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Central Area Weekly Update: May 2, 2009

By blogdowntown Staff — May 06, 2009
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Type of Truck Used in Fashion District Robberies

Each week Captain Blake Chow, Commanding Officer of LAPD's Central Division, sends out an email to the community. Captain Chow has agreed to let blogdowntown bring his emails to our readers.


Central Area Weekly Update: April 25, 2009

By blogdowntown Staff — April 29, 2009
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Each week Captain Blake Chow, Commanding Officer of LAPD's Central Division, sends out an email to the community. Captain Chow has agreed to let blogdowntown bring his emails to our readers.


Central Area Weekly Update: April 21, 2009

By blogdowntown Staff — April 21, 2009
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Each week Captain Blake Chow, Commanding Officer of LAPD's Central Division, sends out an email to the community. Captain Chow has agreed to let blogdowntown bring his emails to our readers.


NPR Series Takes Nuanced Look at Life on Skid Row

By Eric Richardson — April 21, 2009

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This week, NPR's Morning Edition is running a three-part look at life on Skid Row. The series' first two installments have done a better job than most at presenting the complexity of life on Skid Row: it's a neighborhood, it's a place for recovery it's a place for business and, for decades, it's been a place of lawlessness. — Continued Inside...


Central Area Weekly Update: April 13, 2009

By blogdowntown Staff — April 15, 2009
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Each week Captain Blake Chow, Commanding Officer of LAPD's Central Division, sends out an email to the community. Captain Chow has agreed to let blogdowntown bring his emails to our readers.


Roundup: Homeless Dumping Settlement

By Eric Richardson — April 10, 2009
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On Wednesday, the City Attorney's office announced a settlement in its case against College Hospital, which it charged with dumping more than 150 mentally ill individuals on Skid Row over the last two years. The hospital will pay $1.6 million and is forbidden from releasing patients into the area.


Photos: Pillow Fight Day at Pershing Square

By Eric Richardson — April 07, 2009

Pillow Fight Day

|Photo Gallery| WHAT: On Saturday, April 4, several hundred folks of all ages arrived at Pershing Square for the second International Pillow Fight Day.


Photos: Saturday's Immigration March

By Ed Fuentes and Eric Richardson — April 07, 2009
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Immigration Rights March

|Photo Gallery| WHAT: On Saturday, April 4, approximately two thousand marchers took to the streets of Downtown Los Angeles to call for changes in federal immigration policy.


South Park Color

By Ed Fuentes — March 01, 2009
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Blossom

|Photo Gallery| Tucked away on 12th at Hill, blossoms are in full bloom adding a brief spark of color a short portion of the block.


Oops... Poor Pull Out Makes for Traffic Tie-Up

By Eric Richardson — February 06, 2009
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Oops

A semi-truck departing the set for the upcoming film "Sympathy for Delicious" is causing headaches for Downtown drivers this morning. The truck was leaving a small parking lot behind the Palace Theatre in the early morning hours when it manged to get itself stuck across all lanes of Spring street.