Tag: Zev Yaroslavsky
Fairfax High celebrates its 100th year
Festivities will take place Sept. 6 to 8 Fairfax High School opened its doors 100 years ago. It was originally designed to be a mechanical and agricultural school focusing on practical skills — a bit ironic, it would seem, seeing as (according to Fairfax High’s website) the school was poshly named after Lord Fairfax of Colonial America […]
Yaroslavsky / Braude Prop U is impactful still
As a new member of the City Council in 1975, Zev Yaroslavsky began to see the impacts of poorly planned high-rise office development, and he decided to do something about it. He led a successful initiative election campaign, with his City Council colleague Marvin Braude, to urge city voters to enact Proposition U in 1986. […]
Zev Yaroslavsky debuts book at Chevalier’s
Two days before distribution of the June issue of the Larchmont Chronicle, Larchmont Boulevard was the scene of the launch for the long-awaited memoir by local resident and resilient elected official Zev Yaroslavsky. “Zev’s Los Angeles” made its debut at a talk and signing at Chevalier’s Books on May 30. The book is an informative […]
Study Senate Bill 50
TO OUR READERS: By John H. Welborne Publisher and Editor As a public service to our readers in the Greater Wilshire, Mid-City and other neighborhoods we serve, the Larchmont Chronicle is publishing this Special Supplement. The timing relates to the May 2019 consideration — by the California State Senate — of wide-reaching legislation proposed by […]
Barbara Yaroslavsky mourned
Family, friends and community leaders throughout the Southland were shocked and saddened upon hearing of the death of Mid City West neighbor Barbara Yaroslavsky, 71, who unexpectedly died Dec. 26 during her sixth week recuperating from West Nile virus diagnosed in November. The unhappy news was learned just as this January issue of the paper […]
Ed Edelman: Los Angeles has lost a giant of a man
Ed Edelman died in September at age 85. The Larchmont Chronicle asked local resident Zev Yaroslavsky to share the eulogy he gave at the funeral. In this era, when political vulgarity is de rigueur, it is hard to imagine there was a time when political discourse could be intelligent and civil. Well, there was such […]
