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Days of Dialogue About Trayvon: We Have Unfinished Business
Last Saturday morning, a diverse group of 150 people, including police officers, poets, clergy, coaches, students and the County Sheriff, sat down to share their perspectives on the shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin and a Florida jury’s exoneration of his killer, George Zimmerman. The event, Days of Dialogue: Trayvon Martin: Unfinished Business, was sponsored by County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Ridley-Thomas, the Empowerment Congress and several nonprofit organizations.
No Tunnel Yet. Metro Board Approves Funding, Builder for Crenshaw Line
After more than 30 years of discussion and planning, organizing and advocating, full funding for the design and construction of the Crenshaw-to-LAX light rail line was approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board this afternoon. The vote, at last, gives the South Los Angeles corridor...
Hammering to Begin on MLK Hospital and Ridley-Thomas Is Smiling
The County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to award a $165 million contract for the Inpatient Tower Project at the Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center, meaning contractor Hensel Phelps can begin construction of the new 120-bed hospital.
