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Aging and the Elderly

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Are Los Angeles Police Officers Disrespectful To Senior Citizens? Betty Pleasant Thinks So

    Do Los Angeles police officers need sensitivity training for talking with elderly citizens? According to longtime Los Angeles Wave columnist Betty Pleasant, the answer is a resounding "yes!" Pleasant, whom we love for her pull-no-punches journalism, complains in a May 2 column that while the LAPD h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Craig Huey, Who Earns a Living Soliciting Old People Via Junk Mail, Named "Guardian of Seniors' Rights"

    ​From the annals of chutzpah, we have news today that entertainer Pat Boone has bestowed the coveted "Guardian of Seniors' Rights award" on Craig Huey, the Tea Party candidate in next Tuesday's Congressional election.This is the same Craig Huey who makes his living by targeting direct-mail solicit ... More >>

  • Music

    June 2, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    ​From the annals of chutzpah, we have news today that entertainer Pat Boone has bestowed the coveted "Guardian of Seniors' Rights award" on Craig Huey, the Tea Party candidate in next Tuesday's Congressional election.This is the same Craig Huey who makes his living by targeting direct-mail solicit ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2011

    The White Stuff

    ​From the annals of chutzpah, we have news today that entertainer Pat Boone has bestowed the coveted "Guardian of Seniors' Rights award" on Craig Huey, the Tea Party candidate in next Tuesday's Congressional election.This is the same Craig Huey who makes his living by targeting direct-mail solicit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    David Bowie's Most LA-centric Single Gets KCRW Remixes and Its Own iPhone App

    ​One of our favorite artists just announced that he is releasing one of our favorite songs as a $2 iPhone app allowing fans to make their own remixes. David Bowie (or whoever handles his business this days--he hasn't been since in public in a long while and there are some wacky conspiracy the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Heatwave: Don't Head To Libraries For Cooling, As L.A. City Advises -- They're Closed

    ​The National Weather Service is warning Angelenos to expect "hazardous heat," with temps in the 100s inland and in the Valleys. The city of Los Angeles is doing its part -- encouraging folks who need respite from the hot weather Monday to take shelter in "cooling centers" that include "Seni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Most California Public Worker Retirees Receive Modest Pension

    Rich pensioners? Most of them aren't. ​The talk of bloated public employee pensions is everywhere, both here and nationally, not least because of the salary scandal in the city of Bell, where the recently retired city manager Robert Rizzo is set to take home millions of dollars during his...go ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 12, 2010

    WE SAY, "GO NISEI"

    Rich pensioners? Most of them aren't. ​The talk of bloated public employee pensions is everywhere, both here and nationally, not least because of the salary scandal in the city of Bell, where the recently retired city manager Robert Rizzo is set to take home millions of dollars during his...go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Libraries Can't Be Used As Cooling Centers Sunday -- Budget Cuts Are Closing Them

    ​ So the city sends out a press release today with a heat wave notice, warning residents of temperatures downtown in the mid 90s, up to 106 in the valley and up to 110 in the mountains. (Given that we were told that East Coast snowstorms "proved" global warming is a myth earlier this year by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    City Of Los Angeles To Open 'Cooling Centers' To Beat The Heat

    ​In response to a summer heat wave that has seen temperatures above the hundred-degree mark in the San Fernando Valley, the city of Los Angeles on Thursday announced it's opening "cooling centers" on the weekend. The centers will include libraries, senior citizens' facilities and park-and-rec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    Whopping Westside Development Needs To Downsize To Get City Approval

    Councilman Bill Rosendahl.​A massive Westside development will have to downsize in order to get city approval, City Councilman Bill Rosendahl told LA Weekly Thursday. After Westside community members expressed concern about the proposed Bundy Village's 21,000-car-a-day impact on West L.A. tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 130: Man Dies After Being Battered at Senior Center

    A 60-year-old man was killed after getting into a fight at a senior center in Pacoima.  View Larger Map Paramedics found Fidel Toro June 8 on the ground inside the Alicia Broadous-Duncan Multi-Purpose Senior Center, 11300 Glenoaks Boulevard. He was transported to a local hospital where he died ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Dodgers Offer Stimulus Package to Manny Club owner Frank McCourt is offering the Scott Boras-repped Manny Ramirez a $45 million deal over two years. L.A. TimesShowdown on Sunset Drive Nadya Suleman's Whittier neighbors are fed up with the invasion of their street by cigarette-butt-flicking paparazzi ... More >>

  • News

    February 19, 2009
  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Hunting Party

    Two women, two fractured American dreams

  • Calendar

    April 3, 2008

    Young@Heart Screening

    Two women, two fractured American dreams

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    Home Again

    Two women, two fractured American dreams

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Dying to Get Off Skid Row

    Downtown can be a last chance... or the last stop

  • LA Life

    September 1, 2005

    Mr. Zip

    Downtown can be a last chance... or the last stop

  • News

    July 14, 2005

    And Then There Was a Knock

    The strange detention of a Hindu Afghan grandfather and his wife

  • Columns

    August 19, 2004

    Republican Dawn?

    The strange detention of a Hindu Afghan grandfather and his wife

  • Columns

    August 15, 2002

    The World According to AARP

    The strange detention of a Hindu Afghan grandfather and his wife

  • News

    March 16, 2000

    Letters

    The strange detention of a Hindu Afghan grandfather and his wife

  • News

    December 23, 1999

    Health Care for Saints

    Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabled

  • News

    August 19, 1999

    Public Health

    Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabled

  • News

    September 17, 1998

    Gunplay

    Chief Cooke proves a soft touch

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