Mark Ridley-Thomas hosted the Empowerment Congress Summit, an annual event designed to improve Los Angeles communities by establishing a “broad-based and diverse constituency made up of community residents, representatives of the Neighborhood Councils and block clubs, social and human service organizations, academic and religious institutions, business interests and individual citizens,” according to the Empowerment Congress website. The objective of the summit “is to support empowering residents and community members with the tools that they need to make an impact in their individual communities.” The Congress is “a unique model for how communities and their elected representatives interact with one another to hold each other mutually accountable.”
Alex Padilla’s taking the oath of office as U.S. senator ends the longest regional domination modern California political life has seen, columnist Tom Elias says.
Costs Rise as Cargo Ships Backlogged at LA Ports
The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are facing one of the worst backlogs they’ve ever seen, as dozens of cargo ships wait at anchor in San Pedro Bay. Together, they handle as much as 40 percent of the nation’s imports.
A combination of trade wars, tariffs, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a shift in spending habits of Americans have all played a part in creating the logjam, says Phillip Sanfield, a spokesperson for the Port of Los Angeles.
“This has been brewing for months,” Sanfield told The Epoch Times.
What do we have in Southern California mass vaccination or vaccination theater?
I ask because on Wednesday, as Times readers who identified themselves as older than 65 or otherwise vulnerable to COVID-19 continued to send us letters describing their fear and frustration over the botched vaccine rollout, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti retweeted a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Dodger Stadium parking lot being jabbed in his famously swole upper arm with a dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Included in the mayor’s tweet were instructions for healthcare workers and Los Angeles County residents over 65 to make vaccine appointments the very instructions that readers have tried to follow and found unhelpful.
Covid-19 vaccinations will not only help stop the virus from spreading, they will also hamper the coronavirus' ability to mutate into new variants, Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Thursday.