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Something in the switch from December into January, with its earliest inklings of eventual spring, can ignite a powerful urge to create change in a certain kind of person. Over the years,
Carl Coan detached recently from the lead executive role at Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center. He made elegant use of the occasion heralding his
There was a time when the term “planned community” caused Americans to salivate. It promised a place designed to meet every human need: from perfect schools and plentiful play spaces for the kids
Los Angeles nonprofits trying to move the needle toward stronger, more caring communities face monumental obstacles. The appeal of staying nose to the grindstone and laser-focusing on just the
Among the slew of ways to think about communities, the one that shapes us the most and that we can influence the least, is our community of origin.
We have no control, for better or worse,
Democracy works in part because of its vast and varied quilt of systems. Yes, they are sometimes slow and unwieldy. And yes, affecting needed change can seem
The bud
stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers,
I recently polled a number of people about an important question. The group included a couple of lawyers, community activists, a retired elected official, several business people, a retired
We Angelenos may not see in our lifetimes a harder slap upside our civic heads than the searing report just released by the Kantor Commission’s Los Angeles 2020 report, “A Time for Truth.”
“All of us in this room share two things in common,” said Denny Zane at Community Partners’ December 10 holiday gathering, “love and indignation.” It’s both of those seemingly conflicting feelings
No big fan of sweeping, abstract terms like civic engagement so much in vogue these days, I stand guilty of using that expression and others equally vague as a kind of lazy shorthand. Anna Núñez,