Mayor Karen Bass nominated longtime Pacific Gas and Electric executive Janisse Quiñones to be general manager of the Department of Water and Power. The announcement was made on Friday, April 19.
Both the Forum and the Summit brought together several African American personnel from different franchises and college programs to give them resources to help them secure high-profile positions in the NFL.
StreetsLA has been awarded a grant for $713,804 from the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) to be used in planting 250 shade street trees, as part of the Broadway-Manchester Active Transportation Equity Project, located in Council District 8.
This urgent letter of protest is filed by the Watts Labor Community Action Committee in objection to the ongoing 1845 East 103rd Street Request for Proposals Process (Mafundi RFP). The Mafundi RFP is in fact an invitation for bids to demolish a site of historic and cultural import for the City of Los Angeles, if not the nation: The Mafundi Institute, which includes the Watts Happening Coffee House. Among the many hindrances to achieving best use caused by this RFP is its title. The use of only the property address without reference to the widely recognized building and business names for the RFP is misleading and downplays the importance of the nature of the project by obscuring the historic value of the site.
The Los Angeles City Council today unanimously confirmed Martin Adams as the new general manager and chief engineer of the Department of Water and Power.
Roberts, who received 16 of 30 first-place votes, joins Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda (1983, ’88) as the only managers in club history to win the award since its inception in 1983