Heather Kahler
‘Free the nipples’! Topless women at Venice Beach demand shirtless equality
Really. How incredibly selfish. As if we need to encourage more people to sleep in the beach, now it is supposed to include a free strip club? Venice beach is for everyone. YES even CHILDREN. Pick a spot a stretch somewhere maybe. But not willy nilly on the entire beach! Then what about my rights as a mother? My children’s rights to play at a public park? Venice needs far greater priorities than this and so do these women.
Roxanne Brown
Thanks for another great issue. I was especially impressed with the video and the resourcefulness of Deborah LaShever creating the Pocket Potty – waste deposit solution.
Also, Heather Kahler’s photo of traffic at Washington and Lincoln says everything. Let’s get more photos like that (Rose, Abbott Kinney, Venice and Lincoln) – pictures speak a thousand words. The City keeps approving more and more development? Without adequate infrastructure, without water….?
Keep Neighborhoods First
Latest is Wall Street Journal getting into the AirBnB discussion. Citywatch has story.
Roxanne Brown
Mayor Eric Garcetti is raising record amounts of money. Duh – He puts through nearly every development.
Even when LA Planning Commissioners say, “No,” Garcetti reverses it. Examples include the Millennium Towers proposed to tower above the Capital Records building and proposed to be built on an earthquake fault. As seen recently in Koreatown, when Commissioners deemed a development too big, Garcetti put it through. As seen throughout LA, from Brentwood to Hollywood to Venice – the whole City.
http://www.citywatchla.com/neighborhood-politics-city/9040-garcetti-overrules-his-own-appointees-for-koreatown-developer
Many people say, “Money wins, it always wins.” Not true – Mitt Romney – Michael Huffington.
Mayor Garcetti’s reputation has reached Tom Hayden and Norman Lear in Brentwood (celebrities with money, power and big PR machines). Garcetti’s reputation for allowing “property gangsters” to do whatever they want, ignoring the City’s laws, as well as the California Coastal Commission’s act is now reaching from LA to Minneapolis (Target) to New York.
http://www.citywatchla.com/lead-stories-hidden/9322-tom-hayden-and-brentwood-homeowners-get-bulldozed-by-city-hall
Hopefully, Tom Hayden, Norman Lear and company will back a rival candidate.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-84120249/
Mark Ryavec
Supporting the LAPD Homeless Task Force is probably the quickest and most efficient way to help many of the campers on Venice’s streets to get home or into housing.
Might you support the VSA in our efforts to fund bus tickets, meal vouchers and first month’s rent or rehab fees?
I’ve committed to raise $20,000 to fund these activities through the end of the year. Of that amount I’ve raised $2,250. Please read the article below for more details on the work of the HTF.
Please send this appeal on to your neighbors and friends. Many in our community are looking for a way to both help the homeless and reduce the negative effects they have on our neighborhood. The Homeless Task Force (and the Teen Project) are the best I’ve seen in years.
Reta Moser
. La Times had article about San Francisco testing pee-repellent paint.
. City Attorney Mike Feuer establishes Citation Clinic for homeless Best incentive so far for the homeless to get off the street. It will never help the “travellers” that frequent Venice Beach or people who prefer the life style, but for all the others, it offers a way out and provides a lot of hope. Apparently, citations affect people’s ability to get housing or jobs.
. Normally, the world news is not in Update but release of the AP archives can help us all who do research or are just curious. Historians make use of these stories to write books. Now all will have easy access and can make up their own minds.
. Draught tolerant lawns. What happens when the rain comes? Will we get flooded as the desert does? Will the Oxford Basin overflow with the storm water overflow. Will the loose sand from draught tolerant lawns clog the drains?
. Thank you all who have sent ideas for stories. It has really been appreciated. I am not omnipresence so many things I miss. This is your Update.
