Author: 2UrbanGirls

The Inglewood Today seems to not do too much fact checking prior to posting articles on their website and printing them in their paper.  First they printed the wrong date of Councilmember George Dotson’s very 1st Town Hall Meeting.   Then gets incorrect the amount of dates the Forum is…

Today’s updates on the 62nd Assembly race.  A meet and great with candidate Gloria D. Gray and folks are lambasting Autumn Burke’s recent applications to a couple of important civic groups.  **Editors note, below is an excerpt from Betty Pleasant’s weekly Soulvine column in the Los Angeles Wave Newspaper** GLORIA…

Inglewood residents are aware that Metro is bringing the Crenshaw/LAX line our way.  Not everyone is aware of the status of the project, or how to obtain a job while the project gets underway.  The Crenshaw CLC is the official communications department for the outreach to Inglewood residents.

A favorite political news blog of 2UrbanGirls focuses on the City “Clowncil” of Los Angeles, as affectionately called by Mayor Sam.   His news blog is titled “Mayor Sam’s Sister City: Home of L.A. Politics, and is one of the best for news on the City of Los Angeles.  Here is an excerpt snatched…

The residents in the City of Inglewood, are in serious need of a hospital that can accommodate trauma patients.  Inglewood residents have lacked access to a trauma center dating back to 1987 when Daniel Freeman Hospital closed its doors and in 2004 when L.A. County Supervisors voted to close Martin Luther King,…

The Inglewood Unified School District has announced the reopening of the Continuation, now known asInglewood Continuation High School, on the campus of Morningside High School. Former Inglewood High School principal, Debbie Tate, is the principal of the continuation, which has more than 80 students currently enrolled. Pupils qualify to attend…

The Black Los Angeles Young Dems (BLAYD) held a special election candidate forum at St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Mar Vista and was moderated by Dallas Fowler.  The event marked the first debate between the candidates: Christopher R. Armenta, John Jake and Sebastian Ridley-Thomas.  The event was well attended and…

The Los Angeles Archdiocese was contacted regarding allegations being circulated through numerous Catholic churches in Los Angeles.  The fliers have appeared on the windshields of cars at many of the local predominantly African-American churches in South L.A.  The L.A. Archdiocese has issued the following statement.

Election 2014 season is underway with an all-female candidate pool.  Betsy Butler, Autum Burke and Gloria Gray, are the three most viable candidates hoping to become the successor to current 62nd AD Mr. Steve Bradford. 

Woke up this morning listening to 93.5 KDAY who was speaking to a supporter of A-Man, Inc. regarding the work they are doing in Inglewood, CA. That supporter was Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas. The City of Inglewood recently agreed to sponsor a bus shuttle service for A-Man, Inc. a Louisiana based…

The Los Cerritos News recently revealed Rob Katherman’s affiliation with the “Coalition for Clean Affordable Water” with the sole purpose of influencing elections. Anjel Gonzales, former aide to newly elected Compton city councilmember Isaac Galvan, who campaigned on lowering the cities water bills, was also attached to this coalition.  

The city of Inglewood held its regular city council meeting Oct. 22 and on the agenda was approval of a contract with A-MAN, Inc. to provide shuttle service for their after school program located at 101 S. LaBrea Ave.   Why would kids need to be bussed to 101 S.…

Inglewood’s Academy Cathedral Church, in conjunction with Inglewood Unified School District advisory board member Carol Raines-Brown, held a Back 2 School “Priority Check” College Readiness & Career Day on October 19th.  The program was designed to assist students with college applicants.  Noticeably absent were representatives from local community colleges El Camino and…

Los Cerritos News is reporting they are in receipt of an audio tape which implicates CA State Assembly speaker John Perez collaborating with former Assemblyman Tom Calderon, to coerce three Maywood Mutual Water Districts (MMWD) into taking on unwanted projects or face “dissolved with a stroke of a pen.”

At a recent City of Inglewood city council meeting, held October 1st, it became public knowledge that a church bought the abandoned movie theatre located at Manchester Blvd. and 5th Ave.