Category: News

  • Kids Make the Next Move, and the Next, and the Next

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Emily Alpert Published April 3, 2011 on Ten-year-old Elizabeth Padilla has been the new girl over and over, at school after school around City Heights. First there was Central Elementary for kindergarten. Then Carver. Then Euclid. Then the landlord upped the rent and her mother went to find another apartment.…

  • City Heights’ Express Bus to Stay on Interstate

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published March 29, 2011 on City Heights residents who want to ride an express bus along Interstate 15 will be able to pick it up in the freeway’s center lanes after all. Buses will stop at platforms on the freeway, which passengers will be able to access using…

  • Rallying For Redevelopment Dollars

    By Katie Orr Published February 22, 2011 on All Councilman Todd Gloria needed was a mega-phone and a letter sweater at a news conference about redevelopment on Tuesday. Gloria stood at a podium in the shadow of an affordable housing project and rallied those who gathered before him. “Is City Heights better off today because…

  • Pulling Themselves, and Each other, Out of Poverty

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published February 17, 2011 on When Hamun Yussuf was a girl, a vicious civil war broke out in Somalia, her home. Many of the men in her tribe left to fight. A lot never returned. Yussuf’s family fled to Kenya, where her mother worked at a shop while…

  • Somalis Adjust to U.S. Life, But Integration and Jobs Still Problems

    By Amita Sharma Published September 28, 2010 on Photo Courtesy of Amina Farrah   It was 2 o’clock in the morning back in 1988. Amina Farah was about to go from a middle-class mother with a house and a job at the Central Bank of Somalia to refugee. Civil war had just erupted. The dark…