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.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter talks with attorneys at Veterans Barrington Park during a tour of the West L.A. VA campus in August. A federal appeals panel appeared sympathetic toward a claim that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has failed in its duty to veterans but also raised concerns that a trial judge may have overstepped his authority in a broad order requiring the agency to build more housing on its West Los Angeles campus.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith |David Zahniser
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority chief executive Va Lecia Adams Kellum, pictured in 2023, announced Friday that she will resign from her post. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, the head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, announced her resignation Friday just days after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to strip her agency of more than $300 million and hundreds of workers.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, seen here in 2021, excoriated the city and county over an audit of L.A.’s homelessness programs and said he would consider a proposal to put the programs under a receivership. With the top city and county elected officials sitting in his jury box, the judge lectured for more than an hour, excoriating what he called the Rocky Horror Picture Show of homeless services in Los Angeles.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
Unsheltered homelessness declined for a second consecutive year across most of Los Angeles County last year, homeless officials reported WednesdayBuoyed by a positive trend in the annual homeless count, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released a preview projecting a decline of between 5% and 10% when a full statistical analysis is completed in the coming months.
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1 month ago |
latimes.com | Doug Smith
A view of the Chuckwalla Mountains. Former President Biden established Chuckwalla National Monument, protecting over 600,000 acres of public land in the California desert. The Trump administration appears to be seeking to reverse that action and others involving federal monuments.
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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.
