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MacArthur Park needs someone to say, ‘not on my watch.’ It’s unacceptable that severely incapacitated people stagger about like ghosts, their bodies twisted, their eyes vacant.
Various public and nonprofit teams are targeting drug use in MacArthur Park, but it’s not enough, yet, to solve the public health crisis.
How can police deal with gangs, organized retail theft, addiction and untreated mental illness in MacArthur Park? The Rampart Division captain says they don’t have ‘the right tools.’
Griffth Park is a hiker’s paradise crossed by popular, twisty trails. But some of the regulars are furious about a couple of new fences that block shortcuts, calling them an ‘obscenity.’
For volunteers at a heavenly stretch of seashore between Carmel-by-the-Sea and Big Sur, the job is to grow the next generation of conservationists — and ‘to give back a little bit.’
Fraud is a year-round, multibillion-dollar enterprise, but the holiday season offers a wide-open window of opportunity as scammers fish with email, phone calls, texts, fliers and regular mail
What’s happened to MacArthur Park is heartbreaking. A 2003 effort emphasizing community collaboration may offer a blueprint for a permanent fix in a neighborhood burdened by gang activity and a fentanyl crisis.
After Trump’s election win, the columnist writes, his first thought was to leave the country: ‘But then I realized I already have. I live in California.’
Older Americans could well determine the outcome between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
In one sense, the Yoshinoya Japanese Kitchen across the street from MacArthur Park couldn’t be in a better location.
