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is this what the future of Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils look like after budget cuts?

You have probably heard of edars- everybody deserves a roof- for homeless people. IS this the every neighborhood council deserves an office-encdao-because of the city cutting their budgets. Russell Brown and Russell Chan and other neighborhood council board members from DLANC pushing the portable office?

throwing the baby out with the bath water

I am still getting hit with verbal attacks from so called grass roots organizations in skid row for my support of the larger well funded organizations. All I have to say is these people do not have the wherewithal to help those people such as women and children in skid row with housing, food, clothing and work training and employment. It is important to understand that when one is truly an advocate you advocate responsibly and understand that there are other organizations that provide the services that are needed. Recently one of these community organizers has attacked the Mission. For the Midnight Mission to take me inside their organization is a big risk for them. I have had the nerve to point the finger at Anita Nelson for her negligence and abusive treatment of her tenants at SRO Housing Corporation and as a result was given a 30 day notice as a form of retaliation . The Midnight Mission knows very well that if I would take on my own landlord there isn't any reason I wo...

ladowntownnews refuses to remove me from their subscription list

Apparently the downtown news will not honor the last time I asked them to remove me from their subscription list. You know their weekly updates by e-mail...... So today I clicked the unsubscribe link and a new window opens up and I get to their home page. And one wonders why the Downtown News is not a trusted source of information in the downtown community. They can't even get this right. When I first unsubscribed a while back I was under the impression I would not be receiving anymore information from them. Alas, is this the only way they can make vistor hits at their site....by having you click the unsubscribe buttton, have a window open up saying it doesn't work and, then a new window opens up to their front page? Geez!!!! Stop pissing me off!!! LADOWNTOWNNEWS>>>> I said I don't want to hear from you anymore... can't you honor that??

ST Vibiana or Lesley Taplin

No one knows what made St. Vibiana a martyr and a saint. And there are no written records of the reason she was a martyr and saint. According to a blogger , st vibiana was the saint of the nobodies and everybody... Wasn't that true for Lesley Taplin also? Who was she? She is an enigma. She is nobody and everybody. Her feast is celebrated only by us here in Los Angeles. Because we don’t know the details of her life, in one way it is difficult to ascribe to her particular virtues we can imitate. Yet in another way. this makes it easier for us to identify with her. All we know about her is that she was a martyr. And that is enough. She stands for all of us, the insignificant ones who will never be written about in history books. We follow Jesus as best we can, in ways unknown to others. Yet we too can be like Vibiana, faithful disciples of the Lord. Our lives may not be widely known, but they are known to God, who has called us each by name from before the beginning of time. When we...