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    East L.A. corner market gets a heart-smart makeover

    Yash La Casa Market was one of the typical corner stores of East Los Angeles that caters primarily to a Latino clientele. It was stocked heavily with sweet and salty snacks and packaged foods that were crammed into a shop plastered with posters for Budwesier, Tecate and other beers. But, on Saturday, Yash La Casa [...]

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    The East L.A. Classic is not all about football

    By C. J. Salgado Next month, the East L.A. Classic homecoming football game between Garfield and Roosevelt high schools will once again draw tens of thousands of fans. It’s one of the most popular and competitive high school games in the nation. Though most attention is focused on the football players, there is another equally [...]

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    Another reason not to spit on the Gold Line

    The Source, the blog published by the Metro transit agency, today reviewed crime statistics on the system’s rail lines in the wake of recent stabbings, including one on the Gold Line that runs through Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles and Northeast L.A.  This year’s crime figures through August show that major crime on the Gold [...]

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    City agency chugs along to bring free Wi-Fi to Gold Line

    By Mary Allen In a slow-moving project to bring high-speed Wi-Fi to Gold Line train passengers, the board of the  Community Redevelopment Agency   on Thursday is scheduled to inch forward on a $1 million free wireless Internet project intended to boost ridership. The lengthy process, which began as a City of Angels Blue Ribbon [...]

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    Open Discussion: New school year brings new hope for East L.A. schools*

    By C. J. Salgado With the end of summer come those yearly rituals for parents and school kids everywhere, a final hurrah before it’s back to school.  Some are thinking of where to find the best sale on school supplies. Others are already counting the number of days left until next summer. Me, I’m thinking [...]

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    Remembering a Chicano artist named Magú

    His real name was Gilbert Lujan, a pioneering Chicano artist and muralist from East L.A. who was among the first Chicano artists to be exhibited at the L.A. County Museum of Art in a 1974 show titled “Los Four.”  Lujan died last month at age 70 after a long career as an artist, educator and [...]

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    Suspect arrested in East L.A. shooting

    The L.A. County Sheriff  on Thursday arrested a 17-year-old man believed responsible for  the May 25 shooting of an East L.A. gang member, who was left with bullet wounds in the shoulder and back.  Officers apprehended the suspect, who was under surveillance, in front of his home in the 1200 block of S. Ditman Avenue, [...]

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    Storefront Report: Will East L.A. diners develop a taste for urban chic?

    The most recent restaurant news to come out of the Maravilla section of East Los Angeles was last year’s opening of a Denny’s, the chain’s first East. L.A. outlet. Now, a few blocks west of Denny’s on Cesar Chavez Avenue, a decidedly more upscale restaurant and lounge has opened: Cities Restaurant.  Housed in a former [...]

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    Open Discussion: Poorly attended East L.A. meetings signal trouble for cityhood

    Relatively few people attended a pair of meetings this past weekend about the financial challenges that would await a proposed City of East Los Angeles. East L.A. resident C.J. Salgado provides his take on what the poor attendance means for proponents of East L.A. cityhood. By C.J. Salgado This past weekend, two community meetings were [...]

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    Open Discussion: Medi-Cal cuts threaten patient care and community pharmacies

    Joselito Pablo Marco is owner of Marco’s Farmacia in East Los Angeles. His opinion piece on the impact of Medi-Cal cuts on patients and independent pharmacies is part of a nationwide coalition organized by community pharmacies. Consultants with the coalition worked with Marco on the opinion piece. By Joselito Pablo Marco What do budget cuts [...]

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    Former Times journalist remembers a home and haven in East L.A.

    Former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist George Ramos, who grew up in East Los Angeles,  died last week in his home in Morro Bay. He was 63. Ramos worked at the Times for more than 20 years and was part of a team of Times journalists whose series on Southern Californian Latinos won a [...]

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    A cup of café perks up East L.A. political activism

    By C.J. Salgado For 26 years, Ana Maria Arroyo has lived in East L.A near Obregon Park. After twenty of those years, she wanted to make a difference so she founded the “Club Comunitario de Padres,” a group which brings local families together to work on issues that matter to them. For example, she felt [...]

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    Open Discussion: Is the price of East L.A. cityhood worth it?

    A long awaited report released this week showed that a proposed independent City of East L.A. would not be financially feasible unless taxes were raised. East L.A. resident C.J. Salgado ponders what this means for the cityhood effort. By C.J. Salgado As the giant bells of the campanile at the Cathedral of Our Lady of [...]

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    East L.A. residents would have to pay more for cityhood

    A proposed independent city of East Los Angeles would not generate sufficient revenues to cover its costs unless residents and businesses pay higher utility taxes to help close the budget gap, according to a long-awaited  financial analysis released today. The report that will be used to help determine whether cityhood gets put to a vote [...]

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    Virgen de Guadalupe returns to Boyle Heights on the back of a pick up truck

    Earlier this year Self Help Graphics & Art left behind its longtime home in East Los Angeles for a new building in Boyle Heights. Not only did the arts center move its staff and equipment to Boyle Heights, Self Help Graphics also brought along a cherished Virgen de Guadalupe statue that sat in the corner [...]

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    Open Discussion: Will East L.A. be left divided or united after redistricting?

    By C.J. Salgado Every ten years, we are reminded to get a tetanus booster shot, to replace our home smoke alarms, and to return the U.S. Census form. Now, a year later, based on that census, we are in the midst of the redistricting process that also takes place every ten years to re-draw the [...]

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