By Jon Wolff, Nov 2016 The two October Venice meetings that were scheduled to discuss Councilmember Mike Bonin’s plan to create a storage facility in the Westminster Senior Center for unhoused people […]
The Homelessness Meetings Continue
By Jon Wolff Your L.A. City Councilmember Mike Bonin held a community meeting in the Westminster Avenue Elementary School auditorium on September 8, 2016 to present his accomplishments and propose his solutions […]
Why Property Owners Should Vote NO to the Venice Beach Business Improvement District
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are, by design, controlled by a very small group of commercial property owners, excluding the voice of most paying into the BID and completely excluding residential property owners, […]
What are Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Why Should Venice Community Members Be Concerned?
What is a BID? Business Improvement Districts (“BIDs”) are public-private partnerships, established under State and local laws that give Cities the power to form districts in which all businesses in the district […]
Chamber of Commerce Trumps Venice
The Pro-Business slate dominated the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC) Elections. They ran a fear and anger based campaign, corellating the homeless and criminals, claiming that the VNC had been hijacked by “radical, […]
Letter: Looks like back room deals at City Hall Planning.
Dear Free Venice Beachhead: It is high time that the corruption and good old boy back room deals are exposed. Everyone knows that Greg Shoop signs off on every VSO it is […]
REPEAL THE 80% TAX BREAK – PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE
REPEAL THE 80% TAX BREAK PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE Google, Greed and Political Complicity By Mark Lipman Let’s get right to the root of the matter … it’s greed. For the most […]
VNC Election:VCPUCC Picks.
VNC ELECTION: Arnold Springer’s Picks
Wednesday May 25th. Hi All; I received on my gate today the throwaway newsletter from Venice Town Council announcing the elections of June 5 at the Oakwood Recreation Center on California Ave and 7th […]
Business as Usual
by Mark Lipman Maybe you’ve noticed this, maybe you haven’t? A lot of very dramatic changes are happening around Venice. It seems like overnight entire neighborhoods have been transformed. Family businesses have […]
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