I pedal my way down Wilshire Boulevard on my bicycle and think of the day that the Olympics return to Los Angeles. In 2028, I will be 37 going on 38 years of age. Then I find my bus stop, wait for the one that goes up Vermont, and once it arrives board my bicycle […]
Author: J.T.
I'm a writer, editor, and photographer with a passion for community development en Los Angeles. My editing work covers a range of different subjects, while my writing focuses primarily on social welfare in the city, including education at L.A.'s public middle and high schools, public transportation planning and efficacy, housing and small business policy, voting turnout for local elections and policy, and more. My photography is similarly community-minded, focusing mostly on what makes Los Angeles home to so many working-class people from all across the U.S.A. and throughout the world. Enjoy.
L.A.’s Buses Are for Writers
I can still remember riding Metro’s 780 bus –from Los Feliz and Vermont–all the way to Pasadena City College–with my notebooks in hand, as I mused about the world I viewed through the windows. Still a teenager at the time, in true L.A. fashion I’d always take the seat all the way in the back-corner, […]
California Primary Elections, June 2018 Recap
According to the Washington Post, just over 6.9 million people in California cast a vote for the state’s June 2018 Primaries–the largest recorded in the state’s history for a midterm election–out of a total of over 19 million registered voters, to make for a 36% ‘return’ rate. However, when considering the total number of all […]
Matriarca, por Ceaser C. Tepekuyut
“La reducción de espacios para las tradiciones de mujeres y niños Indígenas y sus descendientes mestizos que han levantado esta tierra, así como nuestros ancestros también lo han hecho por milenios atreves de todo el continente americano, es una profanación. Sacar a la gente Indígena de sus hogares, y sus negocios y sustentos, es sacar […]
