Year: 2016
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City Heights Liquor License Fight Reveals Blurry Line Between Community Concerns and Business Interests
City Heights residents are never happy about alcohol permits being approved in their neighborhood, but one has sparked a whole new level of pushback. In September, the city said a proposed 7-11 on University Avenue could buy an existing license from a liquor store down the street, and it slapped so many restrictions on the…
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Early Childhood Club Prioritizes Wellness
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Down the Stretch, Key City Council Race Gets Mean
The candidates for City Council District 9 agree on almost everything, including their choice of political insults. The two Latino Democrats in the race, Ricardo Flores and Georgette Gomez, can’t resist comparing each other to Donald Trump. Their race is the last real City Council race on the ballot. The Council is guaranteed to have…
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Food Hub Revitalizes Vacant Lot
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Border Click Connects Two Nations Through Art
On Wednesday, October 5, 2016, a group of young people gathered in City Heights for the first session of The AjA Project’s Border Click project. Funded by the California Arts Council, Border Click was created in partnership with Tijuana artists Rebecca Goldschmidt and Josemar Gonzalez Lizarraga as a multimedia art project to document the complexities and everyday…