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Your 2 Wheeled Solution To Getting Around L.A. Who’s Riding a STRiDA? Los Angeles’ darling blogger of all thing cozy, Jeana Sohn. LAPD’s Finest Bike Cop (He guards the Mayor on bike rides! Los Angeles City Council Candidate Stephen Box. Are you riding a STRiDA? Want to test ride one here in Los Angeles? Visit Folding Bike Los Angeles. Look Who's Riding a STRiDA! Have a question, want to test ride or ready to buy? Visit Folding Bike Los Angeles. Unlike other folding bikes, STRiDA. A clean, quiet belt.
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SoapBoxLA: Neighborhood Councils: Death by Meeting!
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Neighborhood Councils: Death by Meeting! June 29, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 52. RETHINKING LA - Neighborhood Councils face many obstacles as they set out to “promote more citizen participation and make government more responsive to local needs” and the most formidable is the threat of “Death by Meeting! If Neighborhood Councils are committed to “promoting more citizen participation in government,” it will start with bett...Tiffany K...
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SoapBoxLA: LA Municipal Election Field Flooded with Neighborhood Council Veterans
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Tuesday, July 03, 2012. LA Municipal Election Field Flooded with Neighborhood Council Veterans. July 3, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 53. RETHINKING LA - Jim Newton, Editor at Large of the LA Times, contends that Neighborhood Councils “have yet to prove either as revolutionary as their backers hoped or as obstructionist as their opponents feared.”. Newton’s editorial offers his perspective as a journalist. Cary Brazeman of Mid City West Community Council and Ro...
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SoapBoxLA: Want Better Press? Be Better Press
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Wednesday, July 11, 2012. July 10, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 55. NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILS - Jim Newton’s recent editorial in the LA Times paid tribute to a decade of Neighborhood Council struggle and stirred two responses from those embroiled in LA’s civic engagement battle. There are a couple of kinds of complaints that are common when it comes to coverage from the local press, “How come we can’t get any press? 8221; and “You call that good coverage? I would ...
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SoapBoxLA: Trader Joe's Celebrates "Bike to Work" Week
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Thursday, May 20, 2010. Trader Joe's Celebrates "Bike to Work" Week. The TWEET that ROARED! Call Trader Joe's HQ 626-599-3700, ask 4 customer service re. Bike Parking at Hollywd/Vine. Then tell them 2 get bike racks 4 grand opening! Call Trader Joes HQ 626-599-3700, ask 4 customer svc re Bike Parking at H'wood/Vine. Tell them 2 get bike racks. I did this and the girl (Tiffany? Sounded a little perturbed. She said "yeah, all your friends are calli...
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SoapBoxLA: Experts Split on Whether the Brown Act will Kill LA’s Neighborhood Councils
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Wednesday, June 27, 2012. Experts Split on Whether the Brown Act will Kill LA’s Neighborhood Councils. June 26, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 51. RETHINIKING LA - The mere suggestion that it might be time to revisit California’s open-meeting law with a Sunshine Ordinance draws two kinds of responses, best summed up as “It’s about time that common sense prevailed! 8221; and “Have you joined the regulatory race to the bottom? As for Terry Francke’s suggesti...
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SoapBoxLA: What NCs Learn from City Council: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Illegal
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Saturday, July 14, 2012. What NCs Learn from City Council: Some Good, Some Bad, Some Illegal. July 13, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 56. There are a few problems with this scenario. There’s no greater insult to the public than to run the meetings with a stopwatch as a tool for controlling the public but as the same time forgive tardiness from the members. It’s an unacceptable double-standard. The third problem is that the City Council considers the “noise...
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SoapBoxLA: Are Neighborhood Councils Ready for Facebook?
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Wednesday, June 20, 2012. Are Neighborhood Councils Ready for Facebook? June 19, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 49. The irony of this Facebook debate is that it takes place in a city that is led by Social Media fans, including Mayor @Trutanich, City Attorney @Trutanich and LA's Facebook pioneer, former City Council President @Garcetti who was one of the first to max out his Facebook page with friends. The idea of a Neighborhood Council using Facebook to tell the...
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SoapBoxLA: Can LA’s Neighborhood Councils Keep Up?
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ACCESS AND MOBILITY ISSUES FROM TWO URBAN ADVENTURERS. Saturday, June 16, 2012. Can LA’s Neighborhood Councils Keep Up? June 15, 2012. Vol 10 Issue 48. 8221; in a process that allows inaction to count as an affirmative vote. Through it all, Neighborhood Councils are expected to monitor the delivery of city services and keep the public engaged in the process, a Sisyphean responsibility that challenges the capacity of the volunteer-driven Neighborhood Council system. 8221;) well in advance of the agendized...
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