The above graphic isn't very relevant to you and me in LA, but it's one of the coolest and most telling graphics you'll see. It's a county map of Appalachian states and how they've voted. Green is Obama and Blue is Clinton. Appalachia itself, cutting across all the states mapped out, is outlined in black. You can see at a glance how Clinton dominates Appalachian counties. And how she'll breeze in West Virginia and Kentucky, the two Appalachian states that haven't voted yet.
My own broken record to the City is that affordable housing doesn't make housing more affordable any more than the lottery makes us all richer. Finally, someone who hits an affordable housing jackpot unwittingly says as much in the Downtown News. "Hong Huang said that when he heard the news, it was like winning the lottery. But rather than a seven-figure payout, he had found a place for his family to call home."
Mr. Hong's name was in the hat along with 500 other applicants. The contractors and the developers have made their money elsewhere.
The article as it reads is a plug for agency-organized affordable housing, which in twenty years hasn't made overall housing more affordable at all. To balance the article, the Downtown News should also interview a couple of the 460 losing applicants, and tell us how their lives are going with regards to housing too.
Yesterday's and today's Times' Local page was hilarious: all happy bloggy smiles on top, a bunch of grizzly murders and student brawls on bottom. They even squeezed Manson into the mashup. You get a feeling that the grownup print eds are fairly done with the happy-face kids who get to cap their page.
Eleven years later, Notorious B.I.G.'s family still wants wrongful death money from someone, and U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper reverses herself and says that a claim against the Feds can proceed. The allegation is that rogue police officers conspired to kill the Notorious one.
Media aren't calling what happened at Locke High School a race riot, but bloggers don't hesitate to. And it took riot police to quell it. Latinos were detained in the school's gym, and blacks in another room.
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My own broken record to the City is that affordable housing doesn't make housing more affordable any more than the lottery makes us all richer. Finally, someone who hits an affordable housing jackpot unwittingly says as much in the Downtown News. "Hong Huang said that when he heard the news, it was like winning the lottery. But rather than a seven-figure payout, he had found a place for his family to call home."
Mr. Hong's name was in the hat along with 500 other applicants. The contractors and the developers have made their money elsewhere.
The article as it reads is a plug for agency-organized affordable housing, which in twenty years hasn't made overall housing more affordable at all. To balance the article, the Downtown News should also interview a couple of the 460 losing applicants, and tell us how their lives are going with regards to housing too.
Yesterday's and today's Times' Local page was hilarious: all happy bloggy smiles on top, a bunch of grizzly murders and student brawls on bottom. They even squeezed Manson into the mashup. You get a feeling that the grownup print eds are fairly done with the happy-face kids who get to cap their page.
Eleven years later, Notorious B.I.G.'s family still wants wrongful death money from someone, and U.S. District Judge Florence -Marie Cooper reverses herself and says that a claim against the Feds can proceed. The allegation is that rogue police officers conspired to kill the Notorious one.
Media aren't calling what happened at Locke High School a race riot, but bloggers don't hesitate to. And it took riot police to quell it. Latinos were detained in the school's gym, and blacks in another room.
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