Category: Business
As the deadline passes for California to eliminate redevelopment agencies, cities respond to the transition in their own ways.
Bell Gardens establishes city-run agency to take over redevelopment.
Alhambra's main agent to lure business to the city officially dissolved Feb 1, but it doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon.
Supporters and opponents of East LA cityhood are seeing an endpoint in the process during this week's Los Angeles Local Agency Formation Commission meeting.
LA LAFCO report says East L.A. may not be fiscally viable to become a city.
Supreme Court ruling supports phasing out CRA/LA and other development agencies across the state.
Low-income individuals and public housing residents will be able to use business registry to look for jobs.
Lawsuit settlement postpones elimination of the state-funded Adult Day Health Care program (ADHC).
A Latino family from one of the most polluted cities in the nation gets their blood test results, as they seek to explain their chronic illnesses.
A Latino family deals with chronic illness in Maywood, Calif., a city surrounded by 2,000 industrial factories in southeast LA County.
Domino effect of budget cut will impact seniors, caretakers, businesses in Chinatown.
As if losing their jobs and businesses and seeing their home values worth less than what they owed to the banks were not enough, many Asian families have fallen prey to financial predators who have turned their bad dreams into nightmares.
Proponents of East LA becoming a city says Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis does not reflect fiscal viability of area.
California, with the second highest jobless rate in the U.S., saw small but hopeful gains in the past two months.
Los Angeles-area teachers this week were among the groups to publicly endorse the "Occupy LA" protesters who have been camped out at Los Angeles City Hall all month. Immigration rights activists have also joined the growing ranks of the Occupy LA protest movement.
In the wake of federal healthcare reform, a new bilingual website gives California small business owners step-by-step info.
California's Attorney General has proposed a new course of action to address foreclosure in the state, and ethnic media has a key role.
In Silicon Valley, there is a connection between those who innovate the technology and the working poor, who are often times immigrants. Adrian Avila, a young self-made graphic designer, writes about how Steve Jobs was a catalyst to his dreams that once seemed out of reach.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and New America Media launch campaign to help fight frivolous lawsuits against minority businesses.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced yesterday that she's pulling out of a pending 50-state settlement with banks over wrongful foreclosures, because she didn't want to give the banks blanket immunity.
Southern California Edison announces impending rate hikes.
Home Rescue Fair offers mortgage counseling to homeowners facing foreclosures and victims of scams.
Latest community meeting addresses questions on fiscal viability of East L.A. as city.
A roundup of non-profit and community development projects in L.A.
Green Chopsticks dumplings runs a factory in the heart of industrial Alhambra and delivers to Costco's around the country. The "Glutster" takes us to the assembly line.
The South L.A. event is part of the national "For the People" series of job fairs that offer networking and job opportunities.
The 3rd Annual Free Leimert Park Village African Art & Music Festival is coming this weekend with over 30 local groups and organizations to offer free health, education, arts and literacy workshops and resources.
A strike approved by 90 percent of grocery workers is put on hold after federal mediators order "intensive negotiations" between parties.
Mayor Villaraigosa, Dept. of Water and Power officials celebrate completion of solar energy project in central L.A.
A Taiwanese coffee dynasty has imported its roasting tradition to Main Street, Alhambra.
Tom LaBonge wants a serious discussion on annexing Whiteside neighborhood before cityhood efforts continue.
Scammers preying on homeowners in trouble exacerbates housing crisis.
Sears left Alhambra in the 1980s, but they left a tower behind and now it buzzes with life for the County of Los Angeles.
Over fish egg jjigae at an upscale L.A. restaurant, the renowned chef shows off his tattoos, pooh-poohs copycat taco trucks, and waxes poetic on why Kogi's success is not his to own.
LA Beez director profiles the little-known Indonesian community in the Los Angeles area.
In California, an estimated 1.2 million homeowners have lost their homes to foreclosure since 2008. An additional 800,000 homes are expected to receive foreclosure notices by 2012...
The industry is feeling pressure from hard economic times, regulation.
L.A.'s Boyle Heights neighborhood doesn't get much coverage—or respect. But a new bilingual publication edited by youth will help change that.
City of Commerce officials agree to "green zones" policy to attract green businesses and build environmentally healthy communities.
Gonzalez to oversee McDonald's, Disneyland and Nestle accounts, among others.
The insurance company is willing to pay to put its name on a new stadium in Los Angeles — if AEG can get approvals and a pro football team.
Downtown plan offers hope for fans, but no cheer for Coliseum.
Meet three individuals who are striving and succeeding in Los Angeles.
What do Jackson Brown, Richard Riordan and Tyrone Howard have in common? A hope that ICEF Public Schools can find its footing.
Musicians who called the Victorian home have been consulted, according to non-profit in charge of $24.6 million plan.
Leimert Park local reporter Walter Melton interviews Crenshaw Farmers Market visitors about their favorite shops and products.
Chef Mondragon wants local Latinos to see what Ryan Seacrest and Martha Stewart get about prickly pear.
Rivera Express gets immigrants' holiday shipments to families back home. Then the Rivera family hopes dad makes it back for Christmas.
Latino population helps, cuts on restaurants visits help propel food maker to steady, strong sales gains.
County Supervisor suggests annexation by similarly business-friendly neighbor. Maneuvering could be designed to make sure anyone but the City of Angels takes control.






























































