So where do I live now?

The LA Time has a fun little project going on right now- in an attempt to create a standard name for every district in LA county, they have set up a suggested zoning/naming and asking for requests for improvements. Currently, I am located in Exposition Park... if my suggestions go through, I will be living somewhere else entirely. While I may still have some qualms about the exact division lines, I am quite anxious for the paper to complete its goal.


I've gotten a bit frustrated n the past, when friends are incapable of telling me where a restaurant is. "It's in, I don't know... Silverlake?" Los Angeles is too sprawling and too varied to be considered one unit; it needs to be broken up. Lines must be drawn and labels must be applied. That is just LA.

Who knows if the plan will work or if the names will stick, but getting directions will sure be a lot easier if it does.

Voting results!

Last night's election brought in a few unexpected results, but for the most part things came out as one would expect. Mayor Villagrosa was reelected, but by a fairly narrow margin when one considers the size of his budget and the fact that he had no serious contenders to defend his title against. In this case, the results might speak volumes more than the final outcome.

The two measure mentioned in this article, E and B, are of a little more interest to me. Measure E would have increased the city council's ability to use money to provide incentives attracting new businesses to Los Angeles. While bringing in more jobs is certainly important, I don't think raising taxes at the expense of current businesses is the correct way to do it.

Measure B was designed to increase funding for increasing the infrastructure for solar power in Los Angeles. The LA Times credits the loss to the fact that the bill would have favored work by utility as opposed to by local businesses.