BAck in business
Well it looks like I am back in business.



let's see what happens

I HAVE MOVED
WEll I have moved.

Downtown Central City East Blogger


http://centralcitye.blogspot.com/


it sems I may have excedded bandwidth , and it looks like angel fire has made some changes to its layout.

I can't seem to post pictures. SO I have decided to go to another site and see what happens. I may have to pay for my blogging.

Rumors are SRO HOusing Corporation Refuses to Do Anything
WEll here is an update on the onging problem with the toilet that is in front of the SOuthern Hotel.

The Neighborhood Prosecutor Called me this MOrning to tell me that she couldn't make it due toa press conferewnce downtown at parker center.


One tennant who is going to college missed school so he could be here at 11 for the meeting with here over the pea spot.

She said that our senior lead officer couldn't also make it due to the pres conference.

Anyway , rumors are SRO still refuses to do anything about the proble, we are having.

DRAGONS IN THE STREETS and Marines in the desert


Again I was taking pictures of clouds in the neighborhood. THis time I was approacehd by an older gentleman telling me i should not take pictures. WHy these folks want to threaten me I do not know......selling drugs ? Gosh I wish my neighborhood would get cleaned up.

I decided to go to china town , It was the Chinese New Year , Year of the Rooster ,I had forgotten I could ahve taken the Redline and then the goldline which has its first stop at China Town Station. I wonder why I would forget such athing but I did. SO I hopped on teh goldine and wooshed my way to china town.

I got to China Town Station

and walked down the stairs to the street below. I ran into a boooth that had been set up by the China TOwn BId. With information on walking around Chuina Town and maps. I took some picturea and went looking for the parade on Broadway. There were floats and dragons and all kinds of wonderful things going on.





There were floats and dragons and all kinds of wonderful things going on.




I had a pretty good time . I ran into some guys from brooks college who were taking pictures of the event like I was , I am pretty sure there shots cam eout better than mine. Of course I notified them about the town crier competition.

Then it was time to eat , of course I always go somewhere and get orange chicken and while I was looking for my china town spot , look who I ran into.

NOne other than . CAn YOu guess It?


BEranrd PArks.

SO I got my orange chicken and then walked to cach the 45 on broadway , which brought me to 5th street and Broadway and I walked to the Los Angeles THeatre Center. The LAtino theatre Company The LAtino theatre Company was putting on a show a draft , about a MArine returning from Iraq and havng to live with his experience. It was moving and personally for me it brought back lots of memories. I think they did da good job protraying the traumas of war on young people.
I got some pics of the actors after the show. And of course my good friend Jose Luis VAalenzuela.

WEll we are gpoing to negotiate for a COnvention Center Hotel
Well the first item on the agenda after all of the commendatory resolutions

was the 1/2 cent sales tax. Got a picture of Chief of Police sitting their waitng for his opportunity to speak.
He of course begged as much as he could for those of us in Los Angeles to get m,ore police officers. But to no avail teh City Council voted not to put that sales tax on the ballot. It was the best City Council Meeting ever since I have been there. I was even crying when a young man who lost his fatehr to a robbery accused Jack Weiis and Antonio Villaraigosa of not looking out for the best interests of Los ANgeles . I could tell there was a lot of people who were there , just to make certain council people look bad and of course the mayor. But when this young man who was sincere in what he was saying spoke we all knew he was not there out of any self interest or personal gain , it was heartfelt.

while all this was going on ai Caught these two

getting in a few bites , since we wetn way past noon.

I was in tears, "I Have never seen the City Council so torn ." That was Dennis ZIne and he was right.

anyway we the moved on to the big thing I was there for. The Permission for the city to begin negitiations for a convention center hotel. Tim Leiwekie was there. Along with the SOuth pArk mover s and Shakers. Of course I am the only unpaid lobbyist there. But I know we need a convention center hotel. It passed unanimously.

SO let's see if they can get LOs ANgeles a good deal.

A DAy At City Hall
Tomkorrow is going to be a day at city hall.

The Convention Center HOtel comes up for its first reading at city hall in Council Chambers. I have to go.

We need a Convention center hotel. I Still remember in my mind all of those people who came for that Choir directors conference last weekend. Boy Oh boy! Thye sure were spending money all over LOs Angeles. WE need tons more convetnions with tons more people. I like seeing Downtown Los angeles Crowded with tourists , spending money. ANyway it looks like a fight or I am not sure we will see tomorrow. I haven't' even seen the memoradnum of understanding at all. So tomorrow I will become well informed.

Went to Mamma's Today

Well a very close friend of mine cam eover today.

He is a good guy. He had to move to longbeach because he is a diabetic and he was having problems kepeping from getting infections here in Central City East. BAsically they just had him in the wrong hotel.

So what did we do? We went to Mama's Hot Tamales Cafe.

Well we were going to go to the Promised land , but I said let's do something different.

Mama's HOt Tamales Cafe is in Macarthur PArk , not too far from Downtown Los ANgeles. You can take the redline subway to alvarado / mcarthur park staion and it takes you right there , to 7th street.

Anyway we had some wonderful tamales. I love to choose different types.

If you haven'tbeen you gotta go.

I am Endorsing Mayor JAMES HAHN

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Don Garza

AM ENdorsing Mayor James Hahn for re election.

As a result of so much politicizing on this weblog I am Changing the Name to Downtown Central City East BLogger

That way I can rant and rave all I want to.

I will be using another site as the LA TOWN CRIER blog.

SO I have to start fresh on that one

WHo won the debate last night?
The Winner is :

ALARCON!!!!

WHy because he knows where the power is.

The only bad point was that the other candidates have districts that are counting on making housing available to all people and all incomes all over teh city. They are despeartely dense areas.

Including the debate over inclusionary zoning.

The folks who were there last night were from the west side which fear their general plans may come under seige.

But more power to the neighborhood Councils.Oh Yea!!!!

Nothing still being doen about the pea spot
I just snapped a photo of the pea spot.

Looks like the lnadlord still refuses to do anything about it.

In still don't think they have any idea of what they are doing.

Or maybe they just don't care.

AS you can see I am having luck keeping the swap meet far towards teh san pedro side of the fence