Lexis-Olivier Ray
Staff Writer at L.A. TACO
I'm an artist + award-winning Investigative Reporter @LATACO | [email protected] | 347-644-0191
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1 week ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
In 2021, the Los Angeles City Council approved an ambitious plan to bring dozens of charging stations and low-cost electric cars to South L.A., a community in desperate need of more affordable and environmentally-friendly transportation options. Four years later, however, not a single station has been built in South Los Angeles. And the program that was expected to bring these electric cars and stations to the region has ended.
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3 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
Facing eviction, Westlake’s oldest gay bar is seeking donations to help with relocation costs, according to a GoFundMe campaign.
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4 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
On Tuesday morning, a giant, provocative billboard display appeared alongside the 101 Freeway in Echo Park announcing that Ozempic, the popular diabetes medication turned viral weight loss drug, is an official sponsor of the 2028 Olympics. Twenty-four hours later, the mysterious billboard was covered up. A spokesperson for LA28—the Los Angeles Olympic planning commission—did not respond to multiple requests for comment sent via email.
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4 weeks ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
As the daughter of a former cop, Alex Smith recalls that whenever someone referred to her father as a police officer when she was growing up, he corrected them and said “No, I’m a peace officer.”“I know what it’s like to kiss my dad goodbye and know that I might not see him,” Smith says.
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1 month ago |
lataco.com | Lexis-Olivier Ray
On a late afternoon in early March, Hector Alaniz’s mother called 911 desperately pleading for help. Her schizophrenic, autistic, and bipolar 23-year-old son was expressing suicidal ideations while he sat in a brown Chevy Malibu on the border of Filipinotown and Silver Lake. A day earlier, Alaniz’s mother had called a county-run 1-800 mental health line asking for assistance, but they told her that they couldn’t do anything because her son was reportedly armed with a BB gun.
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