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    Obama is hiring – send your resume to Eric Garcetti

    The presidential campaign is over but Echo Park councilman Eric Garcetti, an early and active supporter of Barack Obama, is still volunteering time for the President-Elect. Garcetti is now reviewing many of the local job applicants interested in working for an Obama Administration. “We have a lot of capable, talented people in Los Angeles and [...]

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    Why Eastside renters should worry about home foreclosures *

    Eastside renters are being caught in the fallout from the real estate bust. This morning, councilman Eric Garcetti is scheduled to hold a press conference outside an Echo Park triplex whose owner had lost the property to the bank. The renters were pressured by the lender, Countrywide, to move out of their apartments and take [...]

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    Will there be a Sunset Junction festival next year?

    The city’s summer festival season seems to climax in late August with Sunset Junction, the sprawling street and music fair that draws thousands to Silver Lake. But next summer the throngs of tipsy hipsters and leather daddies that roam Sunset Junction might have to find another place to celebrate. Complaints have grown over the years [...]

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    News & Notes: A real estate slump hits Dodgertown and can a bike riding chef save an Echo Park cafe?

    Consider yourself lucky if you were not drving the 2 Freeway in Eagle Rock yesterday morning. York Boulevard Meet Eric Garcetti, density hawk. LA Weekly via LAist Home prices fall in Dodgertown adjacent. Curbed LA Former Eagle Rock Montessori school teacher arrested on molestation charges. Crime Scene A bike riding chef rides in to replace [...]

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    Blame Sister Aimee if you can't find parking in Echo Park

    Echo Park evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson had a thing about cars. In 1918, Sister Aimee drove from New York to California in a newly purchased, seven-seat Oldsmobile that became known as the “Gospel Car.” While Sister Aimee loved cars, she did not bother to think about parking when she built the 5,000 seat Angelus Temple, [...]

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    Councilman Eric Garcetti is always changing

    Echo Park councilman Eric Garcetti is not only good at tailoring his message to the audience at hand but his wardrobe as well. On Saturday morning, Garcetti wore a short-sleeve, white polo shirt when he spoke to a group of school-age boys and girls gathered for a neighborhood clean up at the north end of [...]

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    Echo Park's mid-century loving councilman

    Eric Garcetti gets plenty of attention as President of the Los Angeles City Council. Now, his Elysian Heights home is also in the spotlight. The mid-century house that he expanded and remodeled with partner Amy Wakeland is the subject of a web photo spread on green architecture. It should come as no surprise that the [...]

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