wage theft bill and minimum wage hike in Los Angeles County
California labor activists believe they’ve moved two steps forward with this week’s 3-2 vote by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year...
Slideshow: Removal of “bulky items” from LA streets could pit police against homeless people
All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear/read her accompanying report. Click on any thumbnail image to launch slideshow. All photos by Lena Nozizwe. Hear/read her accompanying report. Click any thumbnail image to launch slideshow.
LA makes it easier to confiscate the belongings of the city’s growing homeless population
The homeless population of Los Angeles, California has swelled by 12 percent to 26,000 over the past two years. That’s according to data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Limited space in shelters...
AIDS remains taboo theme for art world gatekeepers, decades after disease diagnosis
Thirty-four years ago this month, the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published a piece about five cases in Los Angeles, California of a type of mysterious infection. The disease later...
Slideshow: Pride on parade in Los Angeles, 45 years and counting
By the end of this month, hundreds of thousands of LGBT men, women, boys and girls will have been a part of Pride parades, from Israel to the Ukraine to the US. The very...
