This post was updated Feb. 9 at 2:20 p.m. Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Koretz introduced a motion Tuesday to prevent more than 100 senior residents from being evicted at the Vintage Westwood Horizons retirement community. Read more...
Photo: The owners of Westwood Horizons retirement community have planned a renovation for the building to become a health center. Residents currently have until November to leave their units. (Wesley Hardin/Daily Bruin)
The Los Angeles City Council is planning to decriminalize and regulate street vending to protect LA’s immigrant population from being deported. The council is trying to shield street vendors from President Donald Trump’s executive order, which would deport immigrants with minor crimes or a perceived history of criminal acts, according to the Los Angeles Times. Read more...
Photo: Freddy Augustin runs a fruit cart at the corner of Westwood Boulevard and Le Conte Avenue. He said he thinks his business would improve if street vending were decriminalized. (Aubrey Yeo/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Los Angeles residents can now start voting in the primary municipal elections. The Los Angeles primary municipal election will be held on March 7 and feature primary elections for mayor, city attorney and city council members. Read more...
Photo: UCLA students can start voting in the Mar. 7 Los Angeles primary municipal elections. The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk mailed out absentee ballots earlier this week. (Stella Huang/Daily Bruin)
Fred Papen’s late grandfather immigrated to Westwood from Iran in the 1970s, hoping to create his own business. “My grandfather had one of the first Persian businesses on Westwood Boulevard,” said Papen, whose family runs Saffron and Rose. Read more...
Photo: Roozbeh Farahanipour, an Iranian immigrant and Westwood restaurant owner, said he thinks the area’s Persian community is split on the issue of President Donald Trump’s travel ban. (Erin Rice/Daily Bruin)
About half of the board members of the Westwood Village Improvement Association resigned or left the association’s board of directors over the past year. The 13-member board leads Westwood’s business improvement district, which collects assessment fees from property owners in Westwood Village to provide services such as street maintenance and events. Read more...
Hundreds of people participated in a round dance, an American Indian tradition, on Weyburn Avenue and Westwood Boulevard on Tuesday night, blocking traffic in protest of the Dakota Access pipeline. Read more...
Photo: People protested the Dakota Access pipeline Tuesday by blocking traffic and participating in a round dance on Weyburn Avenue and Westwood Boulevard. (Jintak Han/Assistant photo editor)
This post was updated on Jan. 25 at 1:10 p.m. Students will soon be able to request to be picked up from various parts of campus through a new mobile app. Read more...
