Year: 2012

  • Video: A Redevelopment Obituary

    A California Supreme Court decision late last year hammered the final nail into redevelopment’s coffin. Redevelopment workers must pack up their desks by Feb. 1 and hand over remaining approved projects to the city to manage. In City Heights, those projects include $220 million worth of new street lights, sidewalk repairs and new mixed-used developments.…

  • Field Guide: City Heights and the Mayor’s Race, Part II

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX The Candidates: Carl DeMaio Current Job: City Councilman representing District 5 Political Affiliation: Republican Endorsement: Engineering and General Contractors Association Known For: Outspoken…

  • GAO: Leadership Needed To Help Immigrants Integrate

    By Jill Replogle A recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found efforts to integrate immigrants into this country lacked coordination and direction from the federal government. The GAO interviewed leaders promoting citizenship awareness and civic integration across the country. They found a unanimous call for a national immigrant integration strategy, or, at least, federal coordination of integration efforts.…

  • Field Guide: City Heights the Mayor’s Race, Part I

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX The Candidates: Carl DeMaio Current Job: City Councilman representing District 5 Political Affiliation: Republican Endorsement: Engineering and General Contractors Association Known For: Outspoken…

  • The Quality of a Legal Defense: Does it Matter if You’re Rich or Poor, Black or White?

    By Maureen Cavanaugh and Patty Lane Is the quality of legal representation different for someone who is poor and accused of a crime versus someone who can afford their own attorney? Stephen B. Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights says the civil rights movement has had little effect on the justice system. He…