Local News for Los Angeles ~ L.A. TACO https://lataco.com/category/news Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles, CA Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:31:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://lede-admin.lataco.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/cropped-FAVICON.jpg?w=32 Local News for Los Angeles ~ L.A. TACO https://lataco.com/category/news 32 32 217520893 A New Genetically Modified ‘Low THC’ Hemp Was Just Approved by the USDA https://lataco.com/new-low-thc-hemp Tue, 17 Oct 2023 19:31:18 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152584 The modified hemp plants are not available for purchase yet but when they are, they will likely appeal to hemp farmers since hemp that exceeds the .3% limit on THC can not legally be sold and must be destroyed.

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]]> 152584 Walnut Woman Gets Prison Time For Selling L.A. Homes That Weren’t Actually For Sale https://lataco.com/real-estate-scam Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:53:38 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152528 Using other people's broker's licenses, Gonzalez listed the properties on real estate websites, even though many were not on the market, and she did not have authority to list them.

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]]> 152528 Thieves Strike At Mariscos Jalisco, Stealing Both Cash and Octopus https://lataco.com/mariscos-jalisco-theft Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:30:45 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152500 The Boyle Heights-based taco truck, a favorite amongst Angelenos, attached photos that appeared to show that the locks on a door had been damaged as well as a Dodge Ram pickup truck doing the dash. 

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]]> 152500 Metro Launches New Pilot Program to Test Restrooms for Riders and Staff https://lataco.com/metro-launches-new-pilot-program-to-test-restrooms-for-riders-and-staff Fri, 13 Oct 2023 00:08:48 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152465 The transit agency partnered with a start-up company called Throne, which aims to address a lack of public restrooms. Metro added restrooms at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station on the B (Red)/D (Purple) Lines; Willowbrook/Rosa Parks station on the A (Blue)/C (Green) Lines; and the Norwalk station on the C Line for now.

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]]> 152465 L.A. City Council Designates Section of Pico Blvd as Oaxacan Corridor in Response to Leaked Racist Remarks by Former and Current Council Members https://lataco.com/oaxacan-corridor Wed, 11 Oct 2023 22:56:43 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152433 "In response to the hateful, anti-indigenous comments made last year by several elected leaders, the City Council has worked vigorously to empower and to give voice to the grievances and pain experienced by those affected communities," the motion states. "One of those impacted communities was the Oaxacan community." The Council voted 14-0 on the matter.

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]]> 152433 Rabbi Aryeh Eli Cohen Named to L.A. City Ethics Commission https://lataco.com/eli-cohen-ethics-commission Wed, 11 Oct 2023 21:25:41 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152430 Upon seeing Cohen's name, Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez said he remembered a time when they both engaged in civil disobedience. Cohen gave a short response -- "good times."

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]]> 152430 Exclusive: Top Film & TV Studios Spent Over $660 Billion on Stock Buybacks While Actors and Writers Live ‘Paycheck to Paycheck’ https://lataco.com/film-tv-studio-stock-buybacks Tue, 03 Oct 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=152178 According to economist William Lazonick stock repurchasers like Apple could certainly use the tens of billions that they spend on buybacks to pay actors and screenwriters more. “The fact [is] they’re not paying them more,” and instead they’re making the rich richer.

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]]> 152178 Is Hollywood’s Walk of Fame The World’s Worst Tourist Attraction? https://lataco.com/is-the-walk-of-fame-the-worlds-worst-tourist-attraction Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:05:16 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151847 A local news station scanned Google, TikTok, and other online reviews to cherry-pick a handful that calls the Boulevard "grubby, slightly scary... dirty, unsafe" and "one of the worst tourist attractions on the planet." We weighed in on the subject.

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]]> 151847 Riot Cops Descend As Hundreds of Punks Light a [Prop] Cop Car on Fire At Hollywood Skate Show https://lataco.com/hollywood-punk-skate-show Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:50:45 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151595 L.A.'s notorious Dead City was the only band that performed at the event, kicking their set off at 7:13 p.m. It would not last long before police appeared.

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]]> 151595 Cable T.V. Users in L.A. Caught In Dispute Over Disney-Owned Stations https://lataco.com/disney-spectrum-beef Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:40:55 +0000 https://lataco.com/?p=151540 The standoff between Charter Communications and the Walt Disney Co. that has left millions of Spectrum cable subscribers without access to ABC7, ESPN channels, FX, and National Geographic, along with other channels appears nowhere close to resolution.

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