
Doug Smith
Senior Writer at Los Angeles Times
Rode a horse up Mt. Whitney, 1964; rode a D4, Wasco, 1966; rode an R69 to NY, 1969; rode an Osprey to Baghdad, 2008; ride a Sportster to LA, every day: L2RR2L.
Articles
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3 days ago |
latimes.com | David Zahniser |Doug Smith
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass won’t be called as a witness in a multi-day federal court hearing that could determine whether the city’s homelessness programs are placed in receivership. Matthew Umhofer, an attorney for the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, told U.S. District Judge David O. Carter on Tuesday that he and his legal team were withdrawing subpoenas issued in recent weeks to Bass and City Councilmembers Monica Rodriguez and Traci Park.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith |David Zahniser
Two fired employees who received a combined $800,000 in legal settlements from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority had accused the agency’s chief executive of hiring cronies for top jobs, attempting to destroy records and being “extremely inebriated” at an out-of-state conference, according to records released Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
President Trump’s executive order calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs to house thousands of homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus by the end of his term promises the relief veterans have been seeking in federal court for more than a decade.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
After a long journey of personal recovery and years volunteering as a substance abuse peer counselor, Thea Golden launched her own recovery home. She and her husband, Tyler, bought a house in the Jefferson Park neighborhood west of USC, turned an illegally converted garage into a permitted ADU, formed a nonprofit and put out word through their unofficial social services network that they had two beds for women seeking a sober environment. Her tiny program, LA Recovery Connect, opened in 2021.
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4 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith |Michael Wilner
President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a National Warrior Independence Center for homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus. The order set a goal of housing up to 6,000 homeless veterans at the center and ordered federal agencies to “ensure that funds that may have been spent on housing or other services for illegal aliens are redirected to construct, establish, and maintain” it.
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Thanks for the note Daniel. Abode and Mercy were listed as owners. Mayor's office said LAFH was providing services. As servicer providers weren't mentioned in other cases, I left it out.