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Behind-the-wheel driving test for seniors: ‘Don’t you dare advocate for this!’ or ‘There are folks that should not be driving’
After months of complaints, the DMV has dumped the knowledge test and online training course for most drivers 70 and older who are renewing their licenses.
A woman’s mother and grandmother struggle to reclaim her, but it’s as if fentanyl has taken her prisoner, and they can’t convince her to make a run for it.
MacArthur Park is under siege from gangs and addicts. Is it too much to ask the city to fix the broken streetlights that line the borders of the public space?
Some say the Democrats are to blame for California’s problems, so what are the Republicans doing? Shrinking their tent
?Cierra Langer’s? Es difícil imaginar el parque MacArthur y la ciudad sin uno de sus puntos más emblemáticos. Sería un proyecto que te dejaría sin aliento.
Your sidewalk needs to be fixed, so what do you do? Leave town? Get yourself a sturdy burro? Or try to work with the city of Los Angeles? Good luck on all fronts
Mayor Karen Bass read that Norm Langer was thinking of closing his deli, so she stopped by for lunch and vowed to address neighborhood problems
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Langer’s, closing? It’s hard to imagine MacArthur Park, and the city, without one of its most iconic anchors. It would be a hole-in-your-soul development.
An audit of L.A.’s scandalous response to broken sidewalks put the service call backlog at 50,000, but there is no long-range plan in place to make those fixes
